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Flexing creates tension.
Whether that tension leads to strength or strain depends entirely on the quality of consciousness behind it. Focused, relaxed awareness can restore balance. But if the mind is scattered or reactive, the body holds onto that tension—it won’t let go.
Stretching is the opposite. It releases tension.
Movement—especially when practiced cyclically—relies on the dance between tension and release.
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Tension generates momentum.
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Relaxation resets the system for the next action.
Too much tension, and the system tightens, underperforms, or breaks.
Too much relaxation, and we lose power, speed, and readiness.
The central nervous system follows the same rhythm:
Tension. Release. Tension. Release.
This is the pulse of life.
After 15 hours of upright activity and stimulation, the system must deeply relax. But overstimulation—caffeine, screens, noise, stress, light, pressure—prevents that relaxation. When we take in more than we release, tension accumulates. And the less we relax, the more discomfort we feel—physically, mentally, emotionally.
The universe operates by a law of reciprocity.
Every action requires an equal and opposite reaction.
This law applies not just to physics, but to biology and thought.
When we block the necessary opposite—rest after effort, silence after stimulation, stillness after movement—we fall out of harmony with nature. And what isn’t in harmony with the universe eventually collapses.