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Shoreline

"Wheel of Awareness" by Dan Siegel
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I see myself as a shore line. There is the me that is solid earth. There is another part which is the ocean of my emotions and thoughts. They meet at the shoreline.

Along this shoreline I might find a reef or two that makes for a breaking up of the turbulence of the waves crashing against the rocks of other parts of this shoreline. I might find peaceful beauty along one part of the shoreline as well.

Imagine a broader view--your flying over yourself. You see the calm deep blue of the gentler areas. (I'm always awed at the Caribbean around some of the cayes and islands. It's so beautiful, from 30,000 ft.) Maybe there is a hurricane out on the ocean over there. Maybe you can view a rocky coastline of yourself. Here the waves crash in and send up spray against the rocks. (West Coast, Oregon).

Get in a space ship, what would this look like from even higher up? How about a blue globe of beauty from space. Do you see the wholeness of the earth (the clay frame) as we look back from space? It's not in conflict at all, at least from the appearance of some of the photographs we've taken of our planet.

Go father out, and the entirety of the whole becomes even more astounding. Insignificant does not even seem to describe it.

You'd get to a place you'd never find the earth or yourself unless you had the quadrants.

Now don't get lost. You are imagining. You immediately remember your shoreline. You come back. You speed back to where you are today, a Monday morning. How does it all look now?

The waves will crash in some places. In other places along your shoreline it's still and calm. (I think we are greater than just one small short coastline).

Perhaps beating waves are the criticisms of your own internal mind. In those moments we are sitting confused, overwhelmed, drenched, possibly already washing out to sea in all the defectiveness that another battered soul can cast up upon us as our life collides with other's shorelines....do you get the picture?

Work waves, People waves, Personal waves, they all have their own shorelines. We cannot avoid their lives colliding with ours.

See that the secure part of you as not going anywhere; there is substance. On planet earth, shorelines change occasionally. The general land masses have remained relatively unchanged for the last several thousands of years.

Considering ourselves comparable to earth...we've got our crusts, we have our volcanic eruptions further in-land, but as a whole there is a multitude of reasons to view ourselves in the entirety of our being as being more-or-less astoundingly beautiful and whole. We must get in touch with the goodness that's always been in our being.

I don't judge an explosion coming from a volcano. I don't judge a hurricane at sea. These things are all part of the beauty of our lives. I'm not my emotions: eruptions or chaotic hurricane. I am not the drama that would suck all my strength.

I am whole. You are whole. We as people are whole. I think all storms would calm almost immediately if we had but some perspective.

I hope the link to the meditation will help you find the inner calm. From this place we can befriend ourselves, on the journey of this Monday morning.

Fare thee well, fellow journeyers. Who knows what discoveries we will be making today.

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