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SHARKKKKKKK!
Did you catch a glimpse of the sacred, paramid-shaped fin swimming infinity signs around your life raft? Right now, each one of you has a sleek and fearless shark torpedoing through the murky waters of your psyche. It is trusting its impossibly keen sense of smell and instinct, zeroing in on what your soul craves most. Are you going to paddle away as fast as you can and never look back? Or, are you going to glide along side it and apprentice yourself to the best hunter evolution has ever produced?
Shark people -- those who have accepted their innate sharkiness -- are high achievers. They are doers, movers, shakers, olympic swimmers. A shark’s biology keeps its body in motion its entire existence: if it stops moving, it drowns. People are like that too, metaphorically, and perhaps that’s why when our lives become stagnant, we sink to the sea floor, and after awhile become bottom feeders, hiding under rocks and living off the algae or waste of others, unable to see the light. Sharks swim in the depths, but also at the sunny surface. They live in balance and in motion; they know how to adapt, get ahead, transition, evolve, survive with efficiency and energy economy.
Sharks in our American society get a bad rap: successful gamblers, salespeople, seductive lovers... these we call “sharks”. But success does not have to mean hurting others; our intelligence and drive can serve humanity at the same time it feeds our own needs. When Shark rips through our dreams or our summer splashing at the beach, this a good time to take stock of our beliefs about money, accomplishment, competition, persuasiveness. If we fear these qualities and sublimate them in ourselves, we may keep noticing them in others, and soon find ourselves surrounded by a school of sharks (aka projection). We may thwart our own chances of success by acting like jellyfish at the very moment the universe is calling on us to sink our shark teeth into the gourmet meal that has swum into our gaping mouths.
If you are feeling weak, afraid, exhausted, confused, victimized or lethargic, envision your inner shark rising to the surface. Sharks know what they want, and go for it. They don’t wait for others to rescue them, or to throw fish crumbs their way. When the time is right, they attack. When you need to attack a problem, assert yourself, or pounce on an opportunity, let Shark out of the aquarium and into the open seas. Let it guide you to do what sharks do best... hunt, and eat!
