There is an ocean within the mind that is unique to everyone, yet the same for everyone. It is where we are at all times, but where few actually get to see. A place where the concept of a self is stripped from both worldly and egoistic desires. It simply just is.
Within this ocean are pools, each and every one of us has their own pool. Your pool is a representation of your state of mind. In the center of it is where you find yourself floating still. Your stillness means that you flow the way the water wants you to flow.
If you let yourself get riled up, the ripples in the pool grow gradually into waves, shaking about your inner world. You then are at the mercy of the pool, rising and falling when it wants you to. It is akin to having no self control over your state of mind, and you end up blaming everything but yourself for you you act and react.
These waves represent the higher and lower states of consciousness. When you are on top of the wave, you begin to think that everything below you is less than what you are. Leaving some to grow an ego that tells them not to worry about problems that are beneath them. Which for some can prove to be very beneficial on a shorter timeline. Helping them get over things that they otherwise would hold onto.
However, it can also cause problems when it comes to getting things done. They often feel a sense of entitlement, like the world owes it to them to make sure their dreams become reality. Leaving them waiting and never acting, because why would someone like them need to concern themselves with anything less than themselves.
Depending on how big they have let their waves get, they could find themselves riding these waves for a while. Weeks, months, and in extreme cases years. All depends on how much control they have forfeited over their own mind. Which leads us to the fall off…
The fall can be a nasty one, if they fall from too high up they can find yourself in a world of pain. Not always in the physical sense, it’s usually in the mental sense, They wake up and are no longer so unsettled by the worldly problems that they so easily brushed off not too long ago. It can feel like they are an imposter in their own mind, because now all these worldly problems are now their world.
The highs of the waves they rode with such confidence have now, with a shift in perspective, become walls that surround them. Closing them off from seeing anything but what the world has to show them. Since they have been ignoring that message for so long, they feel that all that there is to see is problems. They can’t see any higher, the waves have become walls. There is no horizon in sight.
They soon forget what it ever felt like to see above the walls, leaving them unsettled and restless. They wake up from sleep more tired than when they went to it. Why, well because it is now another day within these walls. So much for them to do, that they have to do. An obligation to live overcomes them, and live in a way the world tells them to live.
Responding to any outside disturbance, because it is no longer outside of their minds pool but part of it.
They personalize every problem and react. They wait for things to happen to them because they are still too busy keeping their attention on what already has happened and passed.
It continues. The further they allow their waves to dictate their reality, the longer it continues. Growing in both size and duration. Separating themselves further and further from what actually is, leaving them with a sense of an inability to control anything, let alone themselves.
The answer to their worries is all within the pool itself, or rather the pool itself.
Seeing it as not something that is separate of themselves, but instead part of themselves.
Coming to that understanding allows for the control to zoom out and see the waves coming before they come. They must continue to zoom out until they are no longer waves but once again ripples.
If you feel the waves of your mind have gotten out of control, get yourself a bigger pool. The waves will settle within their new environment.
