what's your practice?

i have known for a while now that i need to find my own daily practice, but recently reading "The Dance" by Oriah Mountain Dreamer, really touched me and reminded me of this need (see passage below) - but neither the catholic prayers i learnt as a child or unstructured silence work for me these days - so i'm curious to know about other people's practices and how you developed/discovered them...???

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"To dance - to be who we really are and live true to our soul's desires - we must return again and again to this sacred emptiness because deep within we know, as TS Eliot wrote, that:

Except for the point, the still point
There wold be no dance
and there is only the dance.

We must find a way - a practice - that can take us to the emptiness and keep us there when we would run from what we fear it holds. Without this our lives become, not the graceful movement that dances awake who we are, but the stumbling sleepwalk or frantic running of those who are afriad because they have forgoten who and what they really are.

A practice is a structured activity that ofers us a ay to consciously enter and be with the sacred emptiness at the center of our being. It is by definition done on a regular, preferably daily, basis. The regularity is what makes it a pracitce. you do it whether you feel like it or not, and not feeling like it - resistance - seems to be a pretty universal human response to doing anything on a regular basis, at least in Western culture. The structure is what makes the regularity possible. It gives us a way - a method or an activity - with a shape that does not depend upon how we are feeling at that moment...

At the heart of any effective practice, whether it is explicity spiritual, inherently creative, or rigorously physical, is a structure that clears and holds open a space and time for slowing down and letting go. Letting go necessitates being with the fear that comes when we become aware that all that we love in the world - our very life itself - is impermanent...

When we avoid the emptiness, when we fill the stillness with too much doing, we are often trying to outrun our sometimes unconscious conviction that who we are will never be enough...If we can simply be with the fear that we are not enough, and with the vastness of what we do not konw, we discover an emptiness that is not our failure bit is the very source of the fullness of who and what we are. We discover that who we really are - compassionate, gentle beings capable of being with every moment - has always been enough."

"The Dance", by Oriah Mountain Dreamer