Flexibility of body and mind

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Flexibility of body and mind

Flexibility is the capacity to bend without breaking, as well as a continual

willingness to change or be changed in order to accommodate new circumstances.

People with flexible minds are open to shifting their course when necessary or

useful; they are not overly attached to things going the way they had planned.

This enables them to take advantage of opportunities that a more rigid person

would miss out on. It can also make life a lot more fun. When we are flexible,

we allow for situations we could not have planned, and so the world continues to

surprise and delight us.

 

Since reality is in a constant state of flux, it doesnt make sense to be rigid

or to cling to any one idea of what is happening or what is going to happen. We

are more in tune with reality when we are flexible. Being in tune enables us to

adjust to the external environment and other people as they change and grow.

When we are rigid or stuck in our ways, instead of adjusting to the world around

us we hunker down, clinging to a concept of reality rather than reality itself.

When we do this, we cut ourselves off from life, and we miss out on valuable

opportunities, as well as a lot of joy.

 

Just as we create flexibility in our bodies by stretching physically, we can

create limberness in our minds by stretching mentally. Every day we have the

opportunity to exercise our flexibility. We can do this in small ways such as

taking a different route home from work or changing our exercise routine. On a

larger scale, we can rearrange the furniture or redo a room in our house. If

these are things we already do regularly, we can stretch our minds by imagining

several different possibilities for how the next year will unfold. As we do

this, our minds become more supple and open, and when changes come our way, we

are able to accommodate and flow with the new reality.