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Having a flexible mind makes navigating life
much easier, as you are not thrown off course easily. 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 doesn’t 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. |
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