How do salmon swim against the powerful currents of a river and even jump ten-foot high waterfalls? In the midst of this global Coronavirus pandemic, our resilience is being tested - big time - both individually and collectively. And yet, there are guiding principles that allow us to actually accelerate and evolve our capacity to respond while dealing with intense disruption.
Redwood seed pods actually need the heat of a forest fire to explode open and take root. It’s possible that the leadership capacity “seeds” that you’ve been cultivating for years might actually pop open now, with these unlikely “nutrients of disruption.” What if this is a time of accelerated growth for you to show up for others through a deeper connection with quantum consciousness. The old adage says, a crisis is a terrible thing to waste.
The salmon don’t actually fight against the currents of the river - they actually find are pockets of cross-currents that literally pull or suck them upstream. Incredible! But not impossible. I’ve heard that magic is just science that we don’t yet understand. So, there is a science to accelerating and rising to the challenge in the midst of catastrophic crisis.
These are the moments that we’ve been training for. There is no need to “do” anything more than what you already are noticing is here for you to do. Just allow your training to naturally express itself, like the salmon naturally, instinctively, knows how to swim upstream. It’s just what it does.
Lastly, a folk tale - the student says to the old master: it looks like you never fall down at all, you just flow through life effortlessly. The teacher replies: I am falling down every moment, I just pick myself back up quickly and keep going.
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PS…Here is another VERY useful article, with wisdom from Otto Sharma - an image below from that article, that speaks to this principle of rising to the challenge:
