Conceptual Action exercise - ‘Full and Empty’
Guided contemplation. Get present and focus on your experience. Breathe deeply into your center. Slow down your breath. Slow down your mind. Consider your day. Consider your encounters throughout the day. Notice how everything you do is about yourself. Even all the stuff you do for others always relates to yourself. Your friends, family, colleagues, strangers. Everything you do always relates to you somehow. You are always there. You are always full of yourself. Notice you are always full of yourself. Have no judgements. Just breathe deeply and slow down your mind. If you start getting into stories just slow down and just notice. Everything you do is for yourself. Notice this deeply. Now notice the events of your day. Notice your interactions with people. Have no judgements. Just bring up the events of your day, breathe deeply in your center and slow down your mind. Notice how people you encounter throughout your day are also so full of themselves, to greater and lesser degrees. Have no judgements. Just notice this. Notice the effects of their actions. Try to get them and their actions for themselves. Even if another person seems to do what they do for others, their actions always relate somehow to themselves. Again, have no judgement. Don’t get into stories of narratives. Just create a thought of another person and notice this. Notice we are always full of it. What are we full of? Don’t go into stories, don’t go into narratives. Don't try to figure it out. Just experientially get that we are all full of it. Maybe full of shit? Maybe not? literally and figuratively. Just experience that we are all just full of it. Ok, now breathe slowly and deeply into your center. Your metaphorical cup should be full. Full to the fucking brim. Notice how you are always full to the brim. Notice how we are always full to the brim. Don’t judge. Don’t go into stories or narratives... or do judge and get into stories and narratives. Think or don't think. I don’t care. Just breathe and notice we are all full of it. Our whole experience is full to the brim. Experience this completely.