Don't be a Salmon | Spirit Connection

Coming to Yachats, Oregon, the last 26 years ignited a fire that I knew I wanted to call this place my home one day. There was just something extraordinary about this little town on the water that felt so magical. Every time I am standing on the edge near the crashing waves, it’s as if the world’s most giant charger is filling my energy cup to the brim. It has always been magical. Today, I was sitting next to the bay, watching the tide come in.

This is the time of year when the salmon try to make their way upstream. As I watched the tide roll in, you would occasionally see one of the giant fish give an upstream push their best shot. But frequently, it isn’t quite enough or the right time, so they must abandon the upriver plan and find a stream to ride on to get back out to the sea. They would hurry quickly along with the back fin in very shallow water, hoping to make it back to the water. It was awe-inspiring to watch. They are hardwired to get back to where they started to lay their eggs.

Over the last few days, I have realized that this is not the town I am supposed to live in for the rest of my life. It was definitely a place I needed to go to escape the densely populated area I lived before. But the feeling has shifted a great deal over the last few days. I don’t know where I am supposed to end up, but I now know this is not it.

Then I had to laugh. If I compared what salmon do to what we do as humans, I saw myself as a salmon heading upstream just a little bit, but then I would wake up and come to my senses. I would immediately start a revolution and tell the others, “Don’t do it, it’s all a lie, it’s propaganda. Turn around, go back.”

I would be that one salmon at the mouth of the river telling all of the other salmon to consider what they are about to do. I would remind them that right now, we are all here, part of the big ocean. When we start our unnatural, upriver adventure, nothing good is going to come out of it.

That is what I’m doing in this lifetime. Almost every single human being on this planet cannot see life through the lens of a spiritual being. They truly believe you have to plan every aspect of your life, all the way to your retirement. They think you have to save all of your money because what if you live to be 110 years old? They believe they must have the best-manicured lawn as well as the trendiest of countertops. How did we get so far away from reality that this stuff is a priority?

I would have been that salmon that would’ve said, “you guys, do you really think it’s smart to do what you think you want to do right now?” I would have started a movement to stay in the sea, and we would be extinct right now. I would show them the fishermen lining the banks with the best tasting salmon bait money can buy. I would show them the treacherous current we’d have to navigate to catch a wave to go upstream. I would then remind them of the fish ladders and dams up ahead, and when we finally get to that place we are fighting to get to, we lay our eggs, and then yes, we croak. Does that sound like an intelligent choice to make? Why don’t we just stay in the ocean to play, realizing our time is nearly up? Why work so hard to get back home only to die when and if we get there?

As a human, I have been that rebellious salmon, and I will always be. The rest of us go through life fixed in the beliefs that we must do what the people before us have done, that we can’t see that we can completely flip the script. Just because people have done things the same way over and over again doesn’t mean we have to follow along. We are all unique, and we have great ideas. Why do we want to keep beating the drum of what has been done forever, rather than trying something no one else has tried before?

Just because it has been done forever doesn’t mean it must continue. As you swim through your beautiful human existence this time around, dare to find your inner salmon – and start a revolution!

Cari

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Cari Palmer Bio:

If I hadn’t lived the many phases of my life, I wouldn’t believe it could all happen in one lifetime. All I imagined after giving up my victim card was being a writer/speaker for Hay House. I was the queen of self-help and I was ready to change lives. Fast forward a decade or two and now, after re-membering who we are and why we are here, self-help was a lifetime ago.

Following my guidance has brought me to a place I couldn’t ever imagine! I have mastered living in the present moment. I have become a Zen-like creature. Once you feel this good in every moment, you can never go back. When you realize we create our own reality, why would we make any part of this thing we call life miserable?

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