Rewilding. Wildswimming

Brain freeze

Added 2023-10-23 05:36:08 +0000 UTC

It's incredible how a week can change the experience of wildswimming... Now with colder water temperatures for me is about maximising contact and connection with water and surroundings even more.

Each time I go to the river these days I'm swimming half or a fourth of what I used to weeks ago. Changing habits with the season, without stopping swimming, or dipping. Being gentle to self, not clinging onto expectations, surrendering to what it is. Loving the moment, being more conscious of breath, of sensations in the body (brain 'freeze', hands and feet becoming more sensitive...), and emotions. Also more conscious about changes in perception of time, and how it slows down when I'm there and when I get out.

Yesterday I had a good chat with robin, who was on a fig tree by the river. Tonight I dreamt with robin, I had managed to communicate with them and they came closer and closer to me until the point when I was holding them in my hands, placed like a bowl. Such a cosy part of the dream. That'd be a dream come true!

In the last month and a half or so we're renovating a house to rent here in the village. There's a lot to do and still don't have electricity (we haven't moved there yet), little by little. But to build a bug hotel and a bird feeder are definitely on the biiiiiig list of things that we want to do (probably after cleaning the garden of scatters from a collapsed barn...) 🙌🏾 Little by little... feeling very grounded about it all, such a relief... Having a calmed mind with so much stimulation from things to do or to fix is greatly appreciated. River dips, yoga, Qigong and being outdoors are my pillars for wholeness.

Have you got a bird feeder or bug hotel, or made them yourselves? Feel free to share on the community chat 💚