Swimming in Open Water, by Tessa Wardley

Swimming in open water
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It becomes curious how humans are able to draw arguments to build countless stories, stories, essays or everything that comes our way. Our imagination and its creative derivative is capable of transforming everything. If suggestion finally intervenes as a stimulus, nothing is the same again.

Because what it does Tessa Wardley is to relate such profound aspects about an action as simple as swimming, which is truly fascinating, shocking and disconcerting.

When you approach this book, you come to think of the origin of everything, that first amoeba that splashed in a pond in that primal blue ball now called Earth. Because Tessa links the state of the human being in the water with something much more atavistic, with a spiritual aspect, with a sensation of beings emerged, millennia ago, from a water that surrounded Pangea.

In the water we are all the same, we all enjoy a weightlessness that frees us from our heavy passage through the world. Water is presented to us as a habitat to which we can surrender towards a level of consciousness far from all known surroundings, a different space from where we can project our reality, freed from many conditioning factors.

Tessa starts from the personal, the most particular in that relationship with water and swimming, but little by little she traces the lines of her thought much further, towards an optimal exercise for everyone on the way to reaching full consciousness . The author rescues ideas from Wallace J. Nichols, a true guru in this movement to reunite with water.

Of course, swimming in a pool is not the same as swimming in the sea. Open waters offer, according to the author, a greater possibility of connection with oneself. Swimming in the sea may be just a physical exercise, a pleasant sensation, an activity where you focus on breathing and strokes with the simple objective of enjoyment or relaxation, but this book offers many other possibilities for swimming and meditation, and to find in the weightlessness of the water a good space in which to meditate.

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