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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 also can
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, 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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