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The
Story of the Small Puddle and the Ocean
Imagine you are a small puddle on the sea shore. There are millions of other
puddles… however, you feel isolated from all others.
You have learned since your creation that you are small, alone, and
insignificant. The weather could make you disappear in an instant-- a big
storm, a major rainfall, or a drought can dry you right up. To protect
yourself, you have to build little sand walls and “dig in” as much as you
can.
Now if you take another perspective… there is the ocean (luckily) just near
you. You can see it… there is no limit to it. It is powerful beyond measure
and infinite in size.
When you feel lonely, separated, or powerless, you see yourself as the small
puddle. It seems that you have no common point with others…and that you have
no power. This is the state you experience when you feel insignificant and
anxious…. when you resist that which is happening in your life.
A client of mine came to me because she is now in a new job and she feels so
bad about it that she is anxious and feeling totally powerless.
We often forget the ocean. We forget that we are part of the ocean and that
once we define ourselves such, we have all the power we need to create
whatever we want.
But how do you change your definition? How do you feel powerful and peaceful
when you feel only insignificant and anxious?
The ocean has characteristics that are incredibly enjoyable: once a part of
the ocean you feel powerful… peaceful in the moment… in the flow. You take
action and make decisions… and you see your actions and decisions reflected
on the world around you as new creations. And… you have an incredible sense
of trust.
For centuries, they have given this “state of being” names that make it seem
unachievable… reserved for the elite.
You know what? It isn’t.
You may not immediately experience “being the ocean” 24/7, but there are
ways to learn to feel like the ocean and to join the ocean, and believe
me…it feels fantastic! When you do learn the feeling, everything in your
life flows. You are the creator of your reality. You think something…and
voila! It happens! And you have the power to create everything you want. No
limits.
So, how do you get a sense of it? A taste of it?
Yes, hear me well: a sense of it; SENSE. It is not a question of intellect
and it is not a question of understanding.
The mind is actually what tricked you into feeling separated—actually the
ego is fighting tooth and nail against any idea of oneness.
You may not remember, but as a baby… before you developed any language
skills… you felt only oneness with your mother. You had no clue of two
beings there. It was only when you began to learn different words for
different aspects of what you sensed that you began to feel separate and
small.
The good news is that this level of consciousness has never left you. And
you can still join the ocean—pretty easily.
Let’s perform an experiment to find out how the mind… made up of thoughts,
beliefs, words, and names… makes us feel separate from our
surroundings—creating emotional reactions to what “is”.
Take a small plastic bottle of water…
Jody had brought an empty bottle of water to her session and left it on the
table already squeezed and ready to be thrown away. She was looked at it as
if it belonged in the trash can, feeling the need to chunk it already. She
had not had time to throw it away yet and did not feel comfortable with this
“trash” between us on the table.
I said: “Look at it… feel how you feel about the bottle.” She said she felt
it was useless and needed to be thrown to the trash.
And then I said, “Imagine that this bottle was used by your favorite movie
star… and that he left it here for you. How do you feel now? Sense in your
body what is going on.”
“Yes,” she said. ”It feels like a precious artifact now, and I don’t want to
throw it away. I want to keep it. It’s worth a fortune! Yeah!”
“Great,” I said. “Now imagine something else: it has been left by a previous
client of mine who you have seen… he was terribly sick and might have AIDS.
How do you feel now about the bottle?”
She immediately felt fear… perhaps revulsion. Things were happening in her
body; she could feel the difference between this thought and the last one.
Then I asked her to forget any stories about the bottle and just think “that
bottle” without any judgment about it being empty and squeezed…nothing. Just
the word “bottle.”
It felt neutral. She felt calm but as if she had nothing in common with it.
Separated from it.
Now, I asked her to look at the bottle as if she had never seen it before.
She was coming from a different planet… and I asked her to be curious about
it with no judgment, no words for it, and no mental activity. Just observing
it. Her attention became involved in it, and she felt peaceful… present… in
the moment. She felt no more separation as she was in the midst of this
thought. She could almost sense how it might feel to have this bottle’s
shape… to be this “thing.”
This is “joining the ocean,” as I call it. You connect with your source
energy, the Field of infinite intelligence.
You know when you join the ocean because “being the ocean” allows you to
feel its qualities: you feel “in the now.” You are peaceful… everything
feels OK. There is no judgment. The mind is quiet… no words are used… it is
an experience, a sense. It is a body sensation--nothing else. It’s really
good.
Everything feels alright. For a moment you might experience the oneness… no
separation from what you are observing. If you are curious, you can even get
a sense of how it feels to “be” that thing. This is a very subtle sense.
Don’t expect anything more than a very slight sensation. And if you do….
just acknowledge it. Enjoy!
This ability to join the ocean is your ability to change whatever you want.
I asked my client to see her new job and try to let go of any judgment and
thoughts she had about it…to simply experience it….just as it is. She
quickly felt peaceful, calm. She realized that it was only the shudder of
her mind that created the painful experience.
She had been so judgmental that she was resisting the experience… and in so
doing, she became a small puddle… feeling powerless to change the situation.
Once she accepted this life circumstance without judgment, she even began to
appreciate the positive features of it: lots of money, experience in a field
she’d love to enter, etc….
And she realized she would get out of it and find the perfect job; she only
needed to relax in the flow of life and stop resisting…start trusting the
flow.
I invite you to join the Ocean this week! And you don’t need anything more
than an empty bottle of water !
Warmly,
Colette Streicher, LMSW
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