Bungees, gazebos and psychological flexibility
"The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists." - Japanese Proverb. Built implicitly into the mindfulness approach (and explicitly in Acceptance & Commitment Therapy), is the practice of working towards psychological flexibility. We are aiming to step back from craving total control over the events in our lives, from wanting things to be ‘just so’ or the way I want them to be, and closer to a moment-to-moment noticing how things actually are, and working with t