Pulling In The Tentacles
Sink, slowly, with me…. literally: close your eyes and lean back softly.
Allow yourself to gently sink into your chair, sofa or bed, I have no notion of where you may be, as we play together here.
Close your eyes and become soft. It is almost impossible to arrive at the place we want to go to by having only read or listened to this episode. There are steps to take first. Please take them if you have not already.
You want, notice this word, you want, to Trust Me.
You Want to To Trust me enough to allow yourself to become soft and pliable.
I will not use you, I promise. I want to show you, teach you things, about what you are capable of being. I am your guide and we are in, for you, the Unknown, the Lands of Divinity, the Lands of Stillness, the Lands of Being and Acceptance.
Sink with me, down, down, down. Feel yourself dropping through a warm, gently buffeting, dark and utterly safe sea.
I know. I know. Be soft. The moon is full, you can see everything, I promise.
We are deep down in the Aegean Sea, by the potent, that word again, light of the full moon. She smiles as she watches you sink gently down to the sea bed.
Look up and see the surface of a calm sea. See the moon above, glimmering, sending beams deep, deep down into the bed of the sea. Feel the granules of sand beneath you, notice a large sea urchin passing one of your tentacles….
I know!
You are an octopus on the bed of the sea and it is wild, wondrous, magical! Who knew I would take you here? Who knew you could do this, be this!
There is no threat. We are so deep, so far away from fishermen.
Calm yourself, relax your forehead, slow your breath down. Go soft, smile and allow yourself, to have an awareness of how you breathe, through gills at the side of your head. Feel that pulsation, how it ripples through the mantle of your head. Become conscious of your three hearts, nine brains and 2000 suckers, all yours, all at your behest. Extend your awareness out, out, 360 degrees around you. Move yourself out, wide, in 8 directions, feel the movement, be in the depth of the sea, deep in a memory, a consciousness, that you can link with.
Who knew it could be this trippy, to be under the sea, as an octopus.
You can rest down here for a while, savouring the beauty of being an octopus.
Begin to move, to play, pull in a shell, find another, make yourself a hide. Change colour, feel the pulsation of light moving over you as you blend in to your surroundings. Stretch out your tentacles and move along the sea bed, climb up a rocky bank, watch the sea life move around you.
And now try your jet propulsion: pull in water, inside your body and then force it out and the wildest thing will happen! You will go backwards and drag all your tentacles behind you. You can cover huge distances.
Go, play, I am with you, I will bring you back, I promise.