Struggle Your Whole Life? Take Two Songs For Therapy

To know Rufus Du Sol is to know the music movement. The Australian-based trio just released their Solace Remixed album. In honor of that epically put-together album, we would like to take a look at two of the most powerful songs on the album and why we think they are important.

Underwater

This song is a beautiful, relatable expression of feeling like something is pulling you under, not allowing you to breathe or move the way you want to. In many ways, a lot of people out there are drowning, but not in water. Some people are drowning in addiction, post-traumatic stress disorder, mental anguish, etc. People are suffocating and haven’t the slightest idea why. A great many do not even know they are drowning. There are many ways that we can live and not feel alive.

The song speaks that one friend, your oracle. The light in the darkness. The one spark of hope that will help you paddle to personal freedom. It also captures the emotional side of being helpless, like time is running out. For anyone experiencing spiritual growth, it is important to remember the pain, to think about why it is, that you sought to grow in the first place.

Listen to this song in full. Quiet your mind. As you hear the words think of the types of behavior (your own behavior) that have held you down, kept you behind, not allowed you to breathe.

Now that you’ve had your first shot, you have to get the second, this works just like a vaccine.

New Sky

This is the emotional state after you learn to swim, find land and start marching around on your new legs. Upon your own self-rescue immediately you are dreaming, longing now, not for water but the open air. Your newfound ability to use your body the way you want guides your spirit to a new place you can choose. A thank you, an acknowledgement for learning to swim, learning to breathe, learning to live.

Take these two songs together, repeat. Never forget that sometimes you have to go back into the water several times before you get the hang of swimming. Progress is a process. No victory is final, no failure fatal. Keep trying to swim, keep learning to fly.