Nature & Wellbeing Meditations Blog
ACHIEVING THE UNACHIEVABLE - (Four steps to get you there) -Releasing the Overwhelm
Have you ever wondered why you procrastinate? Procrastination may be a trauma response, it may be fear, anxiety or boredom and on and on. In essence, some part of our nervous system is in a state of overwhelm whether consciously or unconsciously.
There is a sense of freedom in not having to be anything for anybody else. To be able to share our full selves and to be seen and held in doing so. Often we feel or are even told we need to show up in a certain way, we have to hide a part of who we are to be "presentable" or "acceptable" to those around us
It is so easy to castigate and berate ourselves for not taking action. But what if we could be compassionate with ourselves. What if we could explore the pain and wounding that has often been stuck inside us since childhood. What if we could release that pain to create a more empowered experience for ourselves?
Here's an interesting article which speaks of "Eutierria" or "A positive feeling of oneness with the earth and it's life forces" https://www.psychologytoday.com/…/eutierria-becoming-one-na…
It is most certainly true that after several years of drought, the California landscape desperately needs the rain. It also can be said that time in the rain allows us to get close enough to our discomforts to create a different more empowering relationship with them. And yet, what I really want to share a focus on, is the actual pleasures we get to experience by being in the rain.
I arrive at the put in to Little Trout Bay in Canada
at about 8:30p.m. and by 9:00p.m. my kayak loaded, I'm
on the water. As I paddle into the bay, the sky behind
me is filled with wisps of scarlet clouds, the effects
of the setting sun. The water is glassy and tinged a
deep green. As I get closer to the open waters of Lake
Superior the call of Loons echoes through the air. The
night sky is dark before me now and I am gently rising
and falling with the swells on the still glassy
waters…
