Welcome to this guided visualization on the journey of water.
Through this process,
We are gonna dance along in the life cycle of water and embody it and feel it.
Let it move through us.
So I'm inviting you to find a comfortable place,
Sitting or laying down where you won't be disturbed for the next little while.
And then as you feel comfortable and aligned,
And relaxed,
Starting to close your eyes,
Drop into your inward self.
Feeling your bones get a little bit heavier,
Sinking into the earth with the effect of gravity.
Starting to notice your breath,
Inviting it into a little bit of a deeper inhale through your nose,
And then exhale through your mouth.
Letting a sigh out if those feel good for the next few breaths.
And just shifting your perception from being in the outer world into the inner world.
Giving yourself this little bit of time to be and have an experience.
And starting to tune into the water in your body,
The blood and the lymph and the saliva.
Feeling it flowing around you and through you.
And choosing one drop of this water to focus on.
This molecule of H2O,
Hydrogen and oxygen,
Building block of so much life.
And as you focus on and become this one molecule of water,
This one drop of water,
You can start the journey of water through evaporation.
As the sun hits you,
Starting to get lighter,
Feeling yourself getting lighter,
Starting to float on the water.
Off the ground.
Floating away from the earth,
Going higher and higher.
10 feet,
20 feet,
100 feet.
600 feet,
1,
000 feet.
And as you rise up and rise up,
You start to find other drops of water that have evaporated.
You start to coalesce and connect and to form a cloud.
And as more drops of water form your cloud,
You get bigger and darker,
Denser.
At the point of fullness,
You break and the cloud begins to spill all of you out onto the earth.
And as a little drop,
You start to fall.
Like jumping out of an airplane as a human.
Falling through the air faster and faster.
Descending,
Jumping,
Diving,
Moving.
Maybe with bolts of lightning around you and thunder.
It's a little chaotic.
But as you fall towards the ground,
Finding that terminal velocity,
And okay,
Acceptance onto the next.
And as you fall and fall and fall,
And finally you splat into the earth on a high mountain pass among pine trees and rocks.
And you start to descend into the soil.
Down amongst the microbes and the fungi that are under the ground and feeling root systems and passing them by on this journey.
Descending down deeper into the earth through sand and rock into the deep darkness.
As you find your way into an underground aquifer.
Joining once again with the other molecules of water,
Other drops of water in this place of deep,
Dark stillness.
And who knows?
Maybe you're there for a day,
A month,
A year,
50 years.
This journey of water can be slow.
And as you find your time in the earth and you find your structure as happens when water is in the earth,
Start to see a little bit of light coming.
And as you start to drift towards that light,
It becomes brighter and brighter.
Until finally you are swirled out into a beautiful mountain spring.
Bubbling down the face of the mountain.
No trees around right now.
Somehow above the tree line now.
As you're bubbling down,
Flowing,
There's a little,
A little spring.
The most delicious water imaginable.
Clean and pure,
Filtered from the earth.
Offered from the sky.
And as you bubble down,
You encounter some more springs and slowly form into a little bit bigger creek.
Flowing down this mountainside.
Gushing,
Swirling,
Jumping off little rocks.
And then boom,
You're an airborne,
A little creek waterfall flying through the air,
Free and then whoosh,
Splashing together again with all the other molecules.
And then boom,
Jumping again.
Separation,
Uniqueness,
And then coalescing at the bottom of the waterfall.
Continuing the journey down the mountain.
Burbling,
Gushing,
Playful.
And as this creek continues to wind down the mountainside and into the mountain valley,
Starting to gain more water through other creek connections,
Other springs.
Gaining in size,
Noticing yourself as a drop getting a little more lost in the cacophony of all the water drops.
Until you finally flow into a lake.
Coming in through the gurgling and the splashing and settling into some stillness.
Lazy day on the lake in a valley with large mountains on all sides and covered in pine trees.
It's quiet,
It's peaceful.
And all of a sudden,
A heron comes and slides into the water next to you,
Flying low and then dropping down to float.
And you can sense the life in this lake,
The frogs and the fish swimming around you,
Dancing with them,
Playing with them.
And all the insects that are being supported by your water drop.
This fundamental part of our life cycle,
Feeding the frogs and the fish and the birds and on and on.
And as you float lazily across the lake,
Maybe you're there a day,
A month,
A year,
You start to hear a rushing.
You start to feel yourself picking up speed a bit.
And then you hit the edge of the lake and you fall again into a creek,
Rushing down the valley,
Nourishing the valley as it passes,
Providing the green,
Nourishing the trees,
Nourishing the bees,
Flowing down,
Down,
Down,
Mixing with other creeks and finally becoming a river.
Much bigger,
Much more power,
Much more,
Much more water.
And as you flow down this river,
You encounter a stretch of flat,
A lazy river,
Kind of meandering through the landscape,
Making giant S-curves through canyons,
Dropping out of the mountains and into the desert.
Flowing down.
Occasionally going over some rocks,
A little rapids,
A little bit of dancing,
A little bit of shaking,
Excitement.
And then back to your lazy flow,
Continuing down,
Nourishing the land,
Witnessing the beauty of the desert,
The canyon.
And all of a sudden you start to feel a rumble and vibration coming through the water all around you.
A low roar.
And as you continue floating,
Starting to pick up speed,
It becomes louder and louder.
And all of a sudden you are tossed over a rock and up and under a rock and over a rock.
And in a big hole you swirl as you go across that giant rapid in the river.
You get caught in a recirculating rapid and you twist and you spin and you spin and eventually you get kicked out.
Through all this chaos,
Get a little disheveled and then end up in an eddy where the river goes back upstream,
This pocket of calm amongst the chaos.
And then here in the spot right next to the rapid in the eddy,
You can notice all the action and be in stillness.
But eventually you get swirled around and swirled around a few times in the eddy and you get kicked out back into the river to continue your float downstream.
Back to a lazy part of the river,
Flowing smoothly,
Slowly.
Passing by big cliffs and bighorn sheep,
Animals of the desert.
Through night and day as the sun sets and rises,
The moon sets and rises over you,
Feeling the pull of the moon on your little drop of water as it just crosses the sky left to right.
And then once again,
You start to hear a roar but this time a much more massive roar.
The roar starts rumbling through the water.
It's vibration powerful and deep.
And as you continue to approach it,
It gets louder and louder and louder.
And there's some fear in you.
What's gonna happen?
It's so loud.
I've never encountered something this loud in my whole journey of being a water drop.
And then as it reaches its peak of loudness,
All of a sudden,
Boom,
You are flying.
You're in the air.
You just jumped off a waterfall and you're flying and you're flying into a very big waterfall.
You just keep flying and flying and flying.
The wind is buffeting you as the waterfall creates its own wind currents,
Buffing you left and right as you continue your descension of gravity along the course of this waterfall until at the very bottom,
You splash against the rocks,
Rejoin the rest of the river as you became a part of that rumbling,
That cacophony,
Chaos.
And then you continue your way down the river following the path of least resistance through the farmlands,
Through the flatlands,
Nourishing again the plants and the people as you go by the fish and the animals within your banks,
Finding the boundaries of your body,
The river,
The riverbanks,
And dancing between them,
Flowing downstream again in a slow way,
In a lazy way,
The lazy river.
But yet again,
You come upon a loud roar starting to happen,
But this is more of a crashing crash.
In a very rhythmic pattern,
You approach slowly and you,
As a freshwater drop,
Start to encounter salty drops.
The different density,
You dance together,
Forming different layers.
But eventually the salty drops overwhelm you and you also become a salty drop.
As you enter the ocean,
Coming through the river delta,
Dropping any sediment to nourish the land and finding yourself in a big wave,
Getting circulated up and crashing down and then getting circulated up again,
Up high and crashing down,
Ebbing and flowing,
Playing with the sand and the beach,
Playing in the waves,
Dancing.
It's a big swell.
There's a lot of big waves in this moment that you hit the ocean.
You see surfers and dolphins playing in the waves.
Underneath the waves,
You see so many fish and turtles and reefs,
So much beauty.
Then you find yourself on top of a wave,
Cresting over,
Falling down,
Curling,
Splashing,
Playing.
And as the swell recedes and the oceans calm,
You find yourself in a more of a lapping wave.
Gently curling over small waves,
Riding up the sand and descending back.
And almost as if a massage to the earth,
To the sand,
To the beach.
And under the moonlight,
Just gently lapping and receding,
Flowing up,
Coming back,
Ebbing and flowing.
Until finally you start to get swept out to sea.
And you find yourself amongst millions and trillions of other drops.
A part of the vast ocean with the dark depths below you,
The darkest depths.
And just feeling what it's like to be a part of such an ocean,
Dissolving any individuality of your individual water drop.
Coalescing with all the other water drops and water molecules of this ocean,
Of this earth,
And feeling that connection.
Through these waters,
We are connected to every place on earth,
Nearly.
And as you continue to tune into that connection,
And bringing it back into your human body,
This one water drop that's been on this journey,
That's so connected now to all the water drops of this planet.
Feel it circulating through your blood,
To all there is,
And all the places on this earth,
And all the water,
And all the rivers,
And the oceans,
And the waterfalls,
And the creeks,
And the aquifers,
And the other animals,
And other humans.
Through water,
We are connected.
And joining me in a prayer that the water may forever be clean and clear in your body,
In my body,
And in all bodies on this earth,
And all the rivers,
And lakes,
And streams,
And oceans.
May it be clear,
May it be clean,
May it be alive.
You can stay in this feeling,
This connection with the water,
With the life,
As long as you want.
And if you're ready,
Start wiggling your fingers and toes,
Coming back to your physical body,
And giving yourself a big stretch in some direction,
And slowly opening your eyes.
