Fierceness, Playfulness, Loving-Kindness
A Triptych Haiku

grit and gravitas determination persists embrace your Fierceness
curiosity sparking open potential enter Playfulness
compassionate mind caring universally live Loving-kindness
Sometimes good things come in threes. Three is a charm after all. Three straddles the line between a few and a lot. Three is a triangle, the strongest shape, used in keeping bridges and roofs up.
When a force (a load) is applied to one of the corners of a triangle, it is distributed down each side. The two sides of the triangle are squeezed. Another word for this squeezing is compression. The third side of the triangle is pulled, or stretched sideways. Another word for this stretching is tension.
These three energies, Fierceness, Playfulness, and Loving-kindness, form a psychological triangle that keeps us from collapsing when life’s loads bring tension and compress us. They protect and help us build stable structures to keep us safe and allow us to grow.
These energies are the emotional partners of the cognitive triangle I had presented earlier focusing on how silence, stillness, and spaciousness ground the three aspects of mind (conscious mind, subconscious body-mind, and the field mind). Together these two psychological triangles, in my opinion, help activate the right mind-body state for leaning into life so that we can learn, relate, and create.
