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Floating Still
“There is a moment when the water doesn’t ask you to swim. It only asks you to rest.”
After months among the springs of the Pacific Northwest, a full-moon arrival at Harbin Hot Springs.
Water teaches
Rest is not laziness ~ it is the most radical act of trust. You do nothing. And yet you are held. And sometimes the most healing thing you can do is simply arrive ~ exactly as you are ~ and let the water say yes before you’ve explained yourself.
Reflection
- Where in your life do you believe you must keep moving to be worthy?
- What would happen if you stopped ~ just for a moment ~ stripped away everything you’ve been hiding behind ~ and let yourself simply float?
This teaching closes Passage Ten of Surrender to Self, a lyric memoir in thirteen passages by Amal Lana.