What Is It About Water?

Perhaps this scenario describes you or someone you know. You start the shower to get yourself ready to go somewhere. Your day is packed with things to do, and your brain is just as jammed with tasks, chores, errands, details and deadlines. You step into the shower expecting to get it over with quickly and head out. But the warm water hits your shoulders, and suddenly the cascading warmth starts to pour down to your toes, enveloping you in velvety relaxation. And to prove how relaxed you are, you start singing.

You're a shower singer, the closet variety whom none of your friends would peg as an alto bellowing out Somewhere Over The Rainbow and a few Broadway tunes. Not only that, you're good. The water somehow frees you and opens your vocal chords allowing you to reach notes you swear could land you more than a mere audition on American Idol. You imagine the stage, the applause, the fame.

For many people, water has a remarkable inspirational quality that brings out their best. For me, after I belt out a showtune or two, my mind starts wandering, thinking about my day, and pondering my future. And without fail, I'll have a spark of insight into a problem I've been facing. And more often, I find myself creating! Visualization is creating, you know. I create the craziest and most brilliant ideas, but only when I'm in the shower. One step on the bath rug after my shower, and I'm a dolt, back to gray cloud thinking and hurried anxiety. These days, I've unleashed my inner shower genius, and in the very precious and fragile minutes just after I finish, I race downstairs, still dripping and sometimes naked, just to write down my ideas on a notepad!

Have you ever felt so inspired? What do you do with your ideas? And what are you doing to create that life you dream about in the shower?