Can You Breathe Underwater?

I wrote this 7.5 years ago in my journal as a response to a conversation I must have shared with my then friend and my now partner and father of my children!  If you’re feeling like your underwater, suffocating or overwhelmed…I hope you find a little relief in this. 

9/12/03

“I understand your dream now.  Either I had a dream like it, which is what I think happened, or I was all of a sudden able to completely empathize with you.  Your underwater dream…

I remember being underwater, holding my breath, worried my breath wasn’t deep enough to sustain me and then all of a sudden – I realize! – I can breathe through my nose!  It’s like something I should have known all along but for some reason I couldn’t remember [or forgot] and now it just seems so simple!

Maybe we [are] going through times of significant realizations in our lives or something.  It was funny because I was just driving and - BAM - my body remembered the feeling of that dream!

Of course we can breathe underwater!”

Can you? 

Go ahead.

Remember.

Try it. :)