22-04-2012 / The S Curve

The S Curve

I welcome you to The S Curve. We've been expecting you.

Go ahead and take your socks and shoes off.

Walk into the water. Don't be scared, it's safe.

Close your eyes for a moment. Feel the cool water caressing your feet as it flows. Listen to its sound as it takes away your worries.

Can you feel the infinity of its flow?

Now open your eyes. Do you see that abundant green surrounding you?

That's the color of life. 

The life that surrounds you.

The life that you're part of.

Listen to the music of the wind blowing through the trees. Watch them perform the Dance of Spring for you. How gently their branches move to the rhythm provided by the gusts flowing through them.

The birds in the trees provide the backup chorus to help this magnificent opus come together.

Try feeling the stones under your feet, just don't move. They are your bridge between land and water but it has to be treated with care.

Like you. 

Like me.

Do you see the trees on the left? Those are younglings. They must be 100 years old. In time, long after you and I are gone, they will be 1000 years old, like their relatives on the right. 

What you don't know is that they are excited to see you. Are you excited to see them?

The mountain has opened its eyes to greet you. She is now in the shadow and will soon fall into a slumber, but it wishes for you to bask in the sunlight while it's here. 

It will recharge you and make you feel like new.

Walk further inside the water. Just enough for it to reach your waist. 

Be one with the water. 

With the trees. 

With the stones. 

With the grass.

With the mountain.

With the sky.

With the sunlight.

Just...be...

It's time to go now. Come out of the water. The shadows need to take over in order to keep this place safe during nightfall.

But wait!

Do you see that white line on your waist?

The forest and the river have marked you as one of their own. Now you have the same mark as the trees do.

Whenever you need to let go of all that inner turbulence, you'll always be welcomed back into The S Curve.

Do you feel better now?

I hope you do.

Until next time...

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