HOW DAMS ARE OUR MIRROR IMAGE!
So much of the worlds fresh water is held in dams, preventing the earth's water from flowing.
This is like a mirror image of ourselves holding on to everything. In some ways paranoid that we will lose all we have, if we let it go and end up with nothing. Afraid that we may become empty.
The water that is being held in Dams has a huge, impact on the surrounding environment. So much land loses it's life line, making it dry, losing it's vegetation, it's trees, eroding the soil. Leaving the land desolate. Yet dams are still being used and more are being created. Yet this post is not about dams. Instead it is about how the way we treat the environment reflects the way we are treated, and treat ourselves.
It is a call, for people to see the similarities, to make the connection, to start caring. To see how we are, as much a part of nature, as it is a part of us.
How in natures destruction we are destroying ourselves.
When we hold on to our emotions, when we bottle them up, we end up carrying so much with us, we end up weighting ourselves down. In doing this we stop our natural flow in life. When we are forced to control our behaviours in order to fit into society, we become in a sense dried up.
We lose our essence, our vitality. We become stuck and life becomes monotonous. We end up doing the same thing day in, day out.We become trapped in our lifestyle, just like the water is in that dam. And because of this the only thing we have left to hold on to, are our material possessions and hold on to them we do! It's the one little interlude we have, buying something new, it feels so good. It's a change, be it small, but it feels so significant.
MOVEMENT AND FLOW
Our bodies are build to move, to walk, to run, to dance to climb. To be active and when we stay active it is amazing how far our bodies can take us. Not only that but with that movement comes clarity. When things feel like they are getting on top of us, like they are caving in on us, it is the outdoors that we need to return to.
We need the space to breathe, to walk, to put things in perspective. When we are not caged in, we allow our thoughts to flow, our worries to find their solution. We become more creative, more productive.
A couple of years ago I done a trek with my children (two daughters at that time), my friend and her son. My friend and myself each had a horse that we used to carry our supplies and to carry the children when and if they got tired. We walked almost everyday for nearly 2 months.
I have never felt as healthy, both physically and mentally as I did then.
We were trekking in the mountains and at times it was challenging. But by keeping moving, we overcame each and every challenge. We dealt with things when they came up, when you are moving physically, you are thinking fluidly.
Movement, I do write alot about movement,about flow, but to me it is the one thing that connects us to all things.
When we stop moving, when we start to deny that natural cycle of life we block that connection. It is still there but it becomes buried under so much stuff! Stuff that we fill our heads with, stuff that we buy.
It then becomes harder and harder to feel connected to the world we live in. This importance we put on all that stuff is because we know we are missing something and yet we cannot identify what it is. So many become isolated, feel so alone even though they live surrounded by people.
For me it is really important that we reconnect with the natural world. In doing so we can start to bring about change.
We need to bring the wilderness, the wildness back into our lives.
We need to stop trying to tame nature, to control it , we need to wake up and see, that, that is exactly what is being done to us, that our culture is one of obedience and control.
What we have been looking for, everything we need is inside of us, it is all around us, it is the life force that connects us all together.
We just need to open our hearts to it, open our doors to those around us and move.
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As an emotional woman, I seem to spend my life damming my emotions and collecting them, then letting them out in an enormous torrent. It might not be healthy, but it's very cathartic.
I can relate to that, I do that with some emotions more than others. Always let my anger out though xx
I get your point but I don't entirely agree with your analogy: while massive, modern dams are often indeed very destructive organisms, smaller, more reasonable sized dams -- like those used in permaculture or keyline design -- are on the contrary highly productive. Used in conjunction with swales to rehabilitate damaged eco-systems, they enable rainwater to be slowed down, collected and soaked into the ground, creating fertility where otherwise it would have run off, carrying away precious topsoil and further decreasing fertility. A good dam -- often lots of small, interconnected dams, rather than one large one -- becomes an assembly point for all kinds of animals and a great source of life and fertility. In the same way, as you say, bottling up one specific emotion and obsessing over it is bad for us, but lightly carrying a number of more balanced emotions and using them to feed our minds and bodies with renewed energy can only be very good for us.
Anyway, just a thought. Thanks for the inspiration!
Thank you@nicksikorski, for your feedback, I hear what you are saying and I agree. Not all dams are damaging especially when used the right way, indeed some are built naturally by beavers. My inspiration for this post came when I was driving past a huge dam yesterday that has greatly effected the land around it. For me everything in life needs to flow, our emotions, our ideas, they need to flow through us and not be held. But I do like your analogy of a healthy dam. Thank you for stopping by and sharing that with me.
Indeed. We build a damn and flood one side and dry up the other. That is exactly what we do to ourselves.
Thank you supermama, glad you got my message xx
Yes, mama. I get you!
What a great analogy! You are so right about people getting stuck by their possessions and societies expectations.
thank you @canadianrenegade.
wow, wow, wow!!! I love reading your posts. You are such a powerful woman. Movement, flow, release, natural rhythms, minimalism, deeper meaning... yes, yes yes!! I feel all of these as I shed more layers of self-imposed restrictions and limitations, and helping others to get rid of their own junk.
I'll save this post to show my dad, he's one of those people stuck in a materialistic rut but realising there's something missing, and almost on the breaking point of starting to explore something else, inside of him...
so much love to you and your loved ones!!!
Thank you so much @bristena94 for your beautiful feedback and encouragement it means alot to me. Much love to you
my pleasure! <3 I feel we have a lot in common :)
Wow! Such a powerful post. So much wisdom here. I started crying when you described walking with your children and your friend for two months with the horses. What an incredible adventure! That really hit home for me. Yes, we need to let the wild and the flow into our lives. Thank you for this reminder. Blessings!
Thank you @katrina-ariel for taking the time to comment and leaving such lovely feedback. It really was one of the best adventures I've had so far.
Your post reminded me of a wordplay that we have here in Brazil, I´ll try to translate the best I can:
Our fellings are like water.If you don´t let a water flow, it can become a bad (má in pt) water (agua in pt). It becomes a sorrow (mágua in pt)
It does not make too much sense in english, but I think you can get the ideia.
Thx for sharing this with us. I can´t remember who said this, but it goes something like this:
Cheers!
Thank you @fireguardian, I understand totally, and I agree movement is what keeps us healthy and alive.
interesting analogy and quite fitting.
In Australia we have migratory fish which return to their place of hatch to procreate. The dams block them from doing this and they wondered why the fish were disappearing. Rather than remove the dam, though, in one place they made a lift to move the fish over the dam.
We are like dragons with our hoards of gold that we jealously guard.
Thank you @life-relearnt for dropping by and commenting, yes we certainly need to stop interferring with the natural flow of things.