When we grasp toward ourselves, we simultaneously block anything to move in either direction - we deflect gifts offered and resist giving away our own gifts. We barricade off new knowledge and we defer from offering our own ideas freely without aggression or expectation. We cloud perception and function. We muddy the waters and prevent the possibility of space and renewal. When we grasp, we tend to create stagnation. We prevent the free movement of our biological functions, the free movement of ideas, of people and that of our own potential.