A Climbing Project:
DEPARTURE: You step up to your chosen route. You choose to look closely at it, plan it, visualise it. There is a good rest and shake out at half height. Before then it looks like easy ground to cover; lie back up the edge, rock over and pull up to the rest. Straight arm hang, shake out, chalk up. Smile, exhale and go push on. Lots of jagged and sharp little edges, crimps and a side pull. Focus on footwork and go for the last piece of gear, which looks easy. Step up to the wall, pull down on the first few holds, pushing quickly through a few metres and swing onto the lie back. Smoothly stepping past that into the rock over and hit the rest. The rock moves slightly, then holds. Smile. INITIATION: Breathe in the dry chalk dust scent. Look through the sequence up to the top. Exhale. Chalk swirls around you for a second in the dead calm of the moment. Match hands and go. Feel the sharpness of the edges tugging at your fingertips. Watch your feet closely as you step through the moves, crossover, high left foot, match to right hand, heel hook. Push through the holds. Pause to clip gear. Watch the wall slide past inches from your face. Focus on the thin edges and cracks. Your mind drifts to the yawning void behind you. Pause, place gear. Left hand feels like it’s slipping as you pull rope out and clip. Know that your can do it. Left hand solid now. Push on. Mind focused on the holds. Think of nothing else. Just ten feet of rock above your feet, there is nothing else. Pause. Clip. Foot pops off and you swing on one hand, reel yourself back in and feel the texture of your rock as you hit the side pull and go for the last clip. Hit the big edge next to it with a sweating palm. Smile. Clip the last piece of gear. Exhale. RETURN: A few minutes later you are laughing through the moves with your partner, talking vividly, dramatically about the route, the near misses, the narrowly averted disasters. Smile now as they settle into your chalk-flecked memory; enjoy the thoughts of how the route went. What was good, what was bad? Focusing on the points to learn from, how the relaxed and smooth lie back allowed for lots of energy for the power-full finish. Spotting the side pull from the ground. Relaxing on the rests to save energy. TAKE all of life as a Hero’s Journey. You're the Hero. The Journey is yours. Hero-You chooses the battle. Departure; hoping to be equipped well enough with tools and skills. During your journey you face your moments of Initiation. The fight. The moment – or the minute, hour, day... – when Hero-You must remain focused and truly believe in their abilities. Finally, Hero-You steps out of the fray. Victorious, or not, Hero-You Returns. Upon their Return Hero-You finds time to look over the events. Find where you can improve next time, what to do the same, what to change. So that your next Hero's Journey can be success-full again. Be your own Hero. You're the only one who can. ACM Positive Passionate Power-full Performance.
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TODAY Monkey Mind came to play.
RECENTLY I spoke of Critic Mind and Doer Mind (Blog: Let You-Self Play, June 10th 2013). Your internal voices that speak to you, the Critic telling you to moderate your thoughts / language / actions and fit in and tread the sensible, worn trail, versus the voice of the Doer, who is your artist brain, your scheming, plotting, adventure seeking voice, the one who wants to stay up all night and do a Star Wars Marathon, or go on a canoe expedition across Sweden or cycle from Lands End to John O'Groats, and sings really loud and maybe slightly off key in the shower. DOER Voice took a cosmic leap today. My Doer Voice in my head decided she no longer wanted to be Doer. That's Boring. Doer Voice declared: I am, henceforth Monkey Mind. Monkey is wildly leaping from branch to branch, dashing across exposed areas to get to that tree over there that is covered in ripening fruit, but which is much too far for all the sensible Critic Voice driven masses to attempt to reach. Monkey grabs at the thinnest branches and jumps high and far, reaching out for the next thing to grasp hold of. MONKEY is making it up as Monkey goes along. MONKEY is loving that. Monkey is comfortable far out of Monkey's comfort zone. Monkey talks fast, acts instantly and speaks hard truths swiftly, chest out and proud. AND who, you ask is Jiriki? Jiriki is Japanese for the process of self-selection and self-promotion. Jiriki is the monkey, who grasps at his mother to be rescued. The opposition to this is Tariki, Tariki is the kitten who needs saving. Tariki is saved by his mother who comes and gently carries him to safety in her mouth, putting her down and licking him to make sure he knows he is safe, Tariki needs higher authority to select her, to move forwards, to remove risk, to endorse her. Jiriki grasps tightly on, saves herself and knows he is plenty safe enough. JIRIKI is bold and proud self-selection, the in-your-face artist who has declared herself Monkey Mind. My task as a person operating to keep my body and actions and language encountering this wonder-full beauty-full world is to hold on and see where Monkey Mind wants to go, then to go there. MONKEY Mind is that bumper sticker: 'Get in, sit down, shut up, hold on.' That's what Monkey Mind says. Then pauses… well, actually… Hold on? Forget that part, wave for the cameras! Shut up? Whoop loudly with joy-full abandon! Sit down? Sit down, not likely! Get in? Well… maybe. Only though the window though! MONKEY Mind is now in charge. Monkey mind is running the show. Critic Voice has not yet spoken up and decided on a new title, Doer Voice did not offer any suggestions and Monkey Mind is having too much fun to throw out any ideas for boring old Critic Voice as yet. LONG Live Jiriki. LONG Live Monkey Mind. ACM Positive Power-full Passionate Performance. Reference: The Icarus Deception: Seth Godin, 2012. Page 47: The Kitten and The Monkey. Copyright: Do You Zoom, Inc. A beauty-full book. Buy it. Release your-self into your-self. Fly High! |
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AuthorAndy Clubley-Moore: joyful outdoor sports activist, writer, father, husband. Lover of life, activity, success and barefoot living. |