Keep Swimming

The Gathering Room Podcast

Martha Beck

Business, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Courses, Education

5 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 14 December 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever struggle to do things you know you have to do, even though you don’t really feel like it? We’ve all been there—including Martha—and she’s talking about it in this episode of The Gathering Room: Keep Swimming. Humans are the kind of creatures that can get so focused on a dream that even if that dream seems impossible, or the work it requires feels like a total slog, we can make ourselves keep going. Martha watched a movie about long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad, who made several failed attempts to swim from Cuba to Florida. Despite serious setbacks, Diana kept going back and trying again—and she finally achieved her goal at the age of 64. On her final successful attempt, Diana’s coach jumped into the water to swim alongside her, which Martha says is something we sometimes have to do for each other. We may not be able to touch each other, but we can still swim alongside each other like a pod of dolphins, encouraging each other to keep going—because the effort will be worth it. Tune in to the full episode, Ep 146: Keep Swimming, for more encouragement to keep going despite challenges and to participate in Martha’s guided Silence, Stillness, and Space meditation.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Gathering Room podcast, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast.
0:08.0	I'm Martha Beck.
0:09.0	Hello, welcome.
0:11.0	Thank you for gathering with me, for with all of us.
0:15.0	And today I'm going to talk, you know, last time I talked about how we can play with the universe and the universe
0:21.3	is conscious and it responds to us and animals are wonderful and that is all true. And there is
0:28.4	another side to the story. And that other side is something I saw in a biopic that I just watched
0:34.9	with Annette Benning and Jody Foster, who are like, my goddess role models
0:40.4	because they're, you know, they're actresses of a certain age who appear never to have anything
0:46.3	shot into their faces. And not that there's anything wrong with that, but it's really
0:53.2	amazing to see two women just going,
0:55.9	nope, what you see is what you get.
0:58.0	And I applaud anyone doing anything.
1:01.0	God knows I'll do anything I can to try to feel better about myself.
1:05.6	Anyway, it's called Nyad.
1:08.6	And in it, Annette Benning plays a real person named Diana Nyad.
1:14.9	Nyad, if you have never heard that word defined, means water nymph or water spirit. And so Diana Nyad was named to be a swimmer.
1:24.3	And she grew up swimming, swimming, swimming. She was a long distance swimmer.
1:29.2	And when she was about 30, she tried to swim from Cuba to Florida, which is, I believe,
1:36.5	102 miles as the crow flies or the seagull or what have you. And they put her in this huge,
1:43.8	they had the boat beside her and they had a big
1:45.9	shark cage around her because there are a lot of sharks in that area and she was going to be
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