Are You True Blue?

No, this picture's blue hues have not been doctored. However, this pool should not have been here at all. At least that's what the geologists and engineers, the experts, thought. In 1966 the McKenzie River was dammed upstream, blocking the waterfall that used to cascade into and create the pool. Or did it? Mysteriously, water continued to fill this area up! How was that possible, the experts asked? Ah ha! From underground, the McKenzie River 'springs' back to life, creating this mini-lake, sans waterfall, as cold as ice and as pure as it is translucent. (Faint ripples on the old waterfall side of the lake reveal its source!)

How often do you get distracted or diverted by 'expert' influences from your natural flow? Worried about what others might think of your ideas, your hopes, your desires? Covering your struggles and pain with busyness or anger or by relying on a favorite vice?

Diversions keep you from facing what 'is', creating a pent-up reservoir. Hiding who you are robs you of living authentically and in the present. Life, and you, become an unnatural, manipulated blue, your true expert within held hostage. 

How can you access your true expert? Find your natural flow? Two trails can lead to your blue pool:

1. Begin by embracing COURAGE. Courage to stop, look and listen. Might you discover what you really value, so much so that it doesn't matter what others say? Be ready to move forward once you access such reasons to be; they're powerful! Might you get mentally or emotionally bruised in the process? Those can only and will heal if exposed and tended to. 

This brings me to the next trailhead: 

2. Let others SUPPORT you. No one, including you, has to, or is on the planet to go it alone. Yes, asking for support is vulnerable, but once you've activated your courage, use some of it to ask for the comfort or guidance you need. Be surprised neither by others' willingness to help you nor by your growing energy to take deep care of yourself and others. 

Here's to being true blue, 

Dana