Showers are portals
When I'm grumpy, it's because I haven't taken a shower in a few days
Showers are portals. There I said it.
It’s true. Whenever I take a shower, I feel like a completely different person afterwards. I’ve always had this deep connection to water, despite having mostly fire energy inside of me. Although, maybe it balances me out.
Either way, whenever I am in the worst of moods, it’s usually because I haven’t showered recently. Even though life is tough, it’s surprisingly the lack of showering that tends to be the source of my grumpiness.
I just need someone to remind me of that, when I am in my own head.
Showers change my world.
I think it’s because the water cleanses my energy. And, for a brief time, I am focused on my body and her well-being. Cleaning myself, helps clear everything around me. My thoughts, feelings, worries, and so on. They melt away after a shower.
Showers even fix moods that food can’t fix.
That’s how necessary showers are for me. I love them. But, sometimes I fall out of routine, and feel too busy to shower. Although that’s never the case because showers are essential to my life force.
It’s that easy and that hard.
I think that this love for showers extends to putting my feet in bodies of water, such as lakes and oceans. I love getting my feet wet. Maybe that’s the important part: grounding myself into the water. At least, it’s part of my need for showers. I love just standing in a lake, flowing with the waves. Dancing the dance of the lake waves that come into the shoreline. It’s grounding. It’s powerful.
Showers are portals. It’s truth.
Thanks for Being here,
D
Your word-choice & style/tone/delivery always make reading your posts enjoyable. Thanks for sharing this.
So I have a love hate relationships with showers. I obviously enjoy being clean, but I don't always love the act of having to like get wet, take the time to clean, especially if I have to wash my hair. I'm not a fan. I think part of it is I have spent the last 10 years in urgency mode so taking the time to shower often feels like a lot.
That being said, I'm working on enjoying them more. Taking my time in the shower. Sometimes dancing in the shower. Sometimes imagining everyone's energy melting off me in the shower. Lately feeling the safety of the shower.
I do however love water. Putting my feet in the water, whether a stream, a lake, or the ocean, I don't care how cold it is. I love being in or near or on the water. There's just something magical about it.