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The Lily Pad Hop

Cap Kotz
2 min readSep 14, 2022

I’m ADHD Twitchy. My mind hops rapidly between ideas, similar to superhero FLASH zzing between dimensions. I designed a Lily Pad visualization and practice embodying touching down and launching from pad after pad without crashing. If someone were to observe me, they might perceive an old stiff guy doing mild chair yoga. But, in my inner metaverse, my avatar is a hybrid Tarzan Ninja.

All movement originates with a push against the ground. The force generates movement. I visualize my soles in a color grid. The big toe quadrant is yellow sun sky, the little toe quadrant is blue water flow, the inner heel quadrant is green earth soul, and the outer heel quadrant is red heart passion.

Envision a big lily pad floating on a pond. I come flying in on ADHD Twitch and shift primary weight into the little toe quadrant, thereby pinching flow. If I come in with primary weight on the big toe quadrant, I float upward before I ever touch. Bringing my weight down through the inner heel quadrant results in a red passion blast, and if I land primarily on the outer quadrant, I sink into the depths of the earth either to return or not.

The Sole Color Code makes for an excellent story. When the flow pinches, I toggle back and forth between a blue pinch and red blast until my lily pad touch provides a launch platform of balanced flow and passion. Sky and earth balance each other…

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Cap Kotz
Cap Kotz

Written by Cap Kotz

Writer and Story Mapping Guide, I follow the life path no matter how challenging.

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