As I discovered ten years ago, I have two passions: mindfulness meditation practice and scuba diving. You might think that those two activities cannot be further apart from each other.
Mindfulness practice assumes that you are calm and quiet, deeply immersed in your thoughts and that you just watch the life goes by without any judgment, but also without excitement and enjoinment.
Well, that is not exactly true. You indeed tend to live in the moment and to accept the things you can not change. Also, it is true that you will try to live a balanced life and that you choose the “middle way.” It still kind of leads you far away from the trills of scuba diving.
Living in the moment
Scuba diving is a “high” risk activity that is meant to raise your adrenaline level, to get you more excited, and to have fun. But this is also not entirely true.
Scuba diving is an activity that requires a calm and balanced mind. You are going under the water outside your natural environment, and you must be extremely mindful of that fact. Twenty meters below, you really don’t have an option to be reckless or to forget where you are.
Scuba diving is actually an excellent exercise in mindfulness. You genuinely feel and are aware of every breath you take under the water. You are living in the moment and know your every inhale and exhale. It is a pinnacle of mindfulness breathing.
Underwater meditation
As when you sit to meditate, you exclude the outside world and focus on your breathing, enjoying the silence similar to diving. Deep under, the silence is suiting. You can only hear yourself breathing in and breathing out. The difference is that under the water, you can not surrender your self to your thoughts. You are surrendering to the beauty of the ocean and countless plants and creatures that live there. The colors of the corals and the curiosity of underwater fish and other animals is stunning. You can not but live in the present moment. Even after ten years of diving, I am amazed by the sea every time I go down.
So, mindfulness meditation practice and scuba diving have much more in common than you would think. Both are activities that require your mindful attitude towards the present moment. They are calming activities. Both get you to appreciate life and nature much more.
You need both
Those two are complementary activities in any sense and help each other to shine fully.
I am grateful to discover both, and I thank all the people that helped me start and continue both the mindfulness practice and scuba diving experience.
Scuba diving is not, naturally, the only activity that helps you to be mindful. Music can be one of them, also other things that you find calming. Find the activity that makes you happy, calm, and mindful. You will then feel fulfilled, and able to make batter decisions, both in your personal and business life.
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