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THE ENDLESS WAVE | PART TWO
your understanding and application of skills on a very personal and powerful level. In a fast-paced world where information and resources are readily avail- able at our fingertips, we can choose to feed either decision. These aren’t com- mon conversations that you’ll have with others, yet learning to maintain and restore your bearings and or your own Life-Force Energy are skills that can be acquired with patience and dedication and can deepen your passion and un- derstanding of skateboarding and life.
Naturally as you skate with bearings in your wheels, they are going to show some signs of wear. The outer bearing casings can accumulate dirt, dust, grime and other things in them that can slow down the speed of rotation of the bearings and wheels. These obstructions are like baggage that can get in between the wheel, bearing and axle, where the wheel spins. To clean these casings is quick, low-level maintenance — you could wipe them down with a rag. Leaving your bearing casings and letting these things accumulate end up slowing you down.
With your Life-Force Energy, interactions with the world outside of you form into energetic attachments with the different people, places and things that you interact with, that can slow down your flow. Clairvoyantly, these show up as cords or hooks that extend outward from an individual and in a more prac- tical-grounded sense, these are characterised in the form of unhealthy attach- ments and dependencies on people, places and things outside of you and feeling depleted, drained or exhausted after day to day interactions.
There are many different things that can help you to engage in the low-level maintenance of your Life-Force Energy. Here are some of the things that work for me that I also teach to my Students. They work wonderfully, so you might like to give these some consideration:
• Take moments during your day to become aware of your breath. Practise inhaling, deep breaths into the belly for a count of 4 and exhaling, deep breaths out for a count of 4. Set the intention to inhale desirable, positive emotions, while releasing anything you wish to clear with every exhale that no longer serves you.
• Cord cutting by using your hands to make sweeping motions at the level of your Sternum (Solar Plexus). Sweep as if you’re making a cutting motion,
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