My daughter got 100% in her chemistry test the other day. Yes, I’m bragging but it’s not really the purpose of this post. I was helping her with some late-night, last-minute revision on the topic on the formation of… rocks! I loved Geography when I was at school, I don’t think we ever studied rocks as part of chemistry but who am I kidding, it was a while ago now! She had to remember how three different forms of rocks were formed, in a nut-shell:
· Metamorphic – formed by pressure
· Sedimentary – formed by deposits from flowing water
and
· Igneous – formed from volcanic outflow
She knows much more of the detail than that, but it got me thinking about how we bring the material into form and again, how working with the elements of nature, and those same elements within our own being might support this process.
First of all, that ever-familiar feeling of ‘pressure’. Different kinds of pressures! Financial, social, familial, physical, emotional, mental, I have felt them all, and especially so over the last eighteen months. I’ve spoken previously of that feeling of being between a rock and a hard place, or that experience of polarity in opinions that can cause this build-up of pressure, external and internal but in fact, precedes a breakthrough, after we incubate the notion of insight through various means. I suppose insight would be a phase prior to the output of actual physical proof of our internal knowing without knowing, whilst we follow through with appropriate action before our ‘rock’ comes into form, which can be a daunting process.
Flowing with the process, like water, the eb and flow of our emotions, motivation and energy levels and inspiration that can go through what feel like ‘dry desert’ periods. Likely, there is still an undercurrent, maybe metaphorically buried a few feet under. That current of life force, which is perhaps even eternal, and won’t be extinguished even in times of hardship. The river slows, in fact, to leave her pebbles by the riverbank. Through these times where we slow ourselves down, observe where we have been, what we experienced and what we have still got that can take us forward, can allow us to etch our artistry more distinctly upon the landscape that surrounds us. Or perhaps it’s during those storms, when the waves of our emotion crash up against seemingly unyielding structures, those jagged juggernauts can transform into smooth sands of gold.
Our passion and our fire, like hot lava flowing through our veins when we feel that impetus or drive re-ignite. This time allowing new unexplored territories to come into form and cool, clear thought conducting our creator-selves forwards, planting seeds within the fertile ash, along these energy lines and lights of activated rock.
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