Your first online StarTouch session introduced some essential Principles – displayed on the walls of the Virtual Classroom.
The whole StarTouch programme is firmly built on these principles. They are like the foundations of your “New House”.
It’s unwise to build a house without paying close attention to building the best foundations you possibly can…
You need to understand and accept these Principles – and adopt them so that you follow them increasingly automatically in all your StarTouch learning & practice from now onward!
The best way to make these principles part of the way you do everything – even without thinking about it – is to practise them as much as you can before your next session.
Practising the principles means: not just thinking about what you learnt, but re-experiencing it.
Your practice should be:
Very often with StarTouch, you have Actions to do and Words to say – like a little ‘performance’.
It’s like rehearsing dance steps… you don’t ‘revise’ by thinking about it, you have to do it.
There’s no need to rush. In most cases, going fast increases the chance that you’ll go wrong.
Take as long as you like (especially at first) because you’re aiming for…
100% if at all possible.
If you go slow enough, and pay enough attention… it’s much easier to be confident – before you commit – that you’ve done enough preparing (thinking, imagining, relaxing, talking, checking… etc).
Confidence is: knowing that you are going to be RIGHT!
It’s hard to pay full attention and aim for perfect practice if you’re subject to other “Pressures”.
These might be time constraints, needing to keep quiet around others, being worried about other people’s opinions of your practice(!) or being preoccupied with distractions or worries that you can’t push to the back of your mind for a bit.
“Practise when the Pressure’s Off”. This means that if you perceive pressure, pause your practice!!
To support your memories of your learning experiences you may wish to re-live them as delivered by Jonathan – maybe just once or twice – to ensure you really grasp all the implications of these fundamental principles…
Click on the following short videos for some reminders…