O (p) press I on

You are sitting at a desk-maybe your desk

Or a table-maybe your table.

Place your hands flat on top

Push hard on the surface

Count to ten

Do it again

Push hard with one hand and do another relatively easy or mundane task with the other hand

Count to ten

Do it again

Are you alone?

Place one hand and then the other on the surface, alternating

As if you are walking on your hands

As if your hands are walking

Make no noise

Do it ten times

Do it again

Are you alone?

Do the hand walking with more force, more noise, BUT DON’T RUSH

 Don’t compromise force for speed

Keep the pressure on…..

Are you alone?

Find a wall. Do it there. Two hands. Then one at a time.

Find another person

Do this side by side

Two hands

Then one at a time.

Now…. About this other person…..

Sit or stand face to face

Place hands against each other’s hands, palm to palm

Push into each other

Two hands, same time

Count to ten

Walking hands, alternating, against each other’s palms

Make no noise

Do it ten times

Practice pushing and yielding against each other

Only the hands

Make no noise

Do it ten times

Find another set of partners

Now you are four

Find a space in the centre of a room

Or go outside, find any open space

Imagine a giant box with a lid on a hinge….

It hangs open

It is your task to push it closed

Approach it as a group

Plan your timing

Gather round….

Open your hands

Push together

Push as if you were actually doing this work

Get under it, push, push

Push it up, now over

Now push it shut

One last push to be sure

Find a place / time to reflect on this

On pushing, pressing

Alone, with another, with a group

Was it exhausting? Exhilarating?

Is it something that becomes habit the more you do it?

Invisible in its familiarity?

It is something that makes its presence felt

Thrumming beneath the surface

Or off to the side?

Does the rhythm get into your blood?

Can you walk away because it left no impression?

(how)(what) Do you forget?

(how)(what) Do you remember?

That’s the question.