Meditation: Surfing Metaphor for Calming the Turbulent Waves of the Mind
Which will make your mind surfing smoother — with less chattering.
Yoga, meditation, and surfing.
When you first get into these arts — it’s most often the physical benefits which get you hooked. You’ve likely heard about the spiritual aspects of these practices, but you don’t really understand it all quite yet. No need to worry, with experience and time — those things develop.
In the beginning with these practices, something (as we say), “bites” you.
It’s this initial “bite,” or encounter with the deeper spiritual aspect of these practices, which gets you hooked. You’re just not subtle enough yet to know it at this stage. If you really become smitten, this fraction of a taste of the power which lies behind these practies — can be enough to change your life forever.
There’s a reason why surfers love being out in the ocean, and always speak of the “soul,” of surfing in a very particular way.
A “soul surfer” (term invented during the 1960s) is a surfer who surfs for the sheer pleasure of surfing. The term denotes a spirituality of…
