Finding Rhythm with the Wall

There are days when my coach is away or friends are busy, and I still feel the pull toward the court. On those days, I play tennis with the wall.

The wall holds a very particular truth: it never adapts to me.
If I want the rally to continue, I must adjust — my timing, my swing, even the rhythm of my breath — to the ball’s return.

At first glance, it seems like nothing more than a physical practice. But each time I face the wall, I am reminded that coherence is not about bending life to my will. It is about learning how to meet what is in front of me — with presence and with rhythm.

Life, like the wall, does not yield to our preferences. Circumstances return to us, often unchanged, no matter how much we wish they would soften. Yet when we shift our attention from control to coherence, something begins to open.

We discover that growth is not about forcing the wall to change.
It is about tuning ourselves — our responses, our pace, our way of being — until we enter an alignment where flow and resilience become possible.

The wall keeps returning the ball.
And so does life.
Our task is not to overpower it, but to meet it, again and again, until a rhythm reveals itself.