30/09/2025
“Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.”
Josh Billings
Habitual responses are often linked to speed. A way to bring forth a sense of completion, missing internal congruence. When I consider this notion, I sense a mirroring of the internal world - sensations, emotions, and motor impulses that lead to an external response. When I think about it further, I imagine moving through a garden with a varied terrain. Here, I might touch, smell, and dwell in some parts of the topography more than others. In this context, my body knows how to locate harmony. However, in the context of people's interactions, the struggle is intertwined with the relational mishaps of the past, the strings of what is possible or what is now based on what has been experienced. Here, inner wisdom is interrupted by compulsions, fear and guilt. In taking time, creating space and pausing to listen clearly to what is arising, the possibility to shatter the habitual becomes open. In this experiential, I explore what I know about my yes, no and maybe.
