This summary of the evidence of surfers from different backgrounds reflects the mindset of the Soul Surfing
See Sex and Sun?
See Sex and Sun?
"You know the slogan of the surf culture, the three S's: See Sex and Sun. Of course ... because you did certainly already in practice. If you are a bodysurfeur or surfer, you know the other formula: See Soul and Spirit ... Because you've already adopted. "
To listen to the voices and share worldwide the practitioner (s) surfing about their art and their lifestyle, their way of thinking and acting, this can be summarized in three words: ocean soul and spirit.
The surfers are joined in a communion with the timeless ocean, nature and the joy of living. Surfing is a way to connect with energies that wash the soul and spirit of anxiety and tension. This relationship is at the heart of the experience of surfing.
This connection is the awareness of Being, broadly and often confused, its interdependence with nature immense and unknowable in life.
A Quest for Absolute
is a mysterious fascination that leads many to devote themselves to surfing. To achieve many of those who are detached from the conventional benchmarks of their education, the consensus of their social culture, traditional concepts related to careers and relationships.
And it grows in number (s) to exceed all limits, even those of their own health, starting a tour of all the most beautiful spots in the world. Ten or fifteen years later, their former surroundings are seen to emerge, and only etched, with sometimes "only" memories of great waves and good times.
And disapproving judgments are not so rare ... Who is there harm in that? Nothing but the courage of a great quest for the absolute tent, risking their lives to rush over precipices of liquid crystal, in the bowels of huge meat-ax in the heart of crash of total solitude.
course there are the surf industry trying some (s) to receive praise, to display their victories over the pages of magazines, to test their power by defeating the competition. It is their own way Apprenticeship wise. This represents a very small proportion of foam runners.
And then one day, these champions manage to complete the wave of media success. Beyond this noble experiment of a glorious sporting career they pursue adventure, exploration, discovering what they really are themselves deeply in soul and conscience. Today some have their own surf camp where they transmit their knowledge, radiating an aura of beauty, wholeness, serenity.
Mostly, those who run the waves do not need a team or compete to test their courage and their limits. Finally, in the real world of surfing there simply drag a feasible way on moving masses and unequal playground unpredictable.
The ocean is a living entity immune to pride, we will never take, and is ready to swallow us all believe then we eject in tatters on the sand.
And the most extraordinary thing as it makes it much sleep on the beach to get up to dawn in the cold and breathe the fresh breeze ideally breaking wave pasty night that turns into love bright lips, pleasing to the body full of ardor.
The Mystery of Surf
But do we really know why we surf? That's what makes it so great mystery of surfing as a teen romance, which every summer attracts mass of new suitors.
Some are getting into a season, then melt back into normality, unhappy or frightened by the huge requirement of this high ideal, its lifestyle media and its image tarnished. On this unfathomable vastness aquatic, experience, also assured that it can make a human, none the less dangerous ...
But others engage in it body and soul adopting as a way of accomplishment. They are those who can say: "We are most fortunate!"
They see surfing as a sacrament for a country to which only the blessed can access. A place where spiritual and physical challenges prevent them from fleeing to face existential contradictions.
They also live as a human transgenerational where each other can understand their passion for life so intensely, in a quest for equilibrium and harmony.
Equilibrium Mind-Body
The image of surfing is an unstable equilibrium attitude. He feels that the soul entered into the dazzling movement of the wave and the body senses instantly. The surf here is attitude of artistic inspiration.
is a dance in harmony with the swell alive. This dynamic equilibrium in continuity of the four dimensions, triggers the unified state of trance. For a multitude of surfers worldwide is experiencing a direct illumination of their oneness with the universe. We find the description of this steady state in many traditions. As the Tao with the Yin Yang, which symbolizes a wave.
From the perspective of the synchronicity of the psyche and body, the subconscious responds perfectly to the rider's conscious intention in making use of physiological and chemical, hormonal, that cause the transmission of information involved the balance of emotions and coordination of physical and intellectual functions.
is the result of mental training and sports. Exactly what led yoga and other Eastern meditation with different specific objectives. Today these practices, especially yoga, are taught in training surfer that the mental state of an individual determines all aspects of his life.
The Surf Inside: A Lifelong Learning
The acquisition of mental control allows the rider to not be completely washed away and overwhelmed by the forces at work that he encountered in his practice. For every feeling or mood is the opposite, and this antagonism inhibitor interferes with the movement of our emotions, just as a wave during its journey to the edge may sway among energies opposite and complementary.
From a subjective point of view, the emotions at a given time, the state felt by the consciousness is still provisional as the prospect that opens to her while she is tossed about by these complex feelings.
The state of grace Surf does not appear as the result of a specific technique, but results from a combination of intuition, a special blend of reflexes: a holistic balance of body and soul.
techniques boardsurf bodysurfing and are intended to maintain a constant eurythmy in which a misguided change of the body in one direction is offset by the constant fluctuation of the ocean that brings the rider to balance. This encourages him to govern according to optimum trajectory and jerk through changing conditions, with the objective of maintaining its course and its desire to live.
And this in an internal dialogue with permanent and mysterious elements, who invited him to perceive the presence in nature, as in the existence of causality with which it is always possible s' harmonize.
It's what surfing is also a real "surf inside." That the flexibility and fluidity, of "living in the moment," the serene spirit melted in the waves, hung with confidence towards the goal that drives us.
For the beginner is often thankless ... The head often full of wonderful dreams and ideal surf sessions, he feels called by a desire for freedom and adventure ...
Learning the art requires practice, passion and consistency. Confidence and control come with repetition. Facing the big waves is no need to feel the fullness. Each surpassing its own limits, step by step, feel the state of grace. This is my story of a neophyte.
Surf Attitude ...
Our civilization has entered a renaissance intellectual spiritual and holistic. Ongoing development of the world, the diaspora of surfing world as it entered a stream connected to the informal culture of conservation.
In their veneration of the ocean, surfers grow more or less consciously, a cult with its aquatic sensual specific practices and experiences relevant, which leave the roads leading to faith in the universe as a power sacred transformation and healing. They share the same benefits in loving viscerally their playground, they fear this sea, respect and honor as a natural force so powerful that it requires them to become athletes.
A young coach who has awakened spiritually and experience the extreme surfing, asked me how to help the surfers to use in their everyday life experiences, their ability to transpose them to surf with ease.
How can they afford to be accomplished athletes of happiness, of living and conscious control of their lives? Today is really the essential issue of surfing.
To surf the waves naturally real or metaphorical, of existence, is our original intention that determines the happiness of being in the moment. It's a love connection in ourselves, the world, alive. The joys of surfing and life just by putting himself in tune with the natural environment and the invisible world. It is the foundation for learning. The control does not control. Harmony either.
To accomplish our full potential as athletes of happiness, live in integrity with our deepest vocation, and those around us will reap the benefits.
Let spontaneously the essence of our soul surfer permeate our daily lives that spring up in our eyes sparks of happiness and the melody of happiness.
Vibron this benevolence that grows to care for themselves, each other, our planet, and we contaminate our whole family.
Maybe it's good surfing attitude to live a sustainable basis by continuing to grow, to generate pleasure, and thrive ...
surfers Soul
The ocean tides with the movement represents, symbolically, evolving man. We learn a lot about yourself.
One time is enough to realize that humans are not invincible. Since when is crashed into a shore break, losing control, trapped helplessly in the waves. Nowhere in endless seconds ... It's very long.
The wide ocean is a school that is born of humility and respect for life itself. The risks of nature and the dangers inherent in surfing foster awareness that are true mystical experiences.
For some it is hard to describe, but when they line-up, highly concentrated, as if there was nothing else in the world that they and the ocean, there In their intense meditation, they are surfing the web!
Be surfer's soul is aware that there are ways of being and living that we do not know whatever our origin, our religion, our education, our philosophy.
practicing this lifestyle shows us, help us to integrate. Even if we do not believe in a god, many of us find our own spirituality, immersed in the solitude of secret spots, deserts, facing the nature, the ocean, empty sanctuary of frivolous distractions, away from social pressures of land.
Many of those returning from session rejuvenated by the spirit of Aloha. Love this essential energy of life, breath of vitality and creativity that generates abundance, joy, serenity ... And is expressed in friendship, that perfect gift of life that nourishes the soul of surf culture ... Anything that makes us shine of fullness after a good day of surfing ... All we can offer the world.
