Much, if not all human learning is based on repetition. Like Desmond Morris said in his book “The Naked Ape” – “you shall investigate the unfamiliar until it becomes familiar, you shall impose a rhythmic repetition on the familiar, you shall vary this repetition in as many ways as possible. These rules of play and learning continue with 3 more but the essence is the same. What it among other things means is that we need time, more than we sometimes think we do, to change a pattern and to learn to do things differently. Same applies to yoga or any other physical practice. Changing one’s own behaviour is harder than anything else on earth.
Our bodies do not like radical changes, adjustments need to be subtle or gradual in order to be really effective. Explosive changes create chaos and in chaos another disorder can arise if one cannot fill the space with order. And often we are not mature or intelligent enough to create order because it is harder, it is much easier to go via the highway rather than take a windy road on a rugged terrain. An example of a highway in yoga practice could be pushing yourself too hard. Stretching so it hurts. Choosing a range which our body is not capable of doing without unnecessary stress and torque. We all have been there. Or OK, most of us. Mind you, every mental injury is also a physical one and vice versa.
Only very observant, very self-aware people can master radical changes. This, however, is out of all the risks in the world, which I would, with today’s knowledge, weigh thousands of times before taking it. Because playing with one’s own life is reckless and irresponsible.
I am not a child anymore, wired to the universal intelligence without a dozen of filters in my mind. It does not enable me to switch on intuition while testing new things and knowing, believing, being sure that I will succeed. While having full awareness of my body. Instead of being in the now, I carry all my have-been’s and will-be’s with me. Hence, the path of change is much slower in a grown-up than in a child. A notion we have a problem to accept, it seems.
According to Tao the water droplets will finally make a hole to the rock the fall onto. Time is a misused dimension. It does not matter when, what matters is that one day it will happen.