Swimming in July
Wild swimmers often report improvements in depressive symptoms and an increase in the ‘animation and vigour’
Lucy Jones • Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild
I’m swimming under water
My body undulating like an eel on the ocean bed
It is calm and cold…
and risky.
There is noise up there,
Commotion.
I can hear it. Rather I feel it.
Things seem to be happening.
And down here, it is lifeless and lonely;
My breath is what keeps me going,
yet, it is depleting,
but still, it keeps me going for now; How long do I have l
Like a fish in an infinite ocean of clear liquid, feel into the space around you as if it were water. Inhale and exhale as if you were breathing water’s thickness, drawing in and releasing the buoyant clarity surrounding you. Feel the…
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David Deida • Blue Truth: A Spiritual Guide to Life & Death and Love & Sex
Eiseley’s essay about this experience is called “The Flow of the River.” In it, he’s not only describing the Platte; he’s describing how he felt he was merging with the river. He recounts a sort of open awareness of the connections between all creatures, all nature. He wasn’t swimming in the river. He wasn’t investigating the river. He was accompan
... See moreDavid Brooks • How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
How the water? Swim in grace.