The Tempest's Bane (POB WOTW #007)

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A dual reality exists with equanimity.

Its utterance infers an image of balance or centering of the soul. A person exercising equanimity accepts the good with the bad and maintains a calm state of being. It also represents a steady and tempered mind allowing an individual to exercise their emotional intelligence to the highest degree.

And yet, like all states of being, it is the individual's stamina that maintains it.

Equanimity, like humanity, is mortal and part of our cycle of life. After all, we are human. One being's equanimity sometimes comes at the cost of another's peace.

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His own children severed his genitals.

The act surely jolted the king of gods from his state of equanimity. Never again would Ouranos imprison the children he sired with the first Titan. Losing his ability to reproduce guaranteed Gaia's suffering would end.

Gaia was the first to emerge from the void.

There was equanimity at the beginning of life; hate, love, and strife did not appear to exist at the start. She maintained a calm state of mind accepting the conditions that befell her. However, perhaps that was obvious. What other condition could you be in if you were the only being in existence?

Her later marriage to her son Ouranos allowed her to have children during those beginning years of her existence. She loved them all. What mother wouldn't?

The children she first bore were unnatural and unruly. However, no one asked for Gaia's opinion. She would have never described them in such a manner. These descriptions were those of her son-husband Ouranos. He took those babes and cast them into the darkness.

Another attempt at children yielded improved but similar results, according to the King. Yet again, the son-husband cast Gaia's children away from her bosom. What would a mother do in such a situation? When someone robs you of your children, without your consent or commentary, what would you wish upon the offender? Equanimity would be furthest from the tempest forming within.

The third time appeared to be the charm in the life of Gaia. Ouranos succeeded in convincing her to procreate again. Her last attempt to have children led to the birth of the Titans as we know them today. Yet, despite her new children, Gaia's heavenly equanimity would not be restored. The storms of emotions had been building since she lost her first children. They were robbed of her and suffered in the dark. A plan began to form.

Hell Hath no Fury

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Devoid of joy, she suffered. She remained broken without her babes. The storm of emotions and rage swirled within. The plan became simple.

Prevent their further abduction.

The death of her husband was the small price required. Yet, perhaps death was too subtle. Perhaps, Ouranos warranted a better punishment. With a vengeance in her heart, Gaia sought assistance from Kronos and his Titans to kill Ouranos and take his place as the ruler of all. Before his death, Kronos severed the vehicle of fertility from Ouranos.

Karma

And like his father before him, Kronos too suffered the same fate by his sons. They, too, did not know of a world of equanimity. It's doubtful any of them would, considering that their father tried to consume all the Olympians save Zeus. It seems that even the gods must live their tempestuous lives void of peace.

Dual Reality

Equanimity doesn't exist within a vacuum in the realm of the gods. It came at the expense of someone else's calm. Ouranos's equanimity came at the cost of Gaia's pain. Ouranos exalted over his kingdom and maintained his will over his subjects. His state of mind was balanced in his thoughts despite the world around him.

Storm and Strife

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Equanimity is only as permanent as our stamina. We must enter this state of being by accepting both the good and evil in your life. Meditate on what you can do and what you can't, but this is undoubtedly easier said than done.

What is there to do? If you're stuck in a storm, you can't necessarily be calm. Is equanimity just a mirage? Something with which to base a contest?

Not necessarily.

Build a calmness within you to weather the storm surrounding you. The storm always exists. Your equanimity then allows you to calm that storm, keeping its violent energy far enough away to prevent its powers from adversely affecting you.

How Important are Your Emotions?

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We all have storms brewing within us. These are the myriad of emotions that affect us in innumerable ways throughout our lives. Society only prepares us for them in minuscule ways. However, it is up to us to harness that power to achieve and maintain our state of mind.

Emotions are not a hindrance. They are a wild tool we must learn to harness. Achieving your own equanimity is crucial in life. We can only go as far as we allow ourselves to go. Impacted by unrestrained storms of emotions within us prevents us from looking beyond ourselves.

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After reading this post I feel that this duality is there in the markets too. People who are selling their crypto at a loss during bloodbath are making others rich.

A few people can achieve the power to handle tough situations while keeping calm. A similar mindset is required in crypto and in fact anywhere in life because life is full of shit.

Having 'patience' is the key to solve massive problems!


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Thank you for your response and input. I really appreciate it. Patience is the key. You can rule over your emotions, but you must not allow them to rule you. I wish I had that wisdom in my youth.

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The nurse asked me if I wanted to call my parents or a priest. I weakly said that I was good to go and ready to come home. I could barely remember the last 24 hours let alone breathe. It was like taking air in through a straw-except instead of air it was fire & pain. The nurse let me know what occurred. My parents came to see me two days later.

Fear, Excitement, Anxiety, and Regret drove my body to the point of collapse. Two years before my hospital stay I worked non-stop between my submarine and education. First one to rise and last one to sleep. When my heart problems started, pain wracked my body. No one believed me. I dropped 40 pounds because it just hurt too much to eat. The pain taught me you had to actually breathe when eating. Why didn't I ever know this?

The ship's doctors told me I had heartburn. I had nowhere to go. I was in torment for 6 months until those GD doctors realized maybe they were wrong.

What I had was irrelevant. No one is an island and no one is invulnerable. Yet, the dual reality of equanimity exists. Had I not gone through that turmoil I would not have learned about the equanimity possible to calm the storms within. Even now, I must control my emotions to prevent my damaged heart to sing its songs once more.

Like the gods of old, even I did not have the stamina for equanimity. Yet, I am human and I can learn.


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Thank God you are and if it makes sense......I honestly get it
Doctors have been rather a bane to most things like me getting the wrong entire medicine for a shoulder dislocation that would make my Navy Seal/Navy Stepbros cry like babies, unreal and sorry to hear that but some of us are wired kinda gung ho and it's sort of a torture to just "chill and do nothing" until we literally have to.
great post and fingers crossed
axey


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Thank you for responding. That event occurred in 2003. I kept getting sick until 2007, but since then I've been good to go except for certain emotions. I learned that, again, the hard way. If I get anxious, the pain comes. My training has been good thought and anxiety is ALMOST a thing of the past.

I'm married, with kids, and inlaws. I feel like I'm in the anxiety olympics, lol. But seriously, I'm much better now.


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have you ever tried or heard of theanine? it's natural and an amino acid derived from green tea that induces relaxing yet alert alpha waves, it's fabulous and you can get it on Amazon, dm me if you want any more deets but it's easy to find as long as you make sure it's labeled with Suntheanie which is the patented variety of it and it's very affordable ;) stay well and glad you are self aware enough to know when to chill and let the 'noise' go.


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I haven't tried that treatment. They called what I had acute viral percarditis. It's pretty quick to treat, but due to military red tape, I felt in my youth that I had no options for treatment. I was like this for 6 months until I ended up in the emergency room.

The medicine they gave me was called indocin or indomethacin.


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Doctors need to realize they are people. They make mistakes. It's ok to say I don't know. I've had to have a word or two with doctors before and they don't like the responses as I speak calmly and without anger. My discussion with them does change their attitude though so I'm glad for it.


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Very interesting reading, stability or balance are paramount, stay calm in moments of adverse situation.

success in the contest


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I am truly glad you found your basis to keep the storms at bay. Life is full of them so you must keep your mind sharp by practicing.

Good Luck with the contest.


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Thank you very much for your response. There are at bay, but storms always test the shoreline. Please have a fine day and week.

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This one is different

Discovering that someone's peace and calm comes from another person's pains is.....I don't know what to say

I do know one thing, if someone is deriving pleasure or calmness by destabilizing another then such a human is a Virus

Such a virus needs to be eradicated and kept far away from other humans. They are infections by nature, and like any infections, need to be rooted out.

Such people unsettle and infuriates, it does no good to have them around

What we have to do is to avoid at all cost


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I thought of it in terms of yin and yang. Opposing forces of nature that exists beyond our control.

If not for the tempest, would we know the feeling of equanimity?

Would we know the difference between light and dark if one, or the other, did not exist?

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I love the philosophy behind the yin and yang

So yes, the opposing forces have to exist for the beauty of life to spring forth

And we would not know the difference between light and dark if none of them exist

For individuals though, I am saying this in a way that it unsettles to live like Ouranos

Such folks have a desire to destroy and unsettle and are chronically dissatisfied.


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Ouranos had power without the intelligence or wisdom to manage his own storms.

Humanity has the luxury and curse of both having the wisdom needed for control while willfully discarding it in favor of the Id.

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Oh! Thank you very much for the conversation. It’s a nice distraction from spreadsheets! Ugh!

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Humanity has the luxury and curse of both having the wisdom needed for control while willfully discarding it in favor of the Id.

This is nothing but the truth

Oh! Thank you very much for the conversation. It’s a nice distraction from spreadsheets! Ugh!

Lol. You are welcome, sir


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Emotions are not a hindrance. They are a wild tool we must learn to harness.

This line struck a chord with me. I'm a pretty calm person and one of my managers' feedback early on in my career was that I need to show my excitement more clearly so that people around me will feel excited. It definitely is a delicate balance and for such an important issue, one that society doesn't spend much time teaching us.


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Society definitely doesn't prepare us for the emotional onslaught life provides to us. I wonder what the world would be like if it did. Would we be Vulcans, with totalitarian control of our mental state? Would we be something more than that with an ability to utilize our emotions to near-superhuman feats? I hope so.


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