Comfort Leads To Confidence

Last week, I was showing Hank, my 88 year young skating student and friend some exercises to help him feel his comfort area off of the ice.

We were in the lounge, lacing our skates before I started showing him the exercises, and he said something profound as he many times does without realizing it.

We talked about our areas of comfort, and he is aware of how I use the dots like Braille dots to represent comfort areas for me as I skate in my comfort so much that it expands without any effort.

My movement on and off of the ice increases as I explore the little areas of movement so much that for some mysterious reason, my area expands naturally like breathing without any struggle or strain.

Hank said that he is starting to feel comfortable with his life in general, and he says he uses the ideas and methods we share with each other beyond skating.

Walking, going up and down steps, bending his knees before he lifts heavy items, feeling good before he starts a new project like painting his garage doors, and he is learning how to install new software on his new computer.

I suggested he take this experience of comfort and add it to the stroking and cross over exercises we would experience together.

I’m not sure who is the student or who is the teacher since I learn so much from Hank.

He use to be an engineer and flew plains when he was younger plus has an incredible way of translating images into words to help me with geometry as skating has to do with circles and figures.

Whether you jump, spin, do stroking, it all somehow relates to circles and angles relating to circles in some way, shape and form.

We finished skating, and were driving to lunch as he was proud of his cross over and edges, and soon wants to do three-turns on one foot and maybe that dreaded forward inside Mohawk.

I suggested we do two-footed foot-work first.

He liked this idea, and then he said another profound statement.

Hank said "Comfort Leads to Confidence."

When Hank said those words, something inside me felt good.

Something clicked like a shooting firework of some kind went off inside me.

Comfort can lead to confidence if I pay attention, be gentle, kind, and patient with my skating or whatever I am doing on or off of the ice.

This being comfortable first and experiencing confidence second allows me to feel first, and figure later.

As I go with what I feel when I feel it, the comfort increases as it turns into confidence.

This feels to me like a full sense of self that is healthy, happy, feels good, and does feel really natural like breathing.

I will write more about this as I have been experimenting with this idea about comfort leads to confidence this past week with interesting results.

Let me know how you feel about the idea of comfort leads to confidence.

Thanks,

Stash

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Liquid Love

I thought about this title as my left knee has been hurting quite a lot lately.

I for some reason bump into things with my left knee.

I did it last week getting off the ice in a hurry, not paying attention and hit the barrier hard.

I was focusing on lunch.

After we skate, we reward ourselves with a nice lunch, and for some reason I was very hungry.

This will teach me to not talk when I could have felt and listened to where I was going.

I tried putting ice on the knee, heat, and some kind of a cream that is suppose to help athletes with painful muscles or joints.

I tried this for a few days, and the pain remained.

I could feel the disruption of energy around my knee, and the more I tried, the worse the pain got.

I felt so frustrated I just stopped doing anything.

That is when I started to feel something interesting.

I became quiet, and began to be with my sore knee, and my right hip had a tingling sensation which felt really good.

I didn’t do anything to my knowledge but observe and feel my right hip as to my left knee.

It was like my hip and knee were having some kind of a dialogue with each other without me doing anything merely witnessing this interesting dialogue.

The sore knee and comfortable hip started to feel like liquid water flowing towards each other.

A thought came into my mind to do an experiment.

What If I could imagine feeling like my knee was made of water that was moving freely and easily like a river or a stream with a current.

I felt the current, the river and stream, and then a calm lake.

Interesting I thought as when I experienced the calm lake, my knee stopped aching and the stiffness reduced like it was melting.

It felt as if a sugar cube was dissolving in and around my knee and the knee got fluid.

I thought as I do about life and whatever I am doing now seems to apply to sensitive movement and sensitive skating.

This incredible sense of all is well surged through my body which got me to another thought or maybe a state of being.

This energy felt like love, but this love felt fluid, liquid, pliable like water and beyond water if that makes any sense.

It felt good so in my awareness it made perfect sense, and still makes sense.

I can feel this just by remembering the experience I tried with the knee and hip.

I’m intending to do more of this and feel where this goes.

It sure feels like liquid love to me.

Balance has a fluidity to it as we somehow always move.

Even though we think we’re standing still things still are moving internally.

This kind of energy exploration or experiencing feels really good.

Maybe beyond good and more like fun.

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Go With The Flow

I woke up this morning with the thought of going with the flow so I decided to write a post about this feeling of flow and how I apply it to my skating and beyond which enables me to feel flow and not just think about flow.

To me; flow is like being, and being to me has no resistance to it.

Water has no resistance when we go with the flow of the water and not fight the water.

Riding waves in the ocean is to me the same as I go with the waves rather than fight the waves or the current of the water.

I have also experienced fighting the water and I almost drown, because I tried pushing and fighting with the water.

Being merely is, and because being merely is the way we apply being in our lives could make a difference as to how we relate our experience of feeling flowwhich to me is lack of friction, and lack of friction has less stress, and brings me peace.

The idea of merely being for some folks feels threatening because resistance seems to be the way we as humans like to process our stuff.

I am also using my heart center to guide me as well as Course in Miracles

Which uses ideas like The Holy Spirit.

We all have this spirit, but call it by different names.

I truly believe that the Holy Spirit is really my imagination.

In my belief system, imagination started everything.

How cool could this be, and how powerful this could be when used to the fullest.

When you discover your imagination, and really use it, your world could change.

Real power to me is gentle, kind, and there is a real sense of flow which to me represents lack of friction.

On the ice, the blades flow, and the friction feels less when my blades feel the flow.

Peace and relaxation are the keys to feeling and following the flow of your life.

This could be why so many people when get out of their own way can do so much with so little forceful effort.

The inner is always quiet as the outer stuff does its dance.

Flow has a language of its own.

Learning about flow to some folks is like learning a new language.

The Language Of Sensitivity

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Get Your Dreams Out Of The Drawer




Six Steps to Setting and Achieving Dreams In celebration of Setting and Achieving Your Goals In 2009 Here are the six steps that have helped me and my clients achieve that dream that’s been in the drawer for years or maybe centuries in a matter of months. President Obama touched on all of them in his speech. 1. Energize your imagination to launch your dream out of the drawer 2. Make Your Dream a priority by setting up systems of accountability 3. Set specific parameters for your dream so you become a filter for only things that support your dream 4. Create anchors in your subconscious that alerts you when your dream is being supported. (mind maps, scripting, sensitive movement skills) 5. Organize your relationships in a way that fuels your dreams 6. Do what ever it takes to experience your dream now! Listen to a 30 minute content rich conversation with Director of Scripting for Success TM Ruth Anne Wood and host, Monica Pace who go into great detail how you can activate each one of theses steps in Setting and Achieving your dreams STARTING NOW! Process created by Ruth Anne Wood and Stash Serafin 6 Steps to Setting and Achieving Your Dreams CREDENTIALS: Stash Serafin inspires and teaches people on and off the ice and has appeared in the national media since the 1970s, skating with local and world-class figure skaters despite being blind since birth. Ruth Anne Wood is the director of Scripting for Success™, a production company that helps clients set and achieve impossible dreams. She is the editor of the e-zine Script Your Success and of multiple books. Serafin and Wood have written YOU CAN’T GET IT ‘CAUSE YOU’VE ALREADY GOT IT. AVAILABILITY: PA, nationwide by arrangement and via telephoneCONTACT: Ruth Anne Wood, (215) 872-5035 (PA); ruth@scriptingforsuccess.com; Stash Serafin, (215) 806-0799 (PA); Stash@stashskate.com; 3 minute B roll Blessings, Ruth PS. Please weigh in on facebook and remember to post your commitment to your "impossible" dream on the wall so we can all support you! Ruth Anne WoodScripting for Success TMSet and Achieve your Impossible DreamsEmail: ruth@ScriptingForSuccess.comfacebookEnlightened Comedy Blog76 E.State StDoylestown, PA 18901Call: 215-872-5035 BOOK: Group Coaching/ Seminars/Talks/Interviews Copyright © 2009 Scripting for Success.
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