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Today, I'm gonna be talking about how to calm the voice inside, the one that's inside of your head And the one that you're thinking, well, I don't know. I don't know if I have a voice inside of my head. That's the voice I'm talking about. The one that's saying that right now. And I want to give you an example I heard. And I've given this example a couple of times in the podcast.
And people always come up to me or send me messages or emails and like, I love that example because it makes so much sense. I heard one time from a spiritual teacher and he shared this story and it really hit home for me. It hit home on other episodes. And so I just want to share it with you again, okay? Imagine that there's a bird. The bird's flying through the air and he's,
He's graceful and he's free and he's soaring through the clouds. And then one day he's looking down as he's flying and he sees this big, beautiful lake. So he comes down from the sky, lands on this lake. And, you know, it's this calm, beautiful lake and sits there and he's like, man, this is amazing. And the bird's like drawn to the calm, tranquil grace of this beautiful lake that it's in, right?
And decides, hey, this is pretty amazing. You know what? I'm just going to stay here for a while. And the bird stays for a while and stays for a little bit longer and stays for a little bit longer. And the bird ends up staying for so long that the bird forgets that he's able to fly.
And, you know, he's been resting on the water for such an extended period, he forgets he can fly and then he starts to actually identify with the lake and think that I am this water. I am this water that's right here. And so he forgets that he could have, you know, pick up his wings and just fly away and that he used to do that in the past.
And this bird that once was capable of flight, and actually still is capable of flight, has basically become a creature of the water. So when the water's calm, it's not really a big deal. He enjoys it. It feels really good. But when the wind picks up, when the water gets choppy, the bird struggles, tries to keep its head above the water, starts to fear that he might drown in some sort of way.
And in turn, when it ends up being calm, he starts thinking about, well, what am I going to do the next time it gets choppy? And it starts to make the bird want to control the state of the water. So even when it's calm, he starts worrying about all of the choppiness that could be coming, hoping that it stays calm all the time, trying to figure out and plan for the next time that it becomes choppy.
And so he's ruining a present moment where it's calm and it's beautiful and the sun is out, trying to figure out a way to manipulate the water so that he can make sure that it stays calm forever. And his attempts to manipulate the water are impossible, basically counterproductive, because the more he moves, the more he's going to turn up the water anyways.
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