The ocean is expansive. It’s free. It’s intentional. It’s interconnected. The ocean is home.
The same laws that govern the ocean, govern us. We are not separate from it.
We are the ocean and the ocean is us.
Just like the ocean has tides and currents, our lives are governed by subtle ebbs and flows, pushes and pulls. It’s always there, guiding us, all we have to do is tune in and feel it. Just like the tide is not separate from the ocean, we are not separate from the energy of the universe.
However, as we move through life, we accumulate layers of dirt that solidify and form a hard shell around us. A shell that prevents us from experiencing the truth, from seeing who we really are and what we’re truly capable of, from feeling the flow of the ocean. We carry this shell with us wherever we go, thinking it’s a part of us, seeking refuge in it when the storms get rough.
If we want to free ourselves, we need to get rid of our shell. We need to see it for what it is: an external prison that keeps anything from getting in and that keeps us from getting out.
From experiencing what our home truly feels like.
To get rid of the shell, you need to consciously peel back the layers of who you thought you were, of who society tells you you are, of the stories and beliefs that latched on without you even knowing. As you peel back, layer after layer, your shell weakening, you start to feel more connected and in tune with the ocean around you. You start to feel the rhythm of the tide carrying you, of the current pulling you.
You need to consciously peel back the layers of who you thought you were, of who society tells you you are.
As you become more in tune and experience the sensations of the ocean, perhaps for the very first time, you realise that this feels more like home than your shell ever did. No matter how pretty your shell might have been. You realise that the ocean is where you belong and it’s been around you all along.
When you look out at the ocean, you can see the waves breaking. Some big, some small. Each unique and each equally as important as the one before. No wave out of place, no wrong or right, every wave originating from the same source.
We don’t know where they start or where they really end. We only see them when they start to become a wave, but the swell started to form way out there in the distance.
If you let go and tune into the ocean that surrounds you, you can feel it.
You can start to sense the formation of a swell long before it becomes a wave. You can learn to trust it, to move with it rather than resist it or try to control it.
Because no matter how hard you try, there’s no way you’re going to get the wave to break any other way than it’s going to.
Instead, you can surrender to it and let it carry you to wherever it goes, knowing that wherever it takes you is where you need to be and is also where you genuinely want to be, because it isn’t separate from you.
And when it’s time, once the wave has finished breaking, you’ll return back to the depths of the ocean. Because the ocean is home. You are the ocean and the ocean is you.
You were what you were looking for the whole time.
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