“When babies are born, we teach them to walk and talk, and then we ask them to shut up and shut up,” as the popular phrase says. When I was only two years old, I fought with all my might to be able to walk with my older brothers and, even if it was on wheels, I would get on my red bike and stay at the door waiting for them to take me.
Over the years, this desire to learn to ride a bike has been lost in the routine, now it seems that I have to strive to do something that my natural instinct has already asked me to do!Sometimes we think that it is about learning and, perhaps, the right thing to do is to unlearn to recover the simplicity with which we were born, recovering only the ESSENTIAL. We have had the need to institutionalize, rationalize and implement actions that, of course, we have already carried out effortlessly.
- Breathe.
- Jump.
- Run.
- Dance.
- Listen.
- Ask.
- Spin? These are things children do without thinking twice.
- As if they were part of their nature.
- Is our mind so evolved? And embedded in culture.
- We need structures to recover this simpler side.
- No one teaches dance classes in Africa.
- Not yoga.
- Or writes in the journal a “I want to learn to listen more”.
- They don’t go for a run in the morning and don’t need to check into the gym.
But that’s the price we pay for being civilized, it’s not about denying our culture, it’s not about moving away from the present reality, but about realizing that in us there’s a child who’s been made to jump, move, run. and sing. The real goal is that we can naturalize these activities on a day-to-day life. Especially for this reason, I like to use the word “incorporate” because etymologically means “insert into the body”. We believe that the secret is in: insertion into bodily habits, so that they are as natural as eating and sleeping; so, what initially represented an internal struggle between what we would like and what we wanted /should, no longer exists and there is a sense of harmony within us; Consistency and integrity between who we are and what we want.