Last Wednesday at 6pm UK on our Weekly Wilderness Webinar we considered wrestling with our inner Rest-less-ness. This can be a strength that trail-blazes creativity and innovative breakthroughs, but it can also mean we never go deep enough to make an impact, or stick at strategies and goals until we succeed.
What is the possible wellspring of this personality trait?
It can be a substitute for self-nurturing when parents are not around in the right kind of emotionally connected way, or it can be an escape from having to deal with anxiety and pain - past and present.
How would one describe a restless character?
Easily distracted and can get quite scattered,
Seems all over the place, and constantly busy, juggling many different tasks and plans.
Prefers adventure and excitement compared to comfort or safety.
Hard to keep up with because they are always on the move.
Bounces away from uncomfortable feelings with the excuse that life is too short to stay stressed or sad.
On this occasion we went online to swim with dolphins in a deeply relaxing dolphin dreamtime meditation. I can't share with you the personal transformation experiences of participants, but I can tell you:
What happened when four cancer patients dived into the dolphin dreamtime meditation:
Please contact me if you would like to enjoy a dolphin dreamtime meditation and experience deeply-deserved rejuvenating relaxation, gain personal and professional insights, and possibly even a shift in your immune system. All because they whisper something into your inner knowing you did not realise was there. Contact me on wildernessencounterafrica@gmail.com to book Your Time to dive deep with the dolphins.
I would like to end this communication with a TRUE STORY and by celebrating the famous Italian diver Enzo Mallorca and his daughter Rossana.
They were diving in the sea near Syracuse. As Enzo descended, he felt something lightly hit him on the back. He turned and saw a dolphin. He interpreted that the dolphin did not want to play, but was trying to tell him something:
The animal dived and Enzo followed.
At a depth of about 12 feet, Enzo discovered another dolphin caught in an abandoned net. Mallorca quickly asked his daughter to give him a diving knife, and in a few minutes, they managed to free the desperate dolphin. The captive dolphin was on the last of his strength, and let out an ′′almost human cry′′ (as Mallorca himself put it).
A dolphin can survive under water for up to 10 minutes, then it sinks.
The freed, still dazed dolphin, Enzo, his daughter, Rossan and the dolphin who had originally alerted the famous diver that his friend was trapped, surfaced, and took a deep breath. Rossan and Enzo were due another surprise: the dolphin they had just rescued, soon gave birth to a baby dolphin.
The dolphin who called out to Enzo to rescue his drowning cetacean colleague, was actually the father of the new born. As the mom, dad and new babe swam away joyfully free, the father made a circle, swam back to Enzo, and touched his cheek (like a kiss) - a gesture of gratitude... and then swam away again.
Enzo responded: "until a person learns to respect nature and talk to the animal world, he will never know his true role on Earth."
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The Weekly Wilderness Webinar next week o 14th August, 2024 at 6pm UK time, is titled:
ARE YOU FEELING STRESSED HAVING TO CHASE THE NEXT PRESSURISED, PINNACLE OF ACHIEVEMENT?
Do you find it really hard to accept failure or imperfection, or is your self-esteem perched precariously on achieving excellence?
Do you find yourself wasting time sweating the small stuff?
Then please JOIN ME this week as we safari online and dip into the life of
the BUSY WORKER BEE
to reflect and find out how to stop telling ourselves that Life is only about achieving and producing results.
Email me on wildernessencountersafrica@gmail.com if you would like to be included on future Weekly Wilderness Webinars details on a weekly newsletter.
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