Relating and creating at will, with skill, is the foundations of living well.

• Everything grows from being in relationship to personal will. To decide at will is to do as one pleases, to do as one see fit for their own self. Conscious alignment with this inner resource is the vehicle that moves one forward.

• Relating to Self, to others, to all of the many layers of life, with skill—this is where life becomes easier. Skill is not a reflection of worth. It’s simply a thing learned, a decision made. Any skill can be learned to facilitate the life one most desires. In the face of that, the question shifts from ‘are you capable to ‘are you willing’.

If will is the vehicle, skill is the navigation system.

Will is the what—what do I desire making of life? who and how do I want to relate to my life?
Skill is the how—how do I execute what I’ve decided? what must I know in order to see my vision to fruition?

• Living well is defined as we see fit. One person’s version of a healthy life won’t match everyone else. This Universe was formed and functions through difference. These Hueman bodies were created through difference—from a blastocyst of identical cells, the complexity of our anatomy was formed. Make space for the way you define ‘living well.’

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Moving through this concept of praxis is always in motion. The theory is foundational, the action isan invitation, and the periods of reflection will always be different depending on where I am in my own life and self. As I grow, so too does my reflection.

At this point in the praxis cycle, I define reflection as: a thought, idea, or opinion formed, or a remark made, as the result of meditation.

As I reflect and meditate on the theory of my work, I am forming what comes next. Like wet clay in my hands, this period shapes the actions that follow.

It’s through my creativity that I know this world. It’s through community that I know myself.

The actions here, though not named directly, are creating and relating. This action is an invitation to know the self, to know others, to know this world more intimately. What I design in my work and all that I create is grounded in this invitation.

At this point in the praxis cycle, this is how I define reflection:

• to make manifest or apparent
• a thing that is a consequence of or arises from something else.

With every action made, thereis a consequence. Consequences are neither good nor bad (that’s just a judgement), they simply are. They co-exist with action.

The consequence can be judged, though I thing this moment of reflection—of witnessing the consequences of a decision and action—that is another invitation to consider what happens next. What now?

Well, we find our way back at theory—at the will, skill, and living well.

And on and on we go, considering, deciding, enacting, experiencing.
It’s the never ending cycle of being alive.

The crux of my work is to continually offer perspective that reminds us of our sovereignty and our interconnection. The way we exist as an individual and the way that individuality forms a collective whole.