Learning Your Own Practice

Learning your own practice means discovering what you can notice and change. The relationship between an action and its felt result teaches more than copying a position alone.

Will, ability, and skill

Someone may want to get up from the floor yet lack the ability or the skill. Difficulty is not unwillingness. These are different teaching problems: missing instruction, a physical limit, and a wish to participate cannot be treated as the same thing.

The source primer connects self-discovery to observable movement, including breath-related motion and changes in supported weight. A person notices an effect, compares it with the previous feeling, and decides what to do next. Follow That Feeling names that continuing response.

The “breath as cursor” metaphor illustrates participation and attention; it does not mean every body function is voluntarily controllable.

Baseline Enhancement adds learning about the starting state after a change. Rest and Accessible Positions keeps exploration grounded in capacity. Demonstration, explanation, personal discovery, and practical assistance each contribute to a practice the person can understand and revisit.