The Inside Passage

!: The Inside Passage

Undulating landscape

My recent trip to Southeast Alaska had me reflecting very strongly. We sailed up what is known as the Inside Passage which was wonderful. Such stunning natural beauty. The landscape filled with rocky outlines of the granite mountains rising from the sea, snow capped peaks, lush green forests, icy blue waters the incredible shades of white and various blue hues of the glaciers. Truly captivating scenery, nature at its best showing us her outer and inner self.

Our bodies

I could not help but liken the undulating landscape to the terrain of our own bodies. The peaks and crevices that shape who we are, the crests and vales that rise and dip all over us. How we have openings and passages that contain, hold, emit, taste, hear and see.

I likened that to our own Inside Passage(s) that have a world of their own working away ceaselessly in order to keep our body in perfect harmony. The automation continuing unabatedly just like what I witnessed in Alaska.

The mixture of the male and female, the folds and the flow of the 'sea' of the body (the skin) with smooth and rough exteriors. Watching a glacier calving was just like the falling away of the placenta during the birthing process. The sweet scent of the air in which natures magic dances just as our scents when activated pervade the atmosphere when up close and personal.

The Self

Then there is the Inside Passage of Self, of Mind. The place where we hold our feelings, sway with our emotions, weave our reality. The place where we fantasize, where we explore the sensations of our body.

The seasons depicted by our sunny disposition, the stormy emotional response, the light hearted playfulness where there is a spring in the step or the falling away and surrender of wanting to retain too firm a grip on an utterance or a feeling.

Feeling good, feeling joy, feeling playful, feeling happy, a recipe for general wellbeing. Intimacy and sexual satisfaction an extremely pleasurable part of life.

The passage of Life has much to offer if we simply choose to be open enough to let it all in.