Welcome back to the Mind Meld my friends, and as you've probably noticed, surfing

the waves of the human psyche is rarely dull because even when the waters are calm, it's

quite active because you see yourself in the reflection of that calmness and that leads

to a whole different kind of turbulence that prickly introspection.

And that is where all the neuroses live in that place where you have the ability to be

calm and look inward, yet when you look under the rug of your ego, you know, like thinking

about where you're at, where you're not, where you could be.

That's when you find what you usually find when you look under a forgotten rug.

And although that mode of thinking does have its place, it's also as I alluded to where

anxious, depressed, self-critical stagnancy takes hold.

It's a place where so many of us spend way too much time that stagnant self-critical

place.

I think that place is the psychic purgatory of modern life.

So that begs the question, what is the counterbalance to that?

What is the antidote to that stagnancy?

I would say movement, of course, a mindful exit from that loop of recursive psychic self-flagelation

back into the stream of the world, the unknown, the uncomfortable and scary to an extent.

Because of course, that's where all the growth and possibility and novelty and magic

is, too, all of those delicious, bitter, life-defining flavors.

And of course, you can't stay there all the time either.

It's the balance between the placid waters and the novelty waves.

That's the goal, I think, if something as dynamic and influx as that can be called a goal.

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