Overwhelmed?...

Walking on the moors this weekend and hearing the squish squish of the completely saturated land made me think of feelings of overwhelm and being out of our depth in relation to the Water element. The emotion linked to the Water element is fear and both these feelings are fear-based and are very much like saturated boggy ground, feeling unpredictable and without a stable foundation.
It is often said that if we are not growing and expanding then we are actually dying, as expansion is the nature of Spirit and the life force that flows through us. We could therefore choose to see feelings of overwhelm and being out of our depth as just a sign that we are temporarily out of our comfort zone, a period of rapidly treading water until we grow enough to catch up with ourselves again.
So next time you have that panicked feeling of overwhelm, look beneath the surface to see where you have recently grown and challenged yourself enough to take the step out into deeper water; reframe the panic for excitement at the sign that you are in the flow of life, expanding into being even more of who you really are. Now relax into this reaassurance that our Water element loves so much and take the next step forward in the flow of life.
Wishing you a lovely day, filled with boggy patches, deep lagoons and flowing rivers as we all journey with the seasons, love Carol x