Be still and breathe deeply.....

 1) Be still (standing or sitting)

2) Be comfortable

3) Focus your mind on abdominal your breathing.  (Taoist Longevity Breathing)

4) Breathe:

a) Slow, 

b) Fine, 

c) Even 

d) Soft 

5) Breathe in and out through the nose. 

6) On the out breath: Release any tension downward like Ice melting to Water, Water evaporating as a Gas. 

7) Start at the top of the head and work your way down your body to your feet.

8) Allow the mind to descend down into the body. It may feel like water being soaked up by a blotter.

 Think water moving down litmus paper. 

 * Tissue that is properly released will expand in all directions and the joints will naturally open up. 

"Ice to Water-Water to Gas"

Merry 'Christmas tree worm'

 

A Christmas Tree Worm that I shot a few years back....Not sure where or when but 2014 is a guess;^)

Hope you're doing well and enjoying time with family and friends.

Happy practice;^)

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to you all!

 

Sunrise Christmas Day 2022

Wishing you all abundant health and prosperity throughout the new year!

Controlling your fear.....Is it fear (False Evidence Appearing Real) or is it just excitement (a peak life experience)?

 

Yesterday morning at Split Rock on the north side of Grand Cayman. 'Twas a very sharkie dive!! They got as close as I care to be....Not fear, but definitely exciting to the extreme;^)

Scuba Diving has many parallels to martial arts

 

Scuba Diving has some great parallels to martial arts. 

One parallel is the practice 'eating the bitter'.  

Another parallel is learning to control ones natural tendency to panic under stress. That is especially important while scuba diving. If one panics (for whatever reason) it could be fatal and there is the biggest parallel. It's deadly serious!

A scuba diver needs to be:

 'Comfortable being uncomfortable' 

An example:

Yesterday at the start of the second dive my mask was super foggy; I only had visibility in the upper right hand corner of my mask....That's it! So about 1/3 of the way through the dive I decided to flood my mask with sea water to clear the fog. It worked but then I had sea water in my eyes and it burned for about 10 minutes. Great for spiritual practice! You must be able to release into the discomfort, because you cannot just surface whenever your a bit uncomfortable because you're at depth and need to come up slowly and do a 3 minute safety stop before surfacing.  There is NO shooting to the surface because you're uncomfortable. Self control is paramount to good scuba diving and martial arts alike.