Living Life as a Soul Surfer

Aloha Tribe,

So, some of you may be wondering what the term Soul Surfer means.  It is about true spirituality as it blends mind, body, and spirit. It is about finding oneself through movement, while one surfs, in harmony with the sea.

And, what in the world does all of that mean? Goodness, this could be a whole blog. To me, soul surfing is about doing what one loves, in this case, surfing, and, doing it, not for power or money or fame or such, but instead, for pure pleasure, as an expression of art reflected in spirit and in how one lives life.

Soul surfing is calmness. It is an inner peace, found in movement, through, stillness of action. The calmer and more relaxed one lives, the more one can embrace soul surfing. It is a way, a path if you want to think of it that way, yet, more so, it simply, is. It reflects itself as art in how you think and act and move and in how your surf and how you study the sea.

And, interestingly enough, there are great ways to train for it, to learn to embrace it, to find, in oneself while surfing, a sense of enlightenment and inner peace, expressed through living in the here-and-now in intensely yet paradoxically calming motion brought about and manifested as thinking really quickly, which, comes across as thinking and acting, thus, surfing, in, extreme slow motion.

To a true soul surfer, time stops almost, slowing to fractions of fractions of seconds, making, a single ride seem to last an eternity.

Expressed as energy, one could call it mana or zen or chi, or even maucht (in Scotland).

Bodaciously Stoked,

Lily of the Valley