Are You Using Your Connective Tissue?

Did you know that your connective tissue in your body holds everything together? From fascia to tendons and ligaments, we’d fall apart without it.

Humans are made to connect, and society would fall apart if we didn’t have people who connect with their social connective tissue, their hearts.

In a world of quick, click, connect, there seems to be less and less heart. Why? Because adding a friend with the click of a mouse is easy. It’s fairly risk free, doesn’t really cost us anything financially, or emotionally, and can even make us feel good, if only in a superficial sort of way.

But truly connecting does require heart. It requires the willingness to risk. It requires courage. Courage is an adaptation of cor (latin for heart), and the word heart in the Olde English heorte  means heart; breast, soul, spirit, will, desire; courage; mind, intellect.

Why courage? Because we are never guaranteed that we won’t be hurt. In fact, because we probably will. Because it takes courage to show up as ourselves and not clothed in the expectations of society.

Genuine connections are worth it, though! Don’t you agree?