Athletes call it ‘being in the zone’, others call it a ‘heightened state of consciousness. In fact, about 90% can easily identify and associate it with one or more activities. Most people can remember experiencing such a state. You might not be aware of it, but you’re in the Zone. You feel in tune with the task, moving with accuracy and composure you don’t fully understand but at the same time enjoying it. A sense of extreme happiness, connectedness, and harmony pervaded into your being. Now you don’t need to be an extreme sports athlete to recognize when your mind and heart shift into another space. You are extremely absorbed in the task at hand, your perceptions are heightened, time seems to slow down, and no sign what’s so ever of that inner critic. Your attention is focused on the movements and angles of your body, the breathing of your lungs, and the feeling of the rocks beneath your feet. Can you imagine how it feels to climb a mountain without fear? You’re moving deliberately. Lose yourself in the moment, so much that before you know it, the time has flown by! Or those moments you’re sitting with a coffee glued to a fascinating book and something causes you to break your concentration but then you look at the time and realized “it’s time already!”įor those of us who are free climbers. You know those times when you’re playing your favorite sport with so much focus that you completely lose yourself in it. “The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile”.
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