Move Away From The Middle

MAP

How are you this morning?  Feeling fine as usual?

What if you went a little deeper than that – deep below the surface?  What would you find?

How much are you on auto-pilot – giving standard responses to standard questions?  Do you think nobody cares?

I do.  And you should too. 

You should care about how you feel for it tells you a lot about being fine.  Fine details – the edges of the masses, the big lumps.

The fine details are the transition points between one thing and another.  The masses are easy to identify but they don’t give you much detail, much information for you to use.

Sad, happy, frustrated, glad – they are all the masses – general sweeping labels that lump the details all into one.

If you took a microscope to a rock – what would you see – the details not the mass.  The rock only looks like a mass, one big surface until you look deeper.  Then you start to see the details.

And you can go deeper and deeper as far as you are willing to go.

That is the question – isn’t it.  How deep are you willing to go?  Are you afraid of what is in the depths?  It is already there.  Ignoring it won’t change the fact it is there.

When you go deeper you bring it to the surface – and create a new level of mass.  And then it’s not so scary.

Did you know there are people as much afraid of joy as pain?  Are you one of them?  Could you be so overcome with joy you would perceive it as pain?

The intensity is there for you to experience to the degree you like.  Dial it up, not down.  A little bit at a time if you must – there is nothing wrong with that.  But feel a little more than you do right now.

Dip your toe in the water.  It may feel cold at first but you get used to it.  Same with hot.  Both ends moderate to the middle where it’s more comfortable.

Have you considered to join the Polar Bear Club with yourself?   To jump into the freezing waters of your insides to feel a little bit more than normal, a little bit more towards the edge rather than just living in the middle.

Balance isn’t all that is it cracked up to be if you choose only to live in the middle.  Your image of a teeter-totter works well.  The ride is on the edges – not in the middle.

Go to a playground and sit in the middle [of a teeter-totter] while others go up and down.  How much did you experience in comparison to them?  How much fun do you have in comparison to them?

They are on the edge while you are in the middle looking out at them.

That is all I mean by being on the edge.  You have a much broader range to be through, to move through. You shorten that distance the closer you are to the middle.

So if you want to experience more – m0ve away from the middle, away from the mass into the fuzzy details.

Just go deeper – if even a little.