Mind Stops
Hi Steph 🙂
One and a half years ago i did some catharsis meditation :)) i was ecstatic just by taking a walk, that light i became after it. Anyway after that i could never eat meat could not smoke or could not take any narcotics anymore. More simple, i could not do consciously anything that would harm or imbalance the wisdom of the body. So i started to do also research about food because of the pressure from my doctor friends :)) but to be honest i always picked the correct food just by simply watching the first thought that appeared in the mind about what to eat or sometimes i was longing for some particular food that later on i found out that contains essential components for the body. Also climbing got better, much better i would say just by changing the food, but this was just a byproduct. One the other hand the power of my intellect got stronger which i’m not yet sure if it is just from the food or from living in a meditative way but one of my friend who also started a vegetarian lifestyle and was doing no meditation or at least not consciously 🙂 also confirmed about his capacity to learn and to understand many things. I also have a more loving attitude about everything since then.
Also wanted to share an interesting experience about fear. It happened that almost all the times i adventure away from the picked route and find myself somewhere in the middle of a wall or a very steep snow slope far from all the group figuring it out that i can’t climb back, if i fall i better fly :)) and the only escape is up up up. First i’m involved too much in the fear and the consequences, the body becomes to shake a little, like when your brain’s glands do their work 🙂 I stop for a minute, i know if i’m afraid i will over exhaust the body and then….. suddenly all thoughts vanish away…. ecstasy ecstasy orgasm or call it whatever you want, the body climbs itself 😀 feeling a deep relatedness in these moments with the whole frozen mountain, sky, it is so far out that i weep in joy.
One cool game 🙂 Blindfold climbing or Blindfold toproping 🙂
my opinion is that man can’t live without some brakes…i mean “mind stops” :)) and for sure climbers, base jumpers, sky divers and lovers adore these little brakes, but after a while these brakes don’t come because what they do they do robot like. Climbing one route that i liked very much for the 162431738 th time i thought that there are no more new holds no more different movements and even if there were so after discovering them, then what to do. One of my friends seeing that there is no more perfection to add suggested to use a blindfold to see what happens. I have to tell you it is a very simple 18 m long rout with 6+ (uiaa scale :)) i was sure that i know everything on the wall but see what happens after 1 meter i had no idea about where i was or what hold i’m holding so a new adventure begin. Every movement of the body, every sense of the rock made me so present, so aware, full of life that i found myself again like a fully charged battery :)) just by eliminating the eyes.
I’m sure there are many scientific explications for what i just said and it’s not necessary to sound like an asian mystic to share my life’s moments.
I have no idea why i wrote this letter it just came rather like a feeling than a thought.
Love Purana
Dear Purana,
Thanks for the beautiful letter, for sharing your thoughts and feelings! There is a lot of food for thought for me there.
🙂 Steph
