What Waterslides Taught Me About Life

Growing up in a small provincial town in Azerbaijan, I was neither encouraged nor allowed to be sporty. Up until last year, my first and only waterslide experience was 20 years earlier, back in 2003. I was in Hungary on a study session and went to a water park.

A friend encouraged me to go on the biggest waterslide in the park which looked practically vertical and very long. The first ride was terrifying. I got off the slide shaken, but determined to overcome my fear and… had another go on the same slide. Only the second time, I decided perhaps waterslides were not for me.

… Until my daughter started to delight in waterslides and insisted that I came for a ride on our recent holiday.

The first day of the holidays felt terrible. There was so much terror in my body. Every time I went down the slide, my rigid body could feel every ridge and every bump. Speeding up towards the end before full body immersion made me feel even more tense and out of control.

I quickly realized that if I didn’t deal with this fear, it was going to ruin my holiday. If you have ever worked with me, you probably know some of the techniques I use, such as Non-personal awareness. As I sat at the opening of the slide, I recited the lines all the way down the slide.

‘This surrender,

This energy of surrender…

Lo and behold, by the end of day 2, my body started relaxing and softening, especially on the bends of the big slides, while letting go into the water felt exhilarating.

The same activity, but very different experience.

Life can be like that sometimes. You tense up in anticipation of something because there’s so much terror in your body from the past experience. Then because you’re so tense, you feel every bump and setback, spinning out of control.

What if I could help you to release the charge of the past experience, so that you could start enjoying the ride. The alternative is to avoid experiences that used to fill you with terror, even though you might have a very different take on them now.

Because it turns out, I love waterslides! And I have actively avoided them for the past 20 years… So many missed opportunities to have fun.

Let me help you.

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