Come on in, the water's lovely! Thursday 15th August found the Clubley-Moore family at the lake on Open Water Swimming night, with a hop and a splash in we went for a play. Open Water Swimming session at Dinton Activity Centre, Hurst, RG10 0SU, on Thursday 15th August 2013. Sessions are Thursdays during the summer.
Top: Playing ball while we wait for Mummy to swim; Wading out. Middle: Dinton Activity Centre bathed in sunshine under malevolent clouds. We had some good rain on Thursday!; Little Brother Zachary wants to play too! Bottom: William went out to the 1st buoy and back again with Vicki (AKA Mummy); Playing with safety whistles. Photographics by Andy Clubley-Moore, Swimming and all aquatic stunts performed by Vicki Clubley-Moore and William Clubley-Moore. Kayak support kindly provided by Rob Lee. (Thanks Rob!) ACM Positive Passionate Power-full Performance.
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HOW do you judge your performance? Do you come off the climbing wall saying “...that middle move was fantastic, I loved the bridge at half height and did you see crimp at the top, beautiful, really so delicate...”? Your talk judges your actions, labelling them as good or bad. This allows the memory of the climb to be seated in your brain. When we judge something, positively or negatively, what we do is shade the memory. IMAGINE you have just touched down after a tough climb; it stretched you physically and mentally. You had it all planned and prepared, it was pushing within your grade, you’ve been working at it steadily and today you did it! Well done! Now is the time to continue exercising the powers of your mind, to allow the successes of the climb to become positive past experiences. THIS climb is going to keep you buzzing for a few weeks, every time you catch sight of it you are going to smile and remember all the little parts of it. After that it will settle into a hazy memory, maybe you will push it aside with other successes, maybe they will re-set the wall and the physical climb will no longer be there. The memory remains. How will you choose to allow that memory to shape your future climbing? WHEN we take an event and judge it positively we find the memory of it uplifting and fulfilling. The thought of the moves at half height and how you finally cracked that little delicate crimp near the top, judged positively can allow our mind to remember that we can climb well on crimps, and this action is a positive thing to do. The mind allows us to shade the process of that climb in a positive and beneficial way. WHEN we take the same event and we judge it negatively, taking the memory of the hard moves and making them difficult remembering the struggle we take the effort involved as the focus. Our focus turned to the negative parts of the climb we put the climb into a different shade. Our mind remembers it negatively. It perceives that the bridge and the crimp and the climb were difficult and negative things, these are things that it does not want to repeat. So it tries to get away from them. THIS difference in how your mind views your past is going to hugely affect how your future climbs go. Allow yourself to take all the positive moments of each climb, and let the negative bits go, allow yourself to release them. THE first step of positively framing for your future begins with the planning stages including visualisation, click HERE to get my visualisation mini-course. A four-week course focusing on how we build positive, power-full visualisation exercises to fill our activity with positive and power-full results. ACM Positive Passionate Power-full Performance Rainbows, rocks and waterfalls. Near Adelaide, South Australia.
Begin here, 4.30am... Through old Keswick town to Walla Crag... Over the tops, Bleaberry Fell, High Seat, High Tove to Watendlath... Pause... feed the birds... ... Back to Borrowdale past Dock Tarn, and up Glaramara...... Admire the view and realise I started at the other end of the lake. 430 till 1230. 20K morning...
And so to the next plan... TODAY is the summer solstice - in the Northern Hemisphere. The longest day, the day when the sun reaches its most northern position above the earth before beginning its steady slide back toward winter. TODAY is also my Wedding anniversary, two years of fantastic adventures with my wife and boys. What an inspiring trip it has been. TODAY I re-live my wedding day, and the huge party that we had on the 18th June to celebrate, sharing our vows and our love with our friends, family, community, Gods, and the universe. Loving gratitude to Mother Earth and Father Sky for their blessings on our special day each year and the continued blessings of finding time to watch deer, spot dragonflies, admire meadows and dance in really silly ways! TODAY I re-call the flittering of moments of passion and the spectacular scenes of love that I have had an opportunity to share with my family and friends. TODAY that is what my blog is about, passion, love. As the earth (Mother Earth) and the sun (Father Sky) turn on, shifting us past another solstice and rolling around to move together and find us another season to explore and enjoy. Making for beauty-full changes to our lives, our hearts and our minds. TODAY I want to share my love and my passions with you. My blog is my love, my passion. It allows me to share some of the things that I am finding out about the world as we spin and tilt our way through the seasons and circle around each other endlessly. TODAY I want to share my love, my passion for learning, and growing, and discovery. To remind you that you can do something that scares you, something huge and exciting Today, Now. You can send that letter, you can write that poem, you can sing that sing loud, you can drive home the long way, you can. And you must. TODAY only You can do it. As only Mother Earth can support us as we circle on around the sun, plunging on through space. And as only Father Sky can provide us the sun and the wind and the rain and continue to balance the world. Together they keep this crazy old world going. Together they let us all make our decisions, make our choices and to fly on through space, and through our lives to find our way. TODAY take pleasure in this the Longest of Days to celebrate your passion, your love. Tell someone about something you love to do. I love to weave fast through traffic on my bike. I love to find the perfect mix of balance and power to edge my way up rock faces. I love to feel the air blasted out of me as I plunge into cold water and kick hard to swim. I love to drift canoes sideways down rivers and power upwind across lakes. TODAY, consider what your passions are and how you can share them with someone, with anyone, with every-one. TODAY share your love. TODAY share your passion. THANK you thank you thank you for Today. ACM PS: Song of the moment, "I Wanna Be The One", by Coby Grant. Look it up, it's beauty-full. My wife likes to sing - instead of the La la la la section - Thank you thank you thank you for today. THANK YOU. Positive Power-full Passionate Performance. My-self, Vicki (sharer of my adventures and William (our eldest - age 13 months) at ou
HAVE your-self a beauty-full and fantastic day. ACM LET your mind dream. When you see this route, that holiday, that project, a line up a cliff or down a mountain and feel your heart leap this is your inner child trying to go play.
YOUR inner child / artist / voice is an embodiment of your desires that you do your very best to hide with a little common sense and being 'sensible', 'mature' and 'responsible.' The inner voice that wants to play is the counter to all these sensible and socially conditioned voices. Your play-full voice sees the possibilities of joy, not the probabilities of failure and catastrophe. THIS sensible voice, the one telling you not to go play on the swings, not to buy a canvas and oil paints, not to run down a hillside as fast as you can is your 'Critic'. Your Critic is your conditioning, there to ensure you stay safe. SAFE? Safe from what? We live in a world where the danger is designed out of existence. We are surrounded by crash barriers and impact zones and air bags. We have rubberised matting and wood chip and protection. We are safely wrapped in cotton wool. So why do you need a Critic voice? THE danger is from society. You do not want to be told you are too old, stop being so silly, of course you can't… And so on, and so forth. Society conditions you well to listen to the voice of sense and reason. MEANWHILE inner child wants to go play. This is your Doer voice. Your Doer wants to express your feelings and dance under the stars and feel the wind in your hair and laugh raucously. The Critic will tell the Doer all the good reasons why this project is a terrible idea. Why that won't work. How much it is going to hurt - physically, mentally, spiritually - when you slip at any point. TODAY, your mission is to listen to your Doer. Your Doer could well be one very small voice. Assailed by your Critic into near silence. Look to the walls, the hills, the art supplies and stationary shops and see what stirs you. Then embrace the idea. IDEAS do not even need massive outlays of income. Maybe your Doer wants to write that card with the sunset and send to you an old friend. Or to sketch the trees down the road that you can see from your sofa. Or to sit quietly in a park and watch the birds. YOUR Doer does not have to break the bank to have fantastic fun times. How often as a child did you have the very best day with very little outlay of income? A few sheets of paper and some old paints dug out of the back of the garage. TODAY: GO PLAY. ACM For more joy-full expressions of your Doer voice get enrolled for an e-Course, click here for more details. |
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AuthorAndy Clubley-Moore: joyful outdoor sports activist, writer, father, husband. Lover of life, activity, success and barefoot living. |