One thing about living in a coastal area is that many strong currents of water and air and heat and cold intermingle to create all manner of effects. If you want a chance to get close to Nature and learn her language, opening all your senses to what is going on with weather is wonderful training. Sailors of old would spend so much time reading the waves and the skies and the cloud formations because their very lives depended on knowing what was coming and responding in best possible way. If you looked at their faces when they are looking out to sea, you would observe imprinted on their features a depth of understanding and respect that landlubbers do not so easily attain. Watching the weather channel does not help you to develop your innate sensing and feeling about what is going on in the atmosphere.
In short, I suggest we weather weather in the same way we weather our emotional storms (another form of weather). We become very very familiar with the movement of the elements in nature and the currents in our own emotional field as well. Yes, to become really good, you must study long and hard, but it will make you a good sailor, and give you that look in your eye that others come to respect.
About six years ago, I wrote a fictional account of a man who learned to communicate with weather. It was entitled "Talking to Hurricanes". Yes, it was fictional in that I made it up but it was based on things I am aware of about our latent abilities. It is time for us to go fishing about what abilities we had once, lost and now need to retrieve to bolster our arsenal of means to live a rich life at all times no matter what the challenges. Clearly erratic weather patterns (and emotional excesses) are on the rise. I suggest we all spend a part of each day looking at the skies, the horizon at sunrise and sunset, watch your dogs wiggle their noses when the wind blows and see if you too cannot detect something in the air that your body understands better than your mind. I also check in with my inner weather of feelings regularly and so often, what shows up is a feeling of vulnerability that seems to come out of nowhere. As I stay with that kind of weather just as the good, observant sailor, slowly my confidence builds that I have what it takes to weather most anything, so long as I just take things as they come and accept I am a sailor in training. Live long enough and I am going to get really good at this weathering the weather thing!
In short, I suggest we weather weather in the same way we weather our emotional storms (another form of weather). We become very very familiar with the movement of the elements in nature and the currents in our own emotional field as well. Yes, to become really good, you must study long and hard, but it will make you a good sailor, and give you that look in your eye that others come to respect.
About six years ago, I wrote a fictional account of a man who learned to communicate with weather. It was entitled "Talking to Hurricanes". Yes, it was fictional in that I made it up but it was based on things I am aware of about our latent abilities. It is time for us to go fishing about what abilities we had once, lost and now need to retrieve to bolster our arsenal of means to live a rich life at all times no matter what the challenges. Clearly erratic weather patterns (and emotional excesses) are on the rise. I suggest we all spend a part of each day looking at the skies, the horizon at sunrise and sunset, watch your dogs wiggle their noses when the wind blows and see if you too cannot detect something in the air that your body understands better than your mind. I also check in with my inner weather of feelings regularly and so often, what shows up is a feeling of vulnerability that seems to come out of nowhere. As I stay with that kind of weather just as the good, observant sailor, slowly my confidence builds that I have what it takes to weather most anything, so long as I just take things as they come and accept I am a sailor in training. Live long enough and I am going to get really good at this weathering the weather thing!
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