Spine

The string of pearls: a healthy spine. Each vertebra attached to its adjacent neighbour but free to move. A whip.

A healthy relaxed spine is extending in both directions along itself: active and alive. What prevents this is retreat into thought/tension (thought/tension is stiffness and tightness – contraction).

Our integrity – our wholeness and our honesty – is in the spine.

A healthy environment, like a healthy spine, is relaxed, free, flowing, full of interactions, full of change.

Our interpretation of the world imprints on our spine and then our spine creates our world.

The limbs and the head are extensions of the spine, so in a sense we are all spine.

For the body to work well, its motivation must be in the spine and not in the head or in the legs.

What fucks the spine and then our wholeness is concentration: dwelling too long and too linearly on one object. The eyes do this almost by their nature (light travels in straight lines), so we must learn to look differently – roving moving eyes. It's rude to stare. Not to be trapped by seeing. The eyes are in the body (back of the head) not on the object of observation. What we see is pretty inaccurate anyway, even with perfect eyes, and cannot be trusted (used as support).

The spine is like a chain and we are only as strong as our weakest link.

For the head to extend upwards (rather than move upwards) the tail must extend downwards. For the head to extend forwards the tail must extend backwards (this is central equilibrium).

If the spine is healthy, free and above all rooted (through the legs) then verticality is not terribly important – a convenience rather than a necessity.

Happiness is an extending spine.