spiritual freediving...

[noa]

this morning i woke up thinking "there must be others. actually i'm sure there are many others, with some not even aware of it yet..."
others in what, you might wonder ?
in the way they look at freediving. in the reason they do it.
you see, for me freediving is not about depth, technique, records, times and numbers.
it's a meditation, but one done underwater.
it's a cleansing process which clears me of negative energies and recharges me with positive ones.
it's a connection to my higher self and all water beings (both the visible ones and the "less visible" ones).
it's a communion with the sea and all the particles of water that have encoded the very fundamentals of life.
it's a direct extension to all other water planets in the universe.
it's all that and so much more, making freediving a complete spiritual experience into the realms of higher awareness and understanding.
am i the only one that lives the sea in this way ? there must be others. there are others. the sea told me so...

 

[demasoni]

Welcome to the Club.

 

[Erik]

am i the only one that lives the sea in this way ?...

Not by a long shot.
Why would you think that? Even a depth-setter or a spearo is connecting.
You're in a big group.

Cheers,
Erik

 

[cdavis]

I'm just a dumb old, has been spearo, who doesn't set much store in new age, spiritual stuff, but I'm right with you, just different words. Its all of that and more.

Connor

 

[DivingDane]

agreed! we are all (if not most)in the water because its our home, our refuge a place to be yourself and where nothing else in the world matters:

- not the bills
- the argument with your bussiness partner
- fight with your family

none of it exists down there.

whether we are in the pursuit of longer dive times or depths we all dive for the feeling and emotions.

many people including myself have been hooked by the depth bug, not for the numbers, like you said they mean nothing but because as we go deeper we become more intune with ourselves, the spiritual journey you are talking about continues and becomes more involved the deeper i go.

Freediving in one form or another leads my life, there is rarely 1min (no exaggeration) where freediving is not on my mind or being discussed with friends, clients or work collegues.

so no you are not the only one we are here!

 

[shrek]

i once read a book writen by a brain scientist who had a stroke and recovered over a period of 8 years and she wrote about the left brain and the right brain being like two different people .
one side is that voice in your head that talks to you your thoughts so to speakit lets you percive time, plan, ect the thinking side so to speak.
the other side is the emotional side and is more about how we feel more than think
this person had a stroke on the thinking side and described the expriance as meditave euphoria that people try to achive and was stuck there and the hardest part of recovery was comming back to the world
but the comments and feelings of peace and oneness without time sound to me more about brain chemisty during a dive than spirt [sorry]
i feel it to when diving all the world goes away and feel the now
it's very addictive too

 

[ReefTroll]

I went through a tough time recently, and the only things that gave me ANY salvation from my thoughts were my children, my fiance, and the sea.

 

[Don Paul]

I went through a tough time recently, and the only things that gave me ANY salvation from my thoughts were my children, my fiance, and the sea.

Welcome back , mother ocean is also my solace when life's path has thorns.
I could not live far from the sea for any extended period of time. One day my ash's will travel with her currents, revisiting places I have dive.

Cheers, Don Paul

 

[Fondueset]

For me it's pretty much just about sex.