HOW CAN I CONSCIOUSLY EXERCISE ASYMMETRY?

We assume wholeness to be in what we do but we do not know what it is. We meet others, communicate, and conduct our lives from this place. Wholeness — unreduced or unbroken totality; a state of completeness; the quality of being or feeling complete and not divided or damaged — does not guarantee us clues to its shape. Unseen, qualitative components participate in its “right-ness”. When not considering this detail we reduce our definition of what is whole to what is visible. This creates a conflation of wholeness with symmetry. 

Unconflated, symmetry appears as but a piece of wholeness alongside its counterpart asymmetry. Asymmetry is also not wholeness. The two pieces comprise one unique way that completeness fractures. However, there is often more tendency towards symmetry in our thinking and attitudes. Asymmetry in turn, is consistently underrepresented. Asymmetric completenesses; their essences and integrities, offer steps toward wholeness which are impossible in symmetrical systems however. When we isolate them from our process we are guaranteed a reduced muddle. 

The conflation of symmetry and wholeness overlooking this matter adds prohibitive governance in the form of our expectations. We make a habit of these expectations. It is here however that we can instead make our practice. 

Two fragments of wholeness; two integrities, the conscious navigation of which imparts movement towards the complete; synergetic. Holding both truths together one reconciles compatibility (necessarily symmetrical) and complementarity (necessarily asymmetric in its counterweighting). 

Our practice becomes the question:

How can I consciously exercise asymmetry?