Heroes Not Zombies

We all love to watch breaking waves, don’t we? There’s something quite mesmerising about them. The higher the spray when the water hits the rock the better!

There’s something both beautiful and awe inspiring about them. Maybe it’s that sudden appearance of a mass of brilliant white erupting out of the blue green sea, or the way the sunlight catches the foam making it shine so. It’s delightful.

I think it’s also awe inspiring because we intuitively know that we are witnessing the power of the sea. It’s a sudden revelation of hidden energy.

Energy isn’t something we normally see. Well we can when it manifests as light but other forms of energy are invisible. But it’s something we can be aware of all the same. We feel it in the strength of a muscle. We witness it in the destruction of a storm, the eruption of a volcano, or in the size, height and noise of a wave crashing onto rocks.

We know our own energy levels too. For instance, if I asked you to assess your current overall energy level right now, and to give it a number from 1 to 10 where ten is the greatest energy you can imagine having and one is the least, you could tell me straight away. You’d say “6” or “9” or “3” or whatever.

But how would you come up with that number? What would you measure and what would you use to do the measurements? You wouldn’t have to check your blood pressure, your pulse, or your blood sugar level. You wouldn’t need any instruments. You’d do an instant, holistic, intuitive assessment and you’d know straight away. You’d give the number which conveyed your current energy state.

Isn’t that interesting? That we can sense and assess energies that way?

I think there’s another reason we are fascinated by these breaking waves. They are about impact, about “making a splash”. And that feels good – to have an effect, to make something happen, to “make a splash”.