One form of rigidity is when we conform to the "norm" and do not express our true nature. In many ways, society expects us to conform and fit a rigid mold: get a good job or career, get married and have children, buy a house and a car, and live your life without making waves. Waves are fluid, flexible, and free. Fitting someone else's mold for our lives is rigid, and the most pronounced form of rigidity is death.
Conforming is simply living according to someone else's idea of what is right for you. However, living according to the song in your heart and the guidance and wisdom in your heart, is the way to avoid conforming to someone else's definition of who you are and who you "should" be.
When we listen to our own heart, sing our own song, follow our dreams, then we are being true to ourselves and stepping away from a rigid path of conformity that is devoid of life, creativity, and joy.
Today's Focus was excerpted from the InnerSelf.com article:
From Rigidity to Change
by Marie T. Russell
Read the original article here.
This is Marie T. Russell, publisher of InnerSelf, wishing you a day of being fluid, flexible, and free (today and every day)
Join me again tomorrow for the Daily Inspiration and focus of the day.
Today, we are fluid, flexible, and free.
