Does anyone here have OCD? It can be scary and really mess me up sometimes, but I realized that since I’ve dealt with intrusive thoughts all my life, I’ve gotten good at ignoring them, so I can use that same skill on any thoughts now to detach. OCD then, was like a sort of training ground 🤔 Just a thought for today (I need to level up so I can do the chakra meditations 😆)

Dear loved ones, I am currently in the process of writing a book, and only recently I shared the first chapter publicly for the very first time. I would love to share this beginning with you as well. May it meet you where you are, and may it speak to whatever is alive in you right now. Wishing you a gentle and meaningful reading experience. +++++++++++++++++++ On the Shore of the Lake The lake lies calm and clear before Max. No wind ripples the surface—only the gentle light of the late afternoon makes it shimmer in quiet shades. He sits on a flat rock at the shore, his feet dangling just above the water. From time to time, small waves roll in from the open body of the lake and touch the stone with a soft, rhythmic sound—like the heartbeat of nature. Max is now in his forties. The years have not hardened him, but deepened him—and his awareness of the Rainbowland has grown like an inner garden. The breeze carries the scent of pine trees and damp earth toward him. For a moment, he closes his eyes—and listens. As he gazes into the calm surface of the water, he remembers those moments when he began to decipher his inner, invisible structure and assign names to it. What Max did not know at the time, but later came to understand, was this: these inner figures are not merely personal constructs of his imagination. They reflect archetypes, as described for example by C. G. Jung—universal, depth-psychological primordial images anchored in both the collective and the individual unconscious of every human being. Especially in dreams, in deep meditations, or moments of inner contemplation, these forces appear in symbolic form—as inner figures, beings, voices, or impulses. Yet this knowledge is older than any modern psychology. Ancient Chinese mythology also knows this structure. Under the collective term “Yu Di,” five mythological figures were concealed, regarded as “abstract spirits of the five elements”—each with specific helpers, powers, and orientations. The center (the personality) was surrounded by four dynamic elemental forces—another mirror of the inner order of the human being.