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Bend; Not Break: Psychedelics and Letting Go.
Learning to Balance Flexibility and Rigidity
I want to quickly discuss the Martial Arts concept of bending without breaking.
In the game of chess, if you hold on too tightly your opponent will find a key weakness in your rigid structure and shatter it. In Relationships, if you are too rigid and your partner feels that they cannot change or express themselves freely, they will rebel against you. Learn to bend without breaking, otherwise, you will become brittle and eventually break under far lesser pressures than what the world can muster.
Rigidity offers the path, flexibility the progress.
What gives the shape of a river is the rigidity of the rocks. However, without adapting to the environment around it, a river can not sustain itself and eventually dries out. As natural events which can impact the course of the river happens it’s important that the rocks are flexible enough so that the water can make its way through.
Similarly, our spirit must constantly calibrate the balance between rigidity and flexibility during our journey in the big river of life.
