Water, the most shape-shifting of elements became the perfect facilitator of my journey. Water is as much a part of our language as it is a part of our bodies and our planet. In the ancient Sumerian language, the first letter of alphabet, A, was the word for water and also signified regeneration.
Water provides us the means to communicate with each other, with ourselves, with our planet and with the cosmos - and to inspire change. Here craniosacral therapist Candice Marro is writing about her own healing art and the challenges inherent in learning that.
The extract is from an article published in the Cranial Wave Magazine (2003). It can be read in full on The Craniosacral Therapy Education Trust (UK) website. You'll find another extract posted on my website for Aquapoetics: Creative Aquatic Bodywork - Oceanic craniosacral arts.
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First tell me, do you have a quest?
Do you want to explore the moving waters of your existence? Do you like to dive deep into the unknown? Do you have in your heart nostalgia for something you can't name?
Then, open your eyes, take a deep breath, widen your attention, listen, feel, sense, taste, smell and prepare yourself. A mystery is waiting for you; something is waiting to engage with you, something that you can't imagine, you can't create, that you can only discover. You may be afraid to answer this call, you may prefer to skim the surface of the water, its uncomfortable but familiar fluctuations and its predictability. You may prefer to stick to your symptoms, resistance, identification, complexity for at least you have got used to them. You may argue that this is as good as you could do anyway, it is as far as you could go, as you are not equipped for deep exploration. And what lies beneath? Is it worth the diving, the risk and the letting go? You’re attracted to this unknown, this darkness, but you keep coming back to your familiar surroundings.
This is familiar but you feel lonely, isolated, fragmented and tired to be pushed from one wave to another, to go from one experience to another without finding the sense of it all. When you think you’ve managed to get some stability, when you think you are in control of your life, when you think you can explain and fix things, a force and the play of its groundswell takes it all away from you. So you get more and more tired of fighting, losing, gaining and losing again as you try to grasp emptiness. You keep a smile on your face, but despair and fear are ruling in your heart. You wouldn’t admit it but you're lost. Can't you see that this world of shapes you cherished and believed in is ruled by impermanence only?
So start your quest - use your grief and anger to find the strength to explore new layers. Deepen your breath, slow down your pace, get grounded and start your journey with a fellow explorer who is also not satisfied with the answers given so far and who wants to go deeper.
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