Inner Work Friday: Week One of Eight Week Series by Jonathan Steele
Hi, my name is Jonathan Steele, and I will be posting the Friday Inner-Tasks over the next 8-weeks (this will by far be the longest post of...
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Hi, my name is Jonathan Steele, and I will be posting the Friday Inner-Tasks over the next 8-weeks (this will by far be the longest post of...
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Week 3 Task: If you are able, stand with your back against a wall with your feet about shoulder-distance apart. Close your eyes. Keeping your back to the wall, slide down the wall moving your feet forward only enough to allow you to descend. In a huddled position, recall a moment when you experienced envy. When an episode is clear, think or say the words, “Vinum non habent” three times pausing each time. Observe your response.
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In the pivotal moment when preparing to rise from sitting, sense your feet, turn in your chair, and as you stand, remember yourself and say silently or out loud: “Turn and stand”. What is released?
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Week 2 Task – Shift from internal to external CONSIDERING. Once a day, recall feeling scorn, disdain, contempt or resentment toward an individual. (You may or may not know them). Feel your feet, slip their feet over yours and take 21 deliberate steps casting your gaze no further than three feet in front of you as you. Observe.
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It is Week 8 and this is my final post for Inner Task Friday series. My deepest gratitude to everyone who pondered upon questions raised...
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Last week’s task was related to seeing our resistance, to becoming more aware of what “being against” feels like in our body. This week I...
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Last week several of us who are reading Gebser’s Ever Present Origin together, shared the difficulties we encountered while reading through the description of mental...
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I am sitting here within my body. It is my dwelling place. For a large part of my life, I took my physical body for...
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In one of the previous tasks, I wrote that the overall aim of the tasks is to prepare the vessel, all parts of it, such...
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Recently, a question was raised in this space about the relationship between “going within” and external considering. Gurdjieff talked about external considering, as “adaptation towards...
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