RE: HOW DAMS ARE OUR MIRROR IMAGE!
I get your point but I don't entirely agree with your analogy: while massive, modern dams are often indeed very destructive organisms, smaller, more reasonable sized dams -- like those used in permaculture or keyline design -- are on the contrary highly productive. Used in conjunction with swales to rehabilitate damaged eco-systems, they enable rainwater to be slowed down, collected and soaked into the ground, creating fertility where otherwise it would have run off, carrying away precious topsoil and further decreasing fertility. A good dam -- often lots of small, interconnected dams, rather than one large one -- becomes an assembly point for all kinds of animals and a great source of life and fertility. In the same way, as you say, bottling up one specific emotion and obsessing over it is bad for us, but lightly carrying a number of more balanced emotions and using them to feed our minds and bodies with renewed energy can only be very good for us.
Anyway, just a thought. Thanks for the inspiration!
Thank you@nicksikorski, for your feedback, I hear what you are saying and I agree. Not all dams are damaging especially when used the right way, indeed some are built naturally by beavers. My inspiration for this post came when I was driving past a huge dam yesterday that has greatly effected the land around it. For me everything in life needs to flow, our emotions, our ideas, they need to flow through us and not be held. But I do like your analogy of a healthy dam. Thank you for stopping by and sharing that with me.