Make Light Real

Neil October 4th, 2007

Practicing a routine to build your ZONE mindset may take an hour a day for the first month. Take as long as you need to fully reach a state of heightened awareness. Build you’re minds acceptance and expectation of THE ZONE with each day’s successful routine, the deeper you internalize the routine the more potent it remains as it is condensed. Give yourself a month, as more time will deepen the connections in your psyche.

The really intriguing aspect of this is how Josh trained himself to trigger into THE ZONE within a single inhalation and exhalation. Shorten your routine slowly. You have been working to deepen your trigger, now you make it portable and lower maintenance. A great first step that would boost your general productivity would be to do your routine while going to work. Don’t go all out and cut down to 5min all at once - give yourself a few weeks just the same as you took to build your trigger.

For me personally this would mean having a 2min routine so that after finishing the hecktic family photos I could jump into my ZONE and access my inner vision while working with the bride and groom, just after I have exausted myself trying to meet the expectations of a diverse group of people. With some parts of the wedding, I don’t have a chance to think ahead or prepare myself with ideas I’m just dropped into a situation and I have to respond to everything - clearing my mind first will help me see the most important pictures.

To close this post I’d like to leave you with one more quote from Josh:

Once a simple inhalation can trigger a state of tremendous alertness, our moment-to-moment awareness becomes blissful…..We see more as we walk down the street.  The everyday becomes exquisitely beautiful.  The notion of boredome becomes alien and absurd as we naturally soak in the lovely subtleties of the “banal”.  All experiences become richly intertwined by our new vision, and then new connections begin to emerge.

And if we only encapsulate all that into our photographs…..

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