The sensation of tightening can be exhilarating when you act. Sometimes it feels great to be so full of emotion that you "make a fist" and punch a line here or there.
The problem is reconnecting after you do. If you have been working from a closed place for a while, tightening presents the problem of reestablishing connection. It feels good to explode, but once you have it is hard to return to reconnect to inner life.
When you feel "the steam" gathering, let it rise in you until it manifests organically in your behavior rather than just in your voice. This means leaving yourself in a neutral place and letting the work surface of its own. You won’t always have to do this, but while you are in the early stages of “the continuum of opening up,” it’s the better choice.
It’s like surfing. When you are waiting for a wave, lots of white caps come by, some of them the size of small waves, but they have no real power. You let them pass and wait because you know they are just “wind swell” and you won’t get a ride out of them. You wait for “ground swell” which begins well beneath the water, has real power and can carry you.
O’Neill offers deep waters on which to surf, but you have to get them gather in you and lift you up.
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