You can’t take the ocean, put it in a box
and expect it to be happy
flowing
powerful
and free.
You can’t take your soul, lock it in the dark
and expect it to be thriving
shining
blissfully living
happily ever after.
You can’t take your life, ignore it
and expect yourself to not simply exist
but actually fulfill
what you’re here to do.
You can’t take your pain,
numb it with food,
with hating your body,
with sex, with drugs, with alcohol,
and expect it to stop hurting so much.
You can’t take your essence and ruin it
in the hopes of changing your destiny.
So release,
release,
release.
Surrender,
surrender,
surrender
to what your soul wants,
to the ocean you are,
to your power,
to your wildness.
Take the force that’s inside and instead of turning it down all the time,
turn it up – just once and you’ll never turn back.
Allow yourself to flood with love
for your body
for your life
for the person you are.
Let go of what you think will make you happy.
Walk toward what actually does.
This is something you’ve never expected,
never thought of
with your rational mind,
but the ocean inside has always known,
your soul has always been nudging you,
your heart has always been whispering in your ear.
You already know.
You’ve always known.
Isn’t that true?
Haven’t you been lying to yourself all along?
Aren’t you sick and tired of being sick and tired?
Aren’t you destroying yourself
willingly
every day
regretting it,
sure,
every night,
but still unwilling to change?
Because you’re still hoping that the same damn thing you’ve done for ten years, fifteen years, twenty years
will somehow, magically, this time
produce the result you’ve been waiting for
since you were 14?
Hmmmm
Do you really believe it works that way?
Until you decide – really decide –
that enough is enough
that now is the time of no return
no more excuses
that now is the time to face your pain
to call your coach in tears
and agony
because you are releasing all the bullshit that you’ve been carrying around all your life?
And since you’re the ocean
living in a box
the first step is to push it open,
to breathe in all the air you’ve never allowed yourself to breathe,
to save yourself from drowning,
to realize that you’re not even in that deep
and that really, it’s all in your mind.
Break open and become your ocean
with all your crazy
your mastery
your untamed truth
and unleash all you’ve got.
Turn the force of your soul all the way up
and finally see what you actually want.
Take your life seriously
for god’s sake
and stop living it half-dead
waiting for someday to save you.
Enough. Just enough.
That’s not who you are
that’s not how you want to live
that’s not what you came here for.
You are meant for more.
Just say it already!
You are different.
You want more.
You are willing.
You want more.
You are courageous.
You want more.
You are ready.
You want more.
You are done being see-through.
You want more.
You are done being covered up to your ears.
You want more.
You want total freedom.
You want to shed all layers of pretense,
fear,
ridiculous beliefs that,
once challenged,
make you laugh so hard you cry.
You want to live a life according to the ocean within
that is threatening to suffocate you
if you don’t change something
fast.
You are HERE.
NOW.
And you are ready to live your one
wild, uncaged
life.
You are ready to become your entire self.
So do it.
Do it now.
Do it today.