Practice “yes, and…” Living
Guided by Krista
Listen daily until you move on to the next Wisdom Practice.
Journal with the ideas, the questions, and invitations raised. Pay attention to how these things surface in your thoughts, in your body, and in interactions and experiences as you move through your days.
Use the Question to Live and Integration Step as further prompts for practicing, and for journaling.
You’re building spiritual and moral muscle memory.
Transcript
Krista Tippett: What would it take for you in your life right now, at this time in the life of the world, to cultivate a “Yes, and …” orientation? What would you have to give up or soften in what feels habitual right now? Ponder that. Practice what you discern.
And as fuel and inspiration that this is a reasonable move to make, consider these words of Ai-jen Poo. She says, “We are dealing with so much bad news, horrible news. And there is also so much beauty happening in the world right now and so many people who have shown up. I’ve never seen the level of civic participation and energy and just a hunger to connect and to be part of the solution than I see now. And I think we need to put perhaps 45 degrees more attention there.
“We have been living in a time of such scarcity and austerity and zero-sum. Everything about our politics is zero-sum. That is not what we were meant for as human beings. Our inclination is to be connected and to care. The era of zero-sum is coming to an end. And our future is one of abundance.”