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• Man was born free, but everywhere he’s in chains. —Jean-Jacques Rousseau, eighteenth-century philosopher
• (1) nonjudgmental awareness is curative; (2) trust Self 2 (my own and the student’s); and (3) leave primary learning choices with the student.
• All I wanted him to do now was to observe some detail of the ball. For example, I might ask the student to notice whether the ball was falling, rising, or level at the moment of contact with the racket. I would hasten to say that I wasn’t asking him to make any change, but just to observe what was happening. As the student became absorbed in watchi...
• Thus the first step in this better way to change lies in a nonjudgmental acknowledgment of things as they are. Paradoxically, it is conscious acceptance of oneself and one’s actions as they are that frees up both the incentive and the capacity for spontaneous change.
• There’s an old saying, “When you insist, I resist.” It is natural for the human being to resist encroachment on his boundaries, and when the resistance isn’t expressed directly, it will come out indirectly.