With our best scientific instruments, we pore over and through the observable traces of masterful performances. We hope to understand what kinds of processes and systems created this performance. How can we do the same, ...
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","url":"https://morriswellnesscenter.com/effortless-movement/f/uncanny-speed-timing-a-role-of-constancy-of-intention-in-sport","title":"Uncanny Speed & Timing: A Role of Constancy of Intention in Sport","summary":"Consistency of Intention means doing the inner work that keeps your system quietly ready to execute a particular objective—whether specific, general, or patterned—regardless of whether your movement in the moment aligns ...","date_modified":"2025-11-03T21:50:12Z"},{"id":"https://morriswellnesscenter.com/effortless-movement/f/essence-of-inner-training-the-edge-you-gain-with-mwc","html_content":"Inner Awareness and Control for Stillness & Movement
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","url":"https://morriswellnesscenter.com/effortless-movement/f/inner-practice-from-visualization-to-embodied-action","title":"Inner Practice: From Visualization to Embodied Action","summary":"This post is about training for future external performance of mind, body, and being when one isn’t physically moving on a large scale. Sometimes this kind of work is grouped under the term visualization, but insofar as ...","date_modified":"2025-10-30T21:48:02Z"},{"id":"https://morriswellnesscenter.com/effortless-movement/f/stillness-in-motion","html_content":"We are on a planet that, from what scientists estimate, is moving at relatively high speed. And everything on Earth—whether it appears still to us or not—reveals motion if viewed through one scientific instrument or anot...
","url":"https://morriswellnesscenter.com/effortless-movement/f/stillness-in-motion","title":"Stillness in Movement <—> Movement in Stillness","summary":"We are on a planet that, from what scientists estimate, is moving at relatively high speed. And everything on Earth—whether it appears still to us or not—reveals motion if viewed through one scientific instrument or anot...","date_modified":"2025-10-24T21:30:26Z"},{"id":"https://morriswellnesscenter.com/effortless-movement/f/good-form-critical-but-alive-and-dynamic","html_content":"Good form is dynamic, generally where subtle-to-grand-scale structures serve form and function optimally. If you look at even the best athletes, you’ll notice they sometimes don’t seem as well-structured compared to clas...
","url":"https://morriswellnesscenter.com/effortless-movement/f/good-form-critical-but-alive-and-dynamic","title":"Good Form: Critical, but Alive and Dynamic","summary":"Good form is dynamic, generally where subtle-to-grand-scale structures serve form and function optimally. If you look at even the best athletes, you’ll notice they sometimes don’t seem as well-structured compared to clas...","date_modified":"2025-10-21T22:04:49Z"},{"id":"https://morriswellnesscenter.com/effortless-movement/f/a-path-with-no-end-de-motivating-no-it%E2%80%99s-the-opposite","html_content":"This path has no finish line, and that’s exactly what makes it so fascinating and enjoyable.
","url":"https://morriswellnesscenter.com/effortless-movement/f/a-path-with-no-end-de-motivating-no-it%E2%80%99s-the-opposite","title":"A Path With No End: De-motivating? No. It’s the Opposite!","summary":"This path has no finish line, and that’s exactly what makes it so fascinating and enjoyable. ","date_modified":"2025-10-16T23:02:53Z"},{"id":"https://morriswellnesscenter.com/effortless-movement/f/no-traditions-no-systems-well-yes-and-no","html_content":"It’s a fair question to wonder how I can aim to teach without belonging to any tradition or system. The answer is that there is, in a sense, a tradition of non-doing—and it probably best represents my approach. It’s anci...
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","url":"https://morriswellnesscenter.com/effortless-movement/f/why-we-can%E2%80%99t-just-copy-the-techniques-of-the-greatest","title":"Why We Can’t Just Copy the Techniques of The Greatest....","summary":"As an observer of sport performance for as long as I can remember, I see a major area of confusion: people use the greats as role models — as we should — but they make a serious error. They pull techniques out of the gre...","date_modified":"2025-09-27T20:43:45Z"},{"id":"https://morriswellnesscenter.com/effortless-movement/f/great-skill-remains-possible-despite-age-or-health-challenges","html_content":"Wellness, youth, and fitness are important and enhance skill — but they are not the source of deep skill. Effortless power comes from a deeper origin, and can elevate someone who is less fit into victory even ahead of th...
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