contraction unhinged '...we contract when we withdraw or pull back from relationship. all conscious creatures contract when afraid or threatened....contracion has a shielding and protective purpose in nature, but as a way of being in life, contraction can prevent us from feeling connected to the world around us. in this way we could say that contractions moves us in the opposite direction from the liberating insight of pratityasamutpada (interconnectedness).' - elizabeth mattis namgyel 180808 what's it to you? who go blather from