“To enter the flow of life with ease and grace is to realise you need not force, push, pull, manipulate, or coerce anything or anyone to create a flow of abundance; you need only allow it to lift and carry you…”
I relate this so much to swimming, and perhaps my current life situation which I have realized upon immersing in, I have dissuaded myself from the practice of grace.
A lot of people struggle to swim. My mum’s lower half sinks as she freestyles forward. And then there are friends who feel like they are shaped to sink like a rock. 🪨 I never quite analyzed my relationship to water and being in it, but this quote perfectly summarizes how I move with it…. With ease and grace, not needing to push, pull, or coerce. I simply let the water carry me and manoeuvre my naturally buoyant body to glide through it.
Funny to think this could be a simple metaphor for life. The difference is, in water we are using our bodies to move. In life we utilize our minds, our thoughts and our feelings. Can you imagine if we pondered the angle of our arm, the speed of our breathing and the whereabouts of our feet each time we tried to move around in water? We’d sink! Our analysis of the process of moving would get the better of us. In other words, we don’t really ‘think’ about the action of swimming. At least, the analytical mind is at rest, and the free flow mind is active.
When we feel ourselves as a part of the water, we cab move through it in a way that feels like effortless ease and grace…
I love to teach people how to swim like this in their lives. And of course I am still learning to swim in my own. It takes practice - moving from mind to body, and it takes mastery to notice the signs of when acute emotions (grief, anger, misalignment) will call us to do so..
Most of the time we can make logical resolutions. However when it starts to feel like you are pushing, pulling, forcing or trying, it might just be a signal to come back. Move down from your mind to your heart…
And just like that, you’ll find yourself gliding and being with life again. 🌸
Love,
Jules
