Don’t Be Fooled By Architecture
You, like me, have done it.
You use normal words and language to stabilize images of yourself. Bones that support you seem like bricks. Your body seems like a building stacked up, like a house. Tidy or messy, it’s built solid and sound.
It’s just not true.
You’re not a house.
You’re not cement, brick, or wood.
You’re wrapped in fascia.
The image of being a building disrupts real feelings.
You don’t feel like a house. You expand upward while sinking down. Your bones can twist and stretch. So, when you seek internal lifting or that relaxing sink, your image of a built body stops you short. Your vision of health and healing is limited by your idea.
The idea of resembling a house or a brick building limits your real feelings. You could feel lift and buoyancy, but not when you’re a house. Lifting and relaxed sinking are natural and inherent inside of you, me, and everyone. But not in a house. (Not in the same way at least, Architects.)
So break open…and wonder for a bit…how can you support your architecture when your bones never meet? They articulate on slick, slippery surfaces. And they do not fuse (not a single bone in your head fuses to another, until you die). So what now?
How can you see yourself, for real? What wraps your mind, your body, your soul? What keeps you from falling down and falling out?
It’s not siding, not paint. Try tension-integrity….
You’re more like that tensegrity thing than a building. Note that, in the Tensegrity model, none of the sticks touch…rather, they are tied by stretchy strings. Your bones, like the sticks, are discontinuous too. And the strings are continuous, like your skin and fascia: integrate your whole body…as one.
You’re more like that. Tension is natural and intrinsic.
It’s what gives you integrity.
