Diving In
A very clear dream at 2:30 am: I take off shoes and socks and dive into a body of still water from a very high place.
I stopped swimming and diving in grade school. Something happened in my psyche and my life that brought this to a halt.
Back to dream: I’m aware I’ve never dived like this before but I don’t hesitate. I do think about the motion and angles as I visualize the dive. I plunge in. My arc is rather flat but I’m in the water and swimming. Now I think about my location in that large body of water realizing I can’t swim across it so I decide to swim along the edge where the landscape is familiar and where I can land when I need to. Then the dream frame changes and I’m with a woman friend who is leaving a job…
The dive reminds me of my new voice. I notice I am talking more without any hesitation or filters. I’m saying whatever comes up and….through….there’s the dive! I do want to have some brakes….some *down shifting of action and *up shifting of awareness. This trust, this knowing, is so like that dream dive. I’m simply in motion.
I’m reminded of the eyes I dove through during Nashville meditation. I do know how to swim and dive in mystical waters. That has been and continues to be my focus. And I *teach this !!