Try freediving
A gym for the spirit
It turned out not to be swimming, but training the ability to stay calm. Couldn’t relax — didn’t dive. Meditate or surface.
Freediving is letting go. Not pushing through. You can’t dive angry or upset — you instantly run out of breath. Every dive should be light and pleasant. Like everything in life.
The depth washes everything unnecessary out of you. After that you can choose what to let back into your life.
When something feels like nonsense, you just relax the mind and fall through it. It disappears. You can think without reading thoughts and picturing images. Think without words. Before words.
When you dive, you leave the character on the surface and descend from his world into yourself. You switch off the prompter of the mind. It’s samadhi.
Become a freediver. It’s a gym for the spirit.
Free as in freedom.
The best dive is when you don’t think at all.