Tag: fluid

Flux is the consequence of an unbecoming, on the way to a new becoming, but not yet there. It is a condition of potential unrealized, its power in its uncertainty.

The self is imagined to be a fluid, like a puddle of water, and external circumstances are thought of as something like a sponge, sucking the self into its matrix so that the two become as one.

There are few survivors who can tell us what it feels like to actually drown. The feeling of drowning, however, is familiar to many. A drowning person is still conscious, still has some… more emotion Drowning

Emotionally, we contain many different kinds of lifesaving devices, the psychological equivalents of inflatable vests or floating inner tubes.

To be in turmoil is to feel mixed up. To feel turbid is akin to being immersed in murky water filled with sediments disturbed from the below. These emotions share the metaphorical foundation… more emotion Stirred Up

Turbid emotions are the result of turbulent psychological currents that stir up the muck from the bottom of the mind to muddy the mental waters. Turmoil has some share in this sense of… more emotion Turmoil