"Don't push the river, it flows by itself" ~Book title by Barry Stevens
I have not read the book. But I love the image that this idea creates.
How often do we expend useless copious amounts of energy working to move things that will move themselves if given the proper amount of time?
This is one of the things I love about water. It flows and fits among the crevices. It fits into the confines of space.
The large items in our life must be placed carefully because if they are not they get crowded out. Not so for the water. The water has the uncanny way of finding its way into the open spots. Yet, the water will reshape and reform everything else.
The large boulder sends the water moving around, over and under. It redirects the water, yet overtime the boulder is the one changed. The water leaves the boulder's presence no different. The boulder, finds itself altered.
The river flows by itself. It needs no further incentive then the casual interplay of gravity upon its existence.
Pregnancy and labor are forces that are in many ways like water.
For more reading on the topic read the article that started this connection tumbling around in my mind. Giving birth is a creative act, and like all creative acts it cannot be forced to conform to society's unnatural time constraints. ~Laura Shanley
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