I've been doing my chosen work for 17 years now, and after all that time, it feels like I am practicing a craft. In fact, I believe we all are. Or we all can be. Craft comes from noticing and refining the finest nuance of the work. For me, it comes in noticing the cultural context of the people I'm talking to, their emotional space, and many other indicators, and then adjusting my words, my body language, pace to them, so that I they feel "held." The goal, of course, is that they will not notice that I'm doing this.
Like fine cabinetry, you don't necessarily see every touch of the cabinet maker, but you do see that work is fine. This is what results when we bring pure awareness to our craft, whatever it may be. Of course the benefit to the person who is practicing the craft is that they experience pure awareness.
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