Just like water flowing, this practice invites you to follow the path of least resistance. However, do not forget that the creeks and rivers can be a powerful force that shapes our landscape.

Riding the Waves Card Reading:
All experiences are meant to come and go, like waves in the ocean. Emotions are meant to surge, be fully felt, and then subside. If you block emotional waves before they come to the shore, you might feel constricted, numb, or cut off from yourself. Or, you might worry that you will be flooded by a tidal wave of feelings. Riding the waves of your emotions, you invite yourself to be raw and real. Practice in the shallows as you build your strength. Eventually, you can learn to relate
to all of your experiences with equanimity and self-compassion. Set your sails for a journey of self-discovery.

Have patience, we cannot force our growth, Trust that you will unfold according to the wisdom of the deep cycles of nature within you. Within this practice I invite you to let go of any need to Force. Rather, meet yourself where you are. Follow your own path of least resistance, this is the spirit of self-acceptance.

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As Bruce Lee said, “Be like water making its way through the cracks”

Fluent by John O’Donohue
I would love to live
Like a river flows,
Carried by the surprise
of its own unfolding

Give up the fight By Gretchen Haley
Give up the fight
For some other moment
Some other life
Than here, and now
Give up the longing
for some other world
The wishing
for other choices to make
other songs to sing
other bodies, other ages,
other countries, other stakes
Purge the past; forgive the future –
for each come too soon.
Surrender only to this life,
this day, this hour,
not because it does not
constantly break your heart
but because it also beckons
with beauty
startles with delight
if only we keep
waking up
This is the gift
we have been given:
these “body-clothes,”
this heart-break, this pulse
this breath,
this light,
these friends,
this hope.
Here we re-member ourselves
All a part of it all –
Still growing, together.