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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.
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.
- 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?
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There is a moment when the water doesn’t ask you to swim. It only asks you to rest.
Rest is not laziness ~ it is the most radical act of trust.
You do nothing. And yet you are held.
Rest is not weakness.
Healing can be soft.
You are already 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.
This teaching closes Passage Ten of The Well Being of Water: Surrender to Self, a lyric memoir in thirteen passages by Amal Lana.