In the physical realm, most designers of hard surfaces include some slope. This facilitates the flow of whatever collects on the surfaces. If they don’t incorporate opportunity for flow, substances collect on them and over time they start to break down the surfaces.
In fact, most of nature already works this way; everything is about flow (movement). When that is happening in harmony, beautiful things seem to thrive.
Assuming this is more than just an observation (and perhaps a model), one might project that a similar dynamic of flow enhances the quality of most relationships. In other words, when congestion occurs on our surfaces, all kinds of other things have opportunity to grow. So, what would it mean to observe and understand how flow works in our lives so that we could also understand it in someone else’s?
One obvious thing would seem to be related to what we try to hold onto — where we try to block the natural flow of things. We’ve all heard the phrase, “let it go".
This is true more profoundly than we know.
