Its easy to feel powerless when faced with powerful systems. In this article I explore how not to be…in fact how to master and create powerful systems yourself.

Example: In water: RNLI:

FLOAT TO LIVE

FIGHT YOUR INSTINCT, NOT THE WATER. NB Water is outside = contextual, Instinct is inside = perception. A world inside and outside me…..my poem ([[Myself]]) If you fall unexpectedly into cold water

1. FIGHT YOUR INSTINCT TO THRASH AROUND
2. LEAN BACK, EXTEND YOUR ARMS AND LEGS
3. IF YOU NEED TO, GENTLY MOVE THEM AROUND TO HELP YOU FLOAT
4. FLOAT UNTIL YOU CAN CONTROL YOUR BREATHING
5. ONLY THEN CALL FOR HELP OR SWIM TO SAFETY

We have to surrender to the water….to give in to a power greater than us and let it move us….Floating is uniting with the water.

How does this notion apply elsewhere….

Swimming Pool of Life:

Stand outside any swimming pool and ask the people coming out with wet hair what they have been doing. Probably they’ll look at you a bit funny and say swimming. This single word masks a whole spectrum of experiences and motivations. For some it is a social activity, for others for physical well being, for others to please someone else.

Watch the swimmers in the pool. Many are not really swimming. They are simply managing to stay alive between 2 points. They are content with that definition of swimming or perhaps they believe that’s all there is. Either way they have no interest in improving swimming: in exploring what swimming really means.

For me it means achieving unity with water.

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Achieving unity

Whenever we wish to truly unite……with horses, with a motorbike, with a person:

Seek to be neutral and entirely present….mentally and physically….this means (in Capra terms) making as little disturbance to the system as possible.

Openness = Allow the system through you. If you block, you can’t absorb (learn). Establish a rhythm…lock into your breathing Détente…decontraction… Connection Alignment Impulsion Collection (containment) Balance

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