Donna-Michelle St Bernard - Thought #2

1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 Donna-Michelle St Bernard - Thought #2 - Resistance/Release My name is Donna-Michelle St. Bernard and this is my second thought. Last night I dreamt of my brothers, both runners.&nbsp;&nbsp; We all were.&nbsp; That was a thing to do, in my family.&nbsp; A thing to be excellent at.&nbsp; Running. One thing I picked up off of them was the trick of training in water.&nbsp;&nbsp; Conditioning.&nbsp; Getting into a pool knee or waist or shoulders deep,&nbsp; running across its width as hard as possible, back and forth. For runners, accustomed to and striving for speed, it’s frustrating.&nbsp;&nbsp; the water pushing back against your efforts,&nbsp; the dissonance between your labour and the outcome.&nbsp;&nbsp; It’s hard.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; But by the time you get back to dry land,&nbsp; you are an earthman landing on the moon.&nbsp;&nbsp; Gravity is a non-factor.&nbsp;&nbsp; After engineering all of this resistance, the race is a release,&nbsp; a flight, you can achieve a seemingly superhuman speed.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; Now, in this moment, there is no need to engineer resistance, it is there.&nbsp;&nbsp; We are in it, and unless we stand still,&nbsp; we are strengthening beneath the surface.&nbsp;&nbsp; When I get back on dry land, I will be released, and I will fly.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now, I just need to understand, in this moment,&nbsp; what is the water? And what is the race? Good teaching, bro. The Thought Residencies http://www.spiderwebshow.ca <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/15852551/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/82582670