Today Querida and I went into the river……An elemental healing experience.
These experiences always surprise me, and I mostly just share what happened. I write as I watch (or witness as some call it) the healing. I find more and more that the connections expand and open as we allow rather than resist, engaging with elements, crystals, energy, colours, light, animals, or environmental support such as trees, mountains, forests, rivers and seas. All is connected and it is only within us to open to, or resist, that connection. Resistance creates bottlenecks of unreleased energy which in turn creates emotional and physical responses.
The support provided by all connections is powerful and yet gentle. The rhythms I listen to retain me in the connection, emptying the mind of all except what is happening, so my mind is free to interpret the sensations that are shared through the connections.
Connect and be held. Open your energy………..
As Querida and I drop into the energy we find the water element again supporting, this time as a river, into which we wade together. There is a sense of trust as we share our experience.
At the throat : there is an opening. The sense of irritation in the throat has left and the throat opens, singing, releasing, letting go.
Then a feeling of anxiety/fear in the solar plexus. We both drop into the river to sit on the river bed. A knot forms in the throat. We just sit with these feelings for a while.
As we sit under the water a sense of struggling to breathe; holding the breath / resistance to breathing. Turning this way and that, wanting to escape, but not wanting to leave yet. A feeling of ‘can’t get a breath’ and then taking a deep breath. Painful as the breath drops into the lungs. Lungs look old and mottled, like balloons after use.
Water is now pouring into the lungs, filling and cleansing, loving the lungs; washing through and out, purifying. As the lungs empty they are now healthy, clean and bright.
We surface the river. Air is taken in now and filtered through. The air element supporting the water element. Heartbeat strengthening and body strengthening in alignment. Another breath. Shoulders opening.
Wading out of the river on to the land. Roaring. I am here! I am strong!
Fixing to the ground. A vibration through each hoof like a spike. Walking forward, each spike rising and reconnecting with the earth. Trotting. Running.
Stopping, reconnecting to the earth. Brief red circle of light around the feet giving strength to the connection. The air through the mouth, a breeze through the mane and tail, air blowing across the skin. Breathing the air in deeply now. Lightness throughout the body; joy; strength. A feeling of being alive. Love.