“I did this short stint as a snorkel instructor while I was living in Hawaii,” she tossed out like she just told me she swatted a fly, and just kept talking from there.
I couldn’t keep listening because the place we were seated in was windy and I thought I had misunderstood her when she went on to start talking about swimming with turtles!
“Wait. What did you say? Did you say you were a snorkel instructor in Hawaii?!”
She stopped talking and paused with almost a bit of embarrassment in her facial expression.
“Yes. Just for a little while. I wanted to go to Hawaii, but I couldn’t afford it as a vacation. I was young so I thought, I’ll just move there. So I did.”
I was in awe. I have always envied women who just up and moved places as they wanted to with no thought of how to support themselves, or being alone, or any of the things I was taught to be afraid of when I was a young woman.
We had been having a conversation about “allowing.” You know, like allowing good things to come into your life, as opposed to the work hard and hunt it down mindset many of us come from. In the midst of talking about “allowing” is when I became completely distracted by Hawaii and snorkeling and the simple fact that I just learned something really cool about this friend.
Eventually she got to finish her story.
“When I was living in Hawaii, I would take groups out snorkeling and people would often want to see and pet sea turtles. So, every time I was out I would tell the group to let the turtles come to them, and every time people would swim after the sea turtles and the turtles of course would swim away. If you swim after the turtles it scares them and they can swim faster than humans can so they win. BUT,” she went on, “if you just float near them, they’re curious and they will swim towards you and then you can touch them. The hard part was getting people to be patient and wait for the turtles to come to them.”
We are so darn human… I, ME, am so darn human!
So often when we are wanting, wishing, dreaming, desiring something in our lives we want to swim after it. Our mindset of hard work, the early bird gets the worm, chasing your dreams, gets in our way and we think we have to pursue fervently, everything we desire.
Spirit tells us time and time again, to open up, to connect with our worth, to soften our field and allow our desires to find us in our peace. Then, when it doesn’t show up the first day, we go right back to working hard as a means of chasing after it. We work on thinking the right thoughts, the right way, we work on visualizing our desires like they are already here, we swim like Hawaiian tourists to catch the things we want. While all we are asked to do… is allow.
Just like the tourists we get impatient. We think we aren’t being clear about what we want. Perhaps Spirit didn’t get the memo. We hand it over and take it back again a thousand times just trying to touch the thing we are dreaming of.
Channel your inner snorkeling guide; Float. Be peaceful. Let yourself be entertained by all the other things around you and soon you find that your desires flow towards you.
Sure. sometimes it takes longer than we would like, and again, float. Connect with all the other beauty and abundance that fills your life and before you know it. You’ll be touching your dreams.
Forever the journey, Anne