21 Day Pure Water Journey: day 2-5

A remarkable and surprising series of events have happened. It is day 5 and the pain from a knee injury I got 6 days prior from a ski accident has totally vanished. The chronic ache that I’ve had in my lower back for over 20 years is barely noticeable, and there are what feels like deep, percolating sensations all over my brain (is this inflammation coming out of my brain? Maybe I’m activating certain parts of brain?) Either way, I totally trust whatever is happening, even if it’s foreign to me.

The water is freezing cold. Today was 1 degree celsius outside and the waters felt much colder than that. I am quickly building a more intimate connection with Her, the ocean. Since the very first day of this cold water journey, She has been still, totally pacified, with a glassy calm surface. This is unheard of! I’ve never seen the ocean so calm for so many consecutive days without some degree of wave activity. 

I believe She is responding to me and to the entire community. For the last month, I have sat on Her shores and invoked the Ringing Cedars community in spirit. Together we hold living pure images of Her and all Her marine life. Sea lions, eagles and curious otters have engaged closely with me, even responded to my calls. There is clear communication happening. Now I’m walking right into Her, demonstrating an entirely new degree of trust and receptivity. However, I do resist. My lack of surrender in the cold temperatures has come up every time, and maybe it’s meant to be that way (I can accept that).

I catch the thoughts and words I use when speaking about Her. For example, I avoid the words ‘biting’ cold, or ‘the water is hurting me’, or ‘I’m afraid of Her’. No friend would want to be spoken to that way. I’m devoted to treating her as my beloved and respected family member. Finally, after 5 days I can focus on more that just deep breathing and survival. Now I can focus on pristine origins, pristine memory, pure waters, pure origins…….I repeat these words and feel them right down to my bones as I immerse my head under the water. The entire body is filled with a chill, permeating energy, each cell is alive and I’m totally held and suspended in the present moment. I know these live waters are rewriting my cell memory. I can feel it. And my body is already demonstrating this real-time with chronic pain vanishing and injuries healing. 

The ocean is not what I thought She was. I never took the time to truly BE with Her. Only 5 days into this journey and I’ve been graced with so many gifts. I feel alive like I haven’t in a very long time. I face all my fears every time I walk into Her cold temperatures. She gives me the opportunity to face all of me, to rewrite the limiting inner narratives, and remember purity.

The more I relax and trust her, the more I can actually ‘feel’ what she is.

She is pure liquid, crystal consciousness
She is infinite, living and loving wisdom
She is ancient medicine of unmatched capacity
She is alive and breathing life into all life including my own
As of now, we are never apart again

We are one and I’m devoted to honoring our pure waters everywhere as an extension of us all, from this moment forwards