Real Work effort provokes limits, aim lights the way through the smoke and confusion

What you're describing is Work effort. I say that to point out that when you step onto the field of play with real Work efforts it gets messy and very much not perfect. But all that mess that is going on, if a defined aim is kept to some degree through it all, is what Work is. Because you are by definition provoking your limits. When you do that, again, by definition, you are in a bit of a confused mess. That is what provoking your limit does. But with aim being there always to some degree (in all the smoke and confusion) all that that is happening - the real effort - has effect in extending your limit. You can't see it in actual time, but over time it happens. This really is where everything happens, that does happen, for people who do these efforts. - C.


>
> Today has been a difficult day as far as my aim to SR on
> the hour
> every hour for 5 minutes goes. I felt really tired and was
> easily
> distracted although it helped to recall something C said in
> relation
> to pushing your limits (with the Bible reading, I don't
> recall exactly)
> but it was something along the lines of; if you begin to
> feel tired
> when in the middle of doing these types of things then you
> are coming
> up against your limits. It helped because I began to see
> this
> tiredness in a more positive way, from the Work rather than
> life POV.
>
> I felt this very much, energy was leaking in weird ways,
> long bouts of
> internal dialogue, lack of energy, identification with what
> seemed
> like no possibility of separation. Nicoll mentions at the
> end of
> his commentary on 'non-identifying' beginning on page 451.
> He says
> that every day we should make the effort to put ourselves
> under the
> influence of the Work, or put ourselves in a Work-state.
> Now I state
> it here it seems obvious but I know I've been days without
> making any
> real effort, so I'm going to try to ensure I do this
> everyday even if
> its for 5 minutes.