Tides

In this prompt, we'll be exploring the rhythm of tides.

Here are two ways you might like to do this.

The first prompt is an invitation to explore the feeling of that rhythm in your body.

• Find a large piece of paper and a crayon. It might be helpful to tape the paper to the table so it doesn't move around.

• Take a few centring breaths. Feel your feet on the floor. Perhaps feel the smoothness of the paper with your hands - helping to drop you into your senses.

• Return to your breath - noticing the inhale and the exhale, the incoming and outgoing tide of breath.

• With your crayon, start to link the movement of your breathing with the movement of your hand, mapping the flow on your page. There's no right way to do this, so you can't get it wrong. Go with what feels best to you.

• If you like, try having a colour in each hand, or changing colours after you feel done with the first one.

• Notice how it feels, having the tide of your breathing mapped out on the page. Do you feel any different to how you did when you began? What's it like to look at your image?

The second prompt is to think about the different areas of your life in terms of cycles and tides. 

• Find yourself a page, and divide it in half - one side is ebb, the other is flow.

• Take some time to think about the areas of your life that are important to you. Health, family, creative projects, work, sleep, spiritual practice, anything else you'd like to consider.

• Map each of these onto your page - you might like to use words, or symbols, perhaps write a few lines on what you notice. Which parts of your life feel like they're ebbing, and which are in flow?

• What do you notice when you map them as part of an ongoing cycle? Does it feel permission giving, or is there resistance to having times where the tide is receding?

• Is there anything you need more of or less of to support the phase you're in?