...Episode 5 of the "What's Arising Podcast"

The nature of reality and the nature of nature is vibration, waves. As a wave, everything, including our bodies are a process/vibration/movement rather than a 'thing'. All waves have peaks and valleys, but they are one whole process; undivided. This is the nature of waves.

Emotions are waves with interdependent peaks and valleys. While we have little control over the waves of emotions or choices of others, we can still our own wave and joyfully ride the waves of human experience from a place of stillness and non-duality. By stilling (not controlling) our emotional waves (non-attachment), we can 'influence' the waves of others rather than getting pulled into or attuning to the dramatic waves of the world. In stillness there is peace.

Shadow integration work is aimed at stilling our wave, releasing the emotional charge and peacefully riding the waves of life through all its peaks and valleys, its births and deaths.

Interested in stilling your wave?
Learn about Shadow Integration: https://www.wisdomways.net/shadowintegration/

Transcript

Welcome to this episode of What’s Arising?

I am calling this episode Stilling the Wave.

The resonance of this bowl is a beautiful metaphor for the wave, which I will explore in this reflection.

Everything in life is vibration.

Everything is frequency.

Everything is wave.

The bowl sends out waves of sound, which you can hear and feel. In the same way, all of our senses as human beings are attuned to vibration and vibrational waves.

Life, by its nature, is frequency.

We experience life through our senses. We receive vibration and interpret it as colour, sound, touch, sensation, emotion, and meaning.

That is an amazing experience for us as human beings.

Animals are also attuned to the wave. Plants are the wave. We are the wave too. But as human beings, we have the ability to interpret the wave, make meaning from it, and imagine ourselves as separate from it.

Emotions are also like waves.

There are ups and downs in our emotions, and we tend to interpret the ups as good and the downs as bad.

But if we look at the ocean, we see something different.

Imagine reality built on an ocean of consciousness. Across this ocean, waves arise and fall. There are many different kinds of waves. I do not know what wind creates them, but the waves are there.

Every life is a wave.

A life arises, reaches a peak, and eventually falls away. We are born, move through the arc of life, and eventually die.

Everything in life is a process — a wave of vibration.

Some waves are tall and powerful. Some are shallow and gentle. But everything is vibration.

As human beings, we often interpret these waves through duality: good and bad, high and low, positive and negative. But you cannot have a high wave without a low wave. You cannot have the crest without the trough.

They are mutually dependent.

Creation contains positives and negatives, light and dark, black and white, peak and valley. This gives life contrast. It gives us depth of experience.

The problem may be that we become attached to one part of the wave and think one side is better than the other. We want everything to be an up wave. But in a dualistic world, we cannot have only up waves.

There must also be down waves.

Right now, we are living in a world with extreme waves of fear and grief. Many of the things we thought we knew about life, stability, society, and what we were creating as human beings seem to be moving through a down wave.

We have had up waves. We have had peaceful times. And now we seem to be entering a more difficult wave.

Life is cyclical.

There are long cycles of Earth, Sun, solar system, and galaxy. There are shorter cycles of climate, history, culture, and personal life. Ice ages and warm periods come and go.

It is all wave.

So what can we do with the wave?

We can try to sail against it. We can fight it. We can splash and row and push against it. Or we can move with the wave of what is happening and choose not to judge the wave.

We can ride the ups and downs and simply be with the experience of life as it moves.

We can watch our own life wave, and the life waves of others, without needing to make them good or bad. We can simply be in the experience of life going up and down.

But as human beings, we often become addicted to the drama.

I know this experience in myself. The waves of emotion moving across the planet, or coming into my field, can become addictive. In some ways, it can even feel energizing to be angry at someone, to feel bliss, to feel intensity, to feel the full wave of life.

We can get attached to the waves.

We can get lost in the drama.

There is also attunement. If humanity is vibrating in a wave of fear, do I allow myself to attune to that frequency? Do I get drawn into it like a tuning fork? Do I begin to resonate with the collective fear wave?

That can happen.

Or can I still my wave and perhaps invite others into that stillness?

If we take our own vibration and quiet the wave, spreading it out until it becomes almost like a line, it returns to the ocean. There is a kind of nothingness there — almost a sense of death, but more deeply, it is the heart of creation.

It is stillness within creation.

By stilling our own wave, and choosing not to be pulled into the collective drama, we find peace.

That is one way of entering peace.

Another way the wave can collapse is through very fast vibration. If the vibration becomes fast enough, it also becomes still on the other side. All the waves come together into a still point.

Maybe that is bliss.

Both are forms of nothingness.

Both return us to the heart of creation.

So my inquiry is this:

How do I still my wave?

And what happens when I still my wave?

If I walk into a room with a clear, present, still wave, what happens to others in the room?

If I do not attune to the vibration already happening there, but instead invite others into stillness without trying to do anything, will they attune?

I think they can.

If I still my wave, if I let go of the things disturbing my experience of life, then perhaps I can have influence and impact in the world simply by being still.

Or, as another way of looking at it: if the world around me is moving in a turbulent direction, can I be a still point anywhere on the wave?

If there is turmoil, economic crisis, grief, fear, or uncertainty, can I remain still and ride the wave?

What would happen then?

And what would happen if many of us came together and stilled the wave?

There has been research around meditation, stillness, and collective intention — groups of people meditating or visualizing a peaceful city or world, and appearing to have an impact on the surrounding field.

Gandhi said we must be the change we want to see in the world.

I suggest that part of that process is stilling the wave.

Working with our own trauma.

Working with our own shadows.

Coming to peace.

Letting go of all the waves of what we hate, what we fear, what we crave, what we resist, and what we want to control.

Bringing these waves into being without resistance.

Riding the wave without fighting it.

So those are my thoughts for today.

How can you still your wave?

How can we still the wave of the world?

Or at least ride the wave without getting caught in the drama?

I think we are in a more powerful place, and we lose less energy, when we do this.

This may involve grief work. Going deeply into grief in order to still the wave. Letting fear move through in order to still the wave. Feeling what arises rather than resisting it.

In the show notes, I will include links to the work I do with shadow. Shadow work has been a powerful experience for me and for the clients I have worked with.

It is a process of noticing the things we hate, reject, or cannot stand in life, because those are waves we are sending out — waves that often build on themselves.

As I suggested in the last video, the world is in the midst of shadow wars: big waves of war, resistance, anger, and fear arising from the darkness we have suppressed.

The wave is arising.

The shadow is arising.

But each of us can take responsibility for stilling that wave within ourselves and withdrawing our energy from the wave moving through the world.

When peace arises within each of us, we can influence the world from that peace.

I hope you enjoyed this podcast.

I will see you in the next one.

And whatever wave you are on, may you go deeply into the experience of that part of life.

Be still within it.

And notice the beauty and possibility inherent in this wave of life.