read this before you join a pirate captain

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What I'm Learning From Cruising Through The Seven Teal Tides.

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By the time this email lands in your inbox, I’ll be cruising through the Seven Teal Tides.

Depending on what time you open it, I’m either on deck-swabbing duties, surreptitiously taking a quick swig from the rum flask, scanning below deck with a spyglass, or sharpen my sword -- shhhk -- shhhk -- shhhk to fight vile and dissolute creatures in the Unfathomed Deep.

Unofficially, I’m sailing with a Pirate Lord named Crook 'Relentless' Vexx of Tordmorden, who commands the Age of Piracy, where bold Captains sail free waters, where waves are not measured in feet but in increments of fear of the unknown change, and those who pass the ordeals become legend.

Officially?

Sitting in front of my desk, writing this email and working on this boldness I talked about to put that acquired knowledge of Life Cultivation into action to investigate the Unfathomed Deep Waters of myself.

Boldness to touch the fear of the unknown change.

Sounds exciting, or super dreadful?

That’s the thing about change—

As far as change goes, change is a huge question mark for us.

It’s the same with our own Unfathomed Deep Waters. What we don’t know resides in the realm of resistance.

The Waters are turbulent, deep and they are dark because there is no clarity in our lives.

How can you see and touch your resistance?

You’ve probably already suspected:
​Touching the FEAR of the unknown.

Fear is a super effective way to NOT change:

>> If you don't know about something
>> If you don't have enough information about something
>> If you can’t control that something
>> If you feel the sensations of an unpleasant emotion arising in your body

How do you think that this is related to not letting you reach what you seek the most?

We want change, yet we won’t change if we don’t understand why we should do it, and what we’ll be going to get with the deal.

The biggest obstacle, though, is what we FEEL.

That’s because of the fear of the unknown feelings that change brings to us.

How we feel is often divorced from reality, and keeps us stuck in a perpetual cycle of taking what feels good as a sign this is 'right', it’s 'positive', and what feels unpleasant as a sign of this is 'wrong', it’s 'negative'.

In order to feel something you need to be touched, or you touch. (Of course, I don’t have to tell you that touch does not apply only to the physical realm).

Qi touches everything.

From the perspective of totality, everything is connected with everything else by Qi. Qi exists in all of the space in the universe, it has no boundaries and is omnipresent.

Our way of thinking is that an object occupies a certain space between boundaries. So when we are looking for something, we tend to ask: "Where is it?" In terms of Qi that doesn’t work–it is everywhere.

Change occurs through the movement of Qi.

And, wherever there is Qi, there is information.

How is information conveyed? Information does not travel by itself. It needs energy or matter as a means of transport. Just like sending an email, image or letter, any information exchange needs energy and matter in order to be mobile.

As human beings, we are energy and matter and can transmit information through the activities of our consciousness and their expression such as thought and language.

Most people have no idea that we are TOUCHED and we TOUCH all the time.

It’s kind of annoying, isn't it?

Aren’t we very clear about how we want to be touched? Or from whom? Or how we want to feel? When touched?

I fucking bet you are. 'I' am.

We certainly don’t want to be touched by everyone, or anyone. Or want to touch everyone or anything. We certainly want to feel a certain way.

Let’s start by looking at what TOUCH means:
​Touch is an influence that implies a force that brings about a change. It’s a specified sensation that arises in response to stimulation of the tactile receptors, to feel. It connotes stirring, arousing, or harming.

Touch is also defined as:
​To handle or to feel with the intent to understand or appreciate.

When you receive something from someone or when someone lends you a helping hand, when you are in need, you appreciate. You say thank you. Take this as we’re feeling good when this happens. What about when you receive something from someone who comes at you as a bully, or expresses doubt in your abilities? Would you appreciate this? Would you feel good? Would you say thank you? Could you even say the words?

It is not easy? Why?

Because of the very fixed ways we view and we feel things.

There is this ancient saying from Heraclitus:
​To God all things are fair and good and right, but men hold some things wrong and some right. One problem of life is that we don't understand that good and evil are simply temporal apparitions.

We act according to how we feel and view things, the mentality we have about something. If something is seen as positive or good, we want to do it or have it. We want to feel it. If not, we keep ourselves aways from it or condemn it. We don’t want to feel this way (ever again).

We see it as a problem.

The problem is, the 'feel-good-feeling' we feel about something or someone affects how we look at something or someone.

We hold on to how we feel as though they are absolute truths and there is no room for improvement.

It is rare to question the 'feel-good-feeling' and make room for the 'unknown-feeling' that is about to bring the change we are seeking so desperately.

Think about it. Is the intention to understand and appreciate not important for everything? Isn’t it necessary to treat ourselves, our family, other people and everything with the intent to understand or appreciate? Can we effectively work on our life or anything else without true sincerity and true appreciation?

You see, when we DON’T WANT TO BE TOUCHED to NOT feel a certain way, or only TOUCHED IN A PREFERRED WAY, we are hiding and avoiding from the information. We are avoiding the change that this information is about to bring to our life.

The pattern of Avoiding and Hiding manifests as not wanting to face things we don’t like or want.

We then feel uncomfortable, uncertain, unsafe = unknown.

Crook 'Relentless' Vexx of Tordmorden in your corner of the unknown change, I hope you go for it.

XOM

Mirjam Blank​
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