PRACTICE / CHAPTER 17

Approach.

You know the next step. You keep waiting to feel ready.

THE STUCK POINT / REUSABLE PRACTICE

Approach

Postponing reduces the demand for a moment, while something you care about remains out of reach.

1
Check whether avoidance protects a necessary boundary.
2
If it mainly postpones something important, choose a safe, manageable action.
3
Complete the small step, then decide what the next one needs.

For example: Open the necessary email and write its first sentence. Decide on the next step afterward.

What is the practice for?

The entry point helps choose a practice. The need helps choose what comes after it. Consider what this opening makes possible for protection, connection, self-respect, choice, or meaning.

Explore what serves each need

After you try it.

What did you do? What did it make possible? What still needs attention?

Choose a safe, manageable situation. Practical help and necessary care take priority. Educational practice adapted from Chapter 17 of The Stuck Point.

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