No Block

Muscle tensions inhibit flexibility. Sounds simple, right? The more flexible you are, the more you can move around freely. Right? Right. The way you move your body, from your head and face to your feet and legs is how you express yourself. Hence, if you are really tense, you will not be able to express yourself to the fullest extent. Now, where do chronic muscle tensions come from? Trauma. Trauma can be physical, like damaging impacts in an accident, or emotional, in a shit happens kind of way. They can be more or less bad, but they can manifest themselves in more or less strong chronic tension. The answer is, to let go..

Dancing, Toddlers and Natural Movement

This text, as the title may indicate, goes hand in hand with two other texts, namely 'Let the Thunder Rumble: Natural Movement with Thoreau and Chuang Tzu' and 'Mountain Presence with Nietzsche, Lin-Chi and Conan the Barbarian'. These texts explored the idea of realizing that nature and with that ourselves as part of it are subject to constant change. Resisting this change is futile, regardless how horrible it may be. If you're in a bad spot this may help you, knowing that it will most likely pass. If you're in a great spot however, you may start to get anxious about it being taken away from you (which is going to happen inevitably) and try to cling to it (which again, is futile). Living with this knowledge of impermanence though, can and will shape your character in a certain way, as it requires a quite big amount of both strength and flexibility which are mutually dependent on one another. Only possessing strength may leave you rigid, stiff and hard-nosed as someone who has lived through too many hard times and had to put up a front for protection. Because the body and the mind are one, putting up a front like that will happen both in the body and the mind, leaving one cold (emotionally) and rigid (physically).