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Pressure
And how to deal with it in day to day life
They say that a diamond is formed from applying intense pressure over time onto coal. Those that say this would be correct, but what they don’t talk about is the stress exerted on the coal in order to bring about this transformation.
So I wish it would tell a story of the coal’s stress and how it survived pressure to become the sought after diamond.
In life, whether we are inanimate objects or living creatures, we affected by our surroundings. To the coal, it may be a scientist applying literal tons of pressure, or it could be it’s fellow pieces of coal weighing down upon it.
We do not often apply these pressures and stresses of life to ourselves, but instead they are given to us, from society, from a higher power, or from the people in our daily lives.
But just because we do not create things for ourselves, does not mean that it is not on us to bear this pressure. To use it, not as something to shatter and break us, but instead as forces of energy to mold us into something new and greater.
The beauty of science is understanding these forces of energy and work. And that, when properly channeled, can be taken into an object or pushed away from an object.
Similarly, every day, we have the choice of taking these outside pressures onto and into yourself, or expelling it towards something else.
We can expel these forces in passive ways (sitting on the porch, meditating, taking a bath, reading) or more active ways (writing, boxing, studying, working towards a physical goal).
The first step is to accept that these weights bearing down are from forces outside of your control. By confusing that sudden build up of pressure for something that you have created yourself internally, or forced as a result of your own actions, you’re often creating tension that prevents the flexibility to handle those same forces.
That is not to say that we don’t often create/put ourselves in situations that can create pressure. But pressure is literally force exerted upon…
