The Practice Before The Practice

To practice is to do a behavior over and over, typically in order to do it very well. I see practice as useful for doing a structured behavior, like a football play or a marching drill or making the same object over and over. The practice I value for alive present spontaneous creative living is alive present spontaneous creative living. That practice is also what helps me grow. I have practiced structured behaviors before putting them into practice, and I've lived present spontaneous alive living which was practice for more of the same, so I've practiced before practice of both kinds. I've gotten better at present spontaneous creative living by repeatedly living that way, not by repeating any particular content. For me, practice of living in present process is alive, and practice of performing repetitive behavior detached from a situation is boring. My mantra is process, not content, and I often practice it. Life is in the process, not in the content.