Run Out of Rain

Maybe you, like me, have been waiting for the skies to clear and the onslaught of precipitation to reveal the warmth and color of spring.

Maya Angelou reminds me: ”Every storm runs out of rain.”

A storm is simply a manifestation of nature, as are we, as living creatures. And just as a storm runs out of rain, our moods and energies shift, our highs wane, our lows subside, and we emerge from our own periods of cold and cloudy skies. Everything is temporary.

But in order to move on from our own storms, we must move through them. My favorite breathwork teacher Chuck McGee III likes to say, “expression is the opposite of depression.” Rain is an expression of a storm; sweat and tears and breath and movement are expressions of our internal state.

So move, breathe, sweat, cry - express - in order to move through the storm. We emerge transformed when we have run out of rain.