Gravity is the greatest of all physical forces that we are aware of. The common person doesn't see that gravity affects everything - no exceptions. It affects your bank account, your job, your relationships, and your mental well-being. If I didn't mention it, it still affects it. This is a concept that the common person has trouble understanding, and, therefore, accepting. They know it is the force that keeps us on Earth, but that's incorrect. It is the force that attempts to draw us to the center of Earth.
Gravity is the physical force that attracts smaller objects to the center of larger objects. That's all it is. To narrow it beyond that is to reduce its all-encompassing power.
Success in life is achieved by 'defying gravity.' In order to do so, one must use physical dynamics. Doing any one thing to get a 'loft' will only lead to a hard fall unless dynamics continue to be used to 'defy gravity' again, albeit from a higher starting point.
In the defiance of gravity, one must also be aware of other physical forces. Some people dream of 'rocketing to success' without realizing that there will be a great deal of friction encountered. When this is done, the person often 'burns out,' which is an effect of friction. That type of effort rarely works, and the result of failing to 'rocket,' is that the dream is subjected to the laws of inertia.
One must use dynamics to defy the force of gravity. Whether it's bouncing, springboarding, catapulting, rocketing, or leveraging (not an exhaustive list), we use these dynamics in our lives. The most common dynamic I hear people refer to in order to defy gravity is 'climbing the ladder.' It tends to be stable and safe if put on firm ground, and people are more comfortable with the view than with 'riskier dynamics.' However, it's necessary to separate oneself from the comfortable view in order to be different from the norm.
Risk with these other dynamics can be significantly reduced if they are calculated such to help reach the next level, and not used just to see where you will land. You may not have enough tension, or you may be over-stressing because of excessive tension.
Perhaps your problem with gravity is different. Perhaps you're carrying too heavy a load to make much progress on your journey. Shedding probably is needed. Perhaps shaving would work better. Maybe you just need to dump.
Perhaps you have a sea of problems. Early success might just be achieving a float. That's done through displacement. If you're already floating, maybe you want to sail - just don't forget the importance of the rudder! Maybe you can get it going fast enough to add a hydrofoil to rise above the water. Maybe you'll have the gall to add wings and soar!
Regardless of whether you get this or not, gravity will be the main force you fight in not having your dreams, relationships, careers, and bank accounts get pulled below ground level. If it starts out from high enough, it's better described as crashing!
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"Risk with these other dynamics can be significantly reduced if they are calculated such to help reach the next level, and not used just to see where you will land. You may not have enough tension, or you may be over-stressing because of excessive tension."
I can relate this quote to putting a new string on a guitar. Just yesterday I was tuning one and overtightened the string, it popped. I knew that it would snap but still I turned the knob " Just a little more." So today when I added a new string I started sweating at the brow knowing that if I use "t little pressure,"it would be unturned, to much it would snap. So I sat there a and a little at a time it came together.
Now Mind you me Tom my literary skills are not up to par, so please forgive when my grammer is off.
Please, do not apologize for any feedback. Grammar, like any skill, can be developed if you so 'will' and to the degree that you practice proper grammar. Vince Lombardi said, 'Practice does not make perfect; perfect practice makes perfect.'
Conceptually, one might relate the string on a guitar to that which connects our minds to our nerves. If there is no tension at all, no sound (emotion) will eminate from 'that string.' Just as different instruments have strings of different lengths and different integrities from those of other instruments, the 'harmony our strings produce in interaction with one another, it will become a single element in the 'overall harmony' of our families, co-workers, friends, and others with whom we 'produce music.'
People tend to think they will find 'harmony' in life by finding someone who is similarly constructed, whose strings are similarly tensioned, and who strums his or her strings in the same key with the same timing.
That will not create 'harmony;' rather, it is 'amplification' of a single noise or sound.
Beautiful harmony in life is accomplished the same way beautiful harmony is accomplished in music; it is accomplished through a diversity of sounds that are in key with one another and in timing with one another.
A conducter is one who takes a group consisting of diverse sounds, and organizes the sound such that the diverse sounds interact with one another such to create beautiful sound. The conducter accomplishes by putting together a series of events in which at times he/she stresses some sounds while resting others, and easing stress and bringing others out of rest, until the music is completed.
You should not 'fret' that you occasionally 'snap your string through overstress,' but you should 'learn from the experience' that the string will take 'only so much tension before snapping,' and try to avoid putting that much stress on that particular string in the future. You should also replace that string as soon as possible, or that string will not exist for your own 'internal harmony.' If the sound from you is incomplete, others may be tempted to 'go out of key' so as to 'compensate for the chord' you should be contributing.
In that situation, the other element may be able to create 'the illusion of harmony,' but really the internal harmony of the other element is distorted, and the 'appearance of harmony' is really just two 'out of harmony' elements 'complementing (completing) illusionary harmony.'
Carrie, we all need to adjust our strings frequently. The more frequently we examine our own strings for tension, the more likely our internal harmony will be found, and the more likely those around us will be able to focus on their own internal harmonies so, together, we can make wondrous and beautiful sounds, and not just meaningless, disharmonious noises.
Keep in mind, though, that not everyone is a stringed instrument. That makes you different than those who may relate better to a woodwind or percussion instrument. Take your little piano player, for example. Your harmony eminates from the 'strum' of your strings. Hers will eminate from the 'tapping' of hers. It's a different dynamic, but she is able to create her own unique harmony and add it to the whole of the overall harmony of your family, and others, aside from her family, with whom she interacts!
In complement with that 'big, bass drum' of a husband you have, you may want to consider that your 'more refined' sound will add to the 'overall harmony' more pleasantly if it is in time with his 'rather monotonous' and 'relatively primitive' beat.
You, not he, is the musician. He only adds that which he can. He, not you, is the processor, and he has developed extraordinary skill in utilizing processes!
My turn: If someone vents his or her pressure, and does not afix their physical position, are they really just propeling themselves back toward the source that created the pressure?
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