Stress and Integrity: A Bridge to Health through Tansegrity

Stress and Integrity: A Bridge to Health through Tansegrity

Tensegrity wellness - tension and integrity to be flexible and rigid, sensitive and immune Tensegrity - a combination of "tension" and "integrity", borrowing from the physical world in which there is a structure in which tensegrity forces operate, meaning that there is a tension between flexibility and rigidity]

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Tensegrity: a model of rigidity and flexibility as a way of coping and resilience

Tensegrity: a model of rigidity and flexibility as a way of coping and resilience

The Tensegrity model is a fascinating engineering structure that combines rigidity and flexibility. It is based on a connection between rigid rods and tensioned cables, which create a system where the forces balance each other, so that the entire structure remains stable but flexible.

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On resilience and trees

On resilience and trees

"There is nothing nobler and more worthy of being an example than a beautiful and strong tree. When a tree is cut down, you can see on the round slab of its tombstone its entire life history. In the rings of the years and in all the cicadas, every war, every suffering, every illness, every happiness and every growth are faithfully recorded. Years of thinness and good years. Storms that the tree has withstood and from which it has emerged intact. Every peasant boy knows that the strongest and noblest trees, the narrowest rings and the most massive trunks, grow on the high mountains, where they are subject to constant dangers.

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