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This hit me like a ton of bricks.
I called a friend tonight to check up on her. She went into the hospital and wound up leaving with a full histo done due to endemytriosis. (sp?) I was calling to cheer her up.
Instead, I got hit acrossthe head with a massive clue stick. Our thirty minute conversation really opened my eyes to some fundamental aspects of energy flow and interaction dynamics.
Okay, better grab a sandwich, this will not be brief.
Take two poles. Attach a cross bar to them, and from the poles, hang two springs of the same tension and length and two weights of the same weight. This is basically a twin pendulum system, except that the pendulums move vertically instead of horizontally. Same physics, but far easier to see.
If you pull one of the weights down, then you get motion.
Now, attach the two pendula with either a spring or a bar -- doesn't matter which. If you activate one pendulum, then something really cool happens. The first pendulum transferrs all of its motion to the other one and stops whilethe other one starts moving. Then, the transfer happens again, and the original pendulum is moving again. This repeats until the two pendula use all their kinetic energy and come to rest.
The two pendula represent a system. Energy is being passed between the two units of the system.
Now, let's flip our thinking around. Instead of the active pendula transferring its motion to the other one, look at as the moving pendulum is transferring STATIC energy to itself so that the other pendulum can move free.
This relates to people. When someone is being a teacher, caretaker, or other helper to someone else, they are the pendulum that the "active one" taking on static energy.
Now, grab the static pendulum, and the entire system comes to a stop as the moving pendulum has no where to transfer its energy. If someone stays rigid, not accepting the flow of energy as the active pendulum tries to take on the static energy, then the system is arrested and motion stops.
I like helping other people. I deeply dislike asking for help, even though Ineed it a lot more often than ever before in my life since I learned to walk as a child. This reluctance to ask for help is arresting the system, and impairing the function of my relationships.
Wow. This is all as clear as a bell. I've gotten a really deep lesson in energy flow. There's more to it, too, but this is the part I can explain so far.
I called a friend tonight to check up on her. She went into the hospital and wound up leaving with a full histo done due to endemytriosis. (sp?) I was calling to cheer her up.
Instead, I got hit acrossthe head with a massive clue stick. Our thirty minute conversation really opened my eyes to some fundamental aspects of energy flow and interaction dynamics.
Okay, better grab a sandwich, this will not be brief.
Take two poles. Attach a cross bar to them, and from the poles, hang two springs of the same tension and length and two weights of the same weight. This is basically a twin pendulum system, except that the pendulums move vertically instead of horizontally. Same physics, but far easier to see.
If you pull one of the weights down, then you get motion.
Now, attach the two pendula with either a spring or a bar -- doesn't matter which. If you activate one pendulum, then something really cool happens. The first pendulum transferrs all of its motion to the other one and stops whilethe other one starts moving. Then, the transfer happens again, and the original pendulum is moving again. This repeats until the two pendula use all their kinetic energy and come to rest.
The two pendula represent a system. Energy is being passed between the two units of the system.
Now, let's flip our thinking around. Instead of the active pendula transferring its motion to the other one, look at as the moving pendulum is transferring STATIC energy to itself so that the other pendulum can move free.
This relates to people. When someone is being a teacher, caretaker, or other helper to someone else, they are the pendulum that the "active one" taking on static energy.
Now, grab the static pendulum, and the entire system comes to a stop as the moving pendulum has no where to transfer its energy. If someone stays rigid, not accepting the flow of energy as the active pendulum tries to take on the static energy, then the system is arrested and motion stops.
I like helping other people. I deeply dislike asking for help, even though Ineed it a lot more often than ever before in my life since I learned to walk as a child. This reluctance to ask for help is arresting the system, and impairing the function of my relationships.
Wow. This is all as clear as a bell. I've gotten a really deep lesson in energy flow. There's more to it, too, but this is the part I can explain so far.
