Swimming meditation

Continuing our meditation series we get to swimming meditation. Basically when you swim alone with your head under the water you enter an altered state of consciousness.

This is caused by the aquatic mammal diving (head under) water reflex. This something that all aquatic mammals (whales, dolphins. seals and so on) share with human beings and one or two other land mammals. When we put our head under water (just nose and eyes is enough) our metabolic rate slows down so we can spend more time under the water.

So to do the swimming meditation we swim the crawl alone and just concentrate on the water, the sounds, the light bouncing on the pool bottom (I have not done it in a sea or ocean but I’m sure it would work). Again like all other meditations soon your mind will wonder. You’ll notice that you are thinking. Gently bring back your concentration on the water and the swimming.

Concentrate on the sounds and the sights under the water. Soon you may notice seeing the inside of your own eyes. You see little things floating in front of you (they appear a few inches away from you). This seeing inside your own eye happens because the water has a different reflective index than air and it’s reflective index is very similar to that of the fluids inside the eyes so you notice the slight flaws inside your own eyes.

Continue to swim and do nothing. Swimming is one of the best sports and uses all your muscles which puts you in the present moment. It changes your relationship to gravity and that too changes your state of consciousness. One of my Tai Chi teachers once told me that it is the nearest thing both from physical and spiritual point of view to Tai Chi.

So swim, enjoy the altered state of consciousness and meditate by staying in the moment and remaining present….

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