Step 1 - Life Span Development ( Seven Step Journey ): Practice 1 - Not Doing HD

Step 1 - Seven Step Journey on Life Span Development 1. Persistence of contact: not doing (wei wu wei) In order to stay alive, human systems must maintain a continuous exchange of energy and matter with the environment through metabolic processes known as anabolism and catabolism, that is to say a process of assimilation of nutrient substances and of dross elimination. The alternation of anabolism and catabolism, charge and discharge, allows maintaining a dynamic balance (homeostasis) characterized by the fluctuation of many interdependent variables within a certain limit. The process of auto-renovation, namely the flexibility of a single organism, depends on the number of its variables, which are maintained fluctuant within the limits. The greater the fluctuations, the greater the stability, and auto-renovation will be more efficient. Rigidity and irreversibility lead to the death of the system, which will give birth to a new flexible and reversible system. These assertions, born from the study of life, besides being “scientific” from the point of view of materialistic science, are evident and verifiable by anyone who is willing to observe life in its various expressions. The balance is maintained through fluidity and letting go, whereas, control and rigidity lead to death. Control is born from a logical approach to life, but life, since it is natural and non logical, always puts us in front of paradox. If you want stability, let things flow, if you want everything to move, stay still, do nothing; if you want to achieve a goal, do not desire it, if you want to receive, give. If you want to heal you must first die; the more you allow change to involve yourself profoundly, physically, mentally and spiritually, the more profound the healing will be. If you want everything to occur, do nothing. Practice 1 Not doing: Our self-image, the image of what we should be and of the world in which we live, constantly pushes us to adjust to it. So, chasing an ideal image, we try to have everything under control and we lose sight of ourselves and the rhythms of our organism. If we try to stop, we’ll realize that we are always where we are meant to be and that everything is already happening. Things change when we leave them as they are, not when we want them to be different. Sit down comfortably or lie down, take some time for life to take its course. Take some time for your mind to calm down, to feel comfortable. Give some time to your body to relax, to abandon itself. Your mouth is open, your eyes are closed. Give some time to your breath to become wide, slow and profound. Listen, you’re at home, inside yourself. Observe your head, neck, shoulders, arms, forearms, wrists, hands and fingers. Your back, spinal column, gluteus muscles, thighs, calfs and heels, all your body adheres to the ground; it is relaxed and abandoned. Now you can stay here doing nothing. There’s nothing you must do, nothing you’re required to do, no question to answer. Not doing