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I like this frame of a "type error" when asking "is this true" like, my relationship with the ocean has made me ~20% more grounded and better at meeting emotional tides. so asking "is the ocean a being u can relate to" is... not the domain of 'fact', but experience. type error https://t.co/Gz6HagqLMj
some people use the word 'belief' to mean things like - factual external-verifiability, predictive power some other people use the word 'belief' to mean 'felt experience'; an internal direction of energy flows. the somatic-imaginal
thanks ocean https://t.co/bNWQWiksTf
“the unthinkable happens - and then life continues. and then something good happens, but the unthinkable also did happen??” building embodied relationship with the ocean is helping this feel more obvious. one wave happens - gah - oh wait, life’s not done? there’s another wave? https://t.co/nm2I5FH2fX
see also: "three levels of belief" - mind, heart, body especially helpful for making sense of situations like "wow I intellectually know that these people want me around - but my body's tensing up as if I'm about to be attacked??" https://t.co/yiilhDtEnK
that said, I don't polarize 'fact' and 'felt somatic-imaginal experience'. they weave into and out of one another. they need each other &, when in balance, support one another. by calling up the feeling of diving in ocean waves, I'm reproducibly more able to show up for others
@relic_radiation mm, related, i get this question a lot https://t.co/VeUyAP1Uxc
"isn't this anthropomorphising" no. because it's not about seeing the ocean as human. it's.. not the ocean is, without putting too fine a point on it, the ocean but it's possible, to relate to it as something other than dead atoms https://t.co/2iX2XlZdgk