Healing is getting to a state of wholeness and deep comprehension with yourself, your relationships and your environment. curative all the time includes elements of body, mind and spirit. Our bodies are made up primarily of water. The planet is mostly water and most of that is sea water. In his books about the miraculous brain of water, Dr.Masuru Emoto describes how water changes it’s crystallized form depending on how it is sent thought, sound and speech energy. All our thoughts are vigor and if we and our planet are water then our form is changed dramatically by how we speak, think and interact with ourselves, our fellow men and our planet.
Scuba diving is one of the most direct methods of interacting with water and feeling yourself to be a water based life form. Breathing underwater has fascinated humans for centuries and exploring the oceans is as fabulous as exploring outer space and has generated much modern interest in documentary films and favorite culture. The scuba diving recreational business has exploded in the past decade encouraging many of us to personally look below the covering of our watery planet.
Diving
Scuba diving as a sport has the potential to show habitancy how beautiful and foremost our oceans, coral reefs and aquatic environment are. However, as with much of the popularization of any activity, money and it’s pursuance dominates the scuba diving training and dive centers around the world and commonly removes the element of curative from scuba diving. The domination of business in diving as with all human endeavors turns a potentially curative action for habitancy and a way to further comprehension of our planet to an action of mass consumption and destruction of the very magnificent we are so eager to see and experience.
After 15 years of diving in the Red Sea and more than 10 years of teaching Scuba diving full time I am looking for ways to encourage the business to innovate and look to the time to come of diving and our blue planet. I ask myself daily, how can I get habitancy in the dive business to understand that the way they are diving is destructive to the reef ecosystem? I ask how can I generate alternatives in this business or should I abandon it altogether?
Five years ago I started experimenting with combining yoga breathing and meditation techniques with diving in order to enhance this curative supervene of the sea and to teach habitancy to diving in a more eco friendly and respectful way. This course which I called “yoga diving” for lack of a good term, has slowly gained some attention from dive magazines and the like. I haven’t however been able as yet to find a way “in” to the dive business itself and encourage considerable consideration and hopefully change. I liken the turn I would encourage to how the condition food/organic foods business has changed a lot of the food and farming business in modern years. Educated habitancy nowadays commonly think about issues like pesticides in food, how market farming damages the environment, chemicals in food etc. As our planet is much more water than earth and as the Syn. Clearness of water is tantamount to our condition and survival I am thinking of ways to promote holistic, ecologically sound consciousness in diving in a similar way to how organic farming encourages the same with the earth.
Diving has all the time been a meditation for me and most experienced divers will say the same. Floating weightless in the sea, looking fish and corals up close and intimately, the slow, rhythmic manner of breathing in scuba, all these bring a sense of stillness and peace to the diver. however the way diving is mostly conducted by the tourist industry, that sense of peace and harmony with our aquatic world is usurped by hurried, group oriented, money based superficial dive training to get as many divers on the reef as speedily as possible. The security of the divers and more importantly the impact these poorly trained divers on the delicate reefs is backseated to “factory diving” and mass marketing. Like fast food and most of commericialized culture, profit motivates the dive centers, ironically often run by ex divers who used to join together to the serenity of the dive touch described above.
How can the dive business make changes to encourage comprehension and curative of ourselves and our blue planet? As with all healing, condition of body, mind and spirit must be considered in the quest for balance. Moderation, sound ecological improvement obviously are global concerns as the dive business is embedded in the grander scale of “tourism” the two are inextricably associated and curative thus more complicated than changing just the way we dive.
Nevertheless those of us who dive either expertly or as a hobby can make easy, sensible changes right now. Dive centers can make their groups smaller with greater administration by experienced dive professionals. Large groups of holiday divers on a reef are like platoons of bulldozers over a beautiful flower garden. These potentially devastating groups of divers destroy the reefs very often irreparably. Longer, more thoughtful training aimed at teaching divers allowable skills and buoyancy in smaller groups (3 divers to a pro ideally for example) would enable divers to dive safer for themselves and for the reef. In my course we start our diving day with polite yoga and meditation to enhance the capability to learn and to open up to the brain of the sea. In contrast most dive centers emphasize goal oriented, ego based dive attics underwater. Most of the divers who join my course do so because of dissatisfaction with the way the dive centers are run. Alternatives to premise diving and to the vigor of fear and exploitation of nature (always wanting more and fear of not development sufficient money) are few and far between in diving although there are individuals who love nature and the sea and are honestly concerned. These rare individuals in the dive business don’t however, have venues to promote their love of the sea. Dive centers are out for profit first and their short term goals are again, ironically, destroying the basis for their “industry” namely, the attractiveness of nature.
The curative power of the sea is unlimited. The curative power within each of us is unlimited. We don’t need to supervene “industry” as if it’s the only option. pro divers who love the reefs and would like to use diving to heal let’s wake up, think globally and act locally in your own dive center! Recreational divers, request practices of your dive center, take responsibility for your training and feel the unique, privileged space your are in to touch the curative of our seas.
Diving to Heal
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