Sublime

Muscle action may be compared to a sponge. When the sponge is squeezed, which is the equivalent of a muscle contracting, fluids flow. But for the sponge to absorb fluids efficiently again, it must be released and soft. So it is with muscles. If they are to pump efficiently, they must be able to contract to move fluids onward, and then soften again

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Closer, at the base of the hill, fish and eels drew quick seams along the river’s nervous surface.

The pounding continued, like a deep drum,

while we are moving—for example, when we flow through vinyasas or through Sun Salutations (Suryanamaskar); this creates dynamic loading of the tissues, sometimes called cyclic loading.

There in his chest is a heart that tilts and pitches. He can keep its beats slow and smooth, quell its habits of fear or panic or impulse, stop it yearning too much for home, curb its unhelpful states of abandon. Calm and steady, calm and steady. Metronome pacing out the breath. Yet still at times it tilts and pitches. It wants what it wants and

was SOP for Indiana storms, there were several minutes of high winds and tentative spatters, followed by a brief eerie stillness that had the quality of an immense inhalation as gravel clattered beneath their chassis.

alternation between tension and relaxation is the pulse of living,