He finally, after much practice, hit the target. Lieh-Tzu was studying to become a master archer. Sex and freediving (or sex and athletic performance) is a very interesting topic, one for another article however. However, holistic arguments suggest that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, and therefore, we must consider other factors such as the nature of the sporting task and individual characteristics. In this case, biological reductionism: physiological arousal causes anxiety and poor sporting performance. This is after Gus and I had a conversation about love and freediving (or sex and athletic performances in general):Īccording to reductionist arguments, complex behaviours and cognitions can be simply explained through a single factor. Example: your issue isn’t lack of relaxation while diving, but rather it could be that a particular dive site or community brings out bad memories.one behaviour separated), it might be situational (i.e. What is the overall issue? Rather than dispositional (i.e. It’s not about putting together individual elements, but rather how they combine as a whole. Holism in teaching and athletism: A person isn’t simply the aggregation of their behaviours and actions. Example: your issue isn’t equalization, it’s the tension present in your facial muscles as you pass through a thermocline.Understanding the individual components to fix them. Learning what the problem is by identifying what it isn’t first. Reductionism in teaching and athletism: Ruling out what isn’t the problem, to find the problem. environment) it arises within takes on more precedence. The sum of individual elements is not the same as all of them combined together. In contrast, holism attempts to explains that individual components are not as important at understanding the entire behaviour/action as a whole. Reductionsim in psychology is the concept of breaking down behaviours (or actions) into different components to understand each one individually and what part it plays in a whole. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – Flow Reductionism in freediving The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… The best moments usually occur if a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. Using the senses, such as is done in meditation, puts us in the present moment as we undertake an action. That we are indeed alive and in the present moment. The five senses could be the only pieces of data (one could argue) that justify our very living. What our body smells, feels, tastes, sounds and sees that makes us be entirely in the present moment. We must acknowledge a most powerful tool to enter a flow-state: sensorial details. Gary McGrath, UK Freediver, -112 meters on one breath Luca sinking into the depths of the Blue Hole, Dahab. This helps me to “press my reset” button if tension arises. I imagine and visualize this movement of water flowing over the very details of my face and the details that define it. I focus on the flow of water over my face as I free-fall. Similar to “Attention De-concentration” taught in the Molchanovs courses, flow-state is about being in the present moment, with a full focus and awareness of yourself and the surroundings that matter. You would not be in a flow-state, but most likely a panic-state. The same could not be said about driving a new road, in a new car at 200 km/h. You can be in a “flow-state” while driving your car, and a road you know well at, say, 100 km/h. Some describe this as “being in the zone” and for others flow is when your skill level and the challenge you face are at similar. When the mind is entirely focused on one task, and everything else not related is not “in attention”. The “flow-state of mind” has been discussed among athletes at the peak of athletic performance. We discussed many things, but flow-state, reductionism and “letting go” are the advice he, and I, wish to dispense in this article. I sat down with Gus Kreivenas one beautiful evening overlooking the Lighthouse in Dahab.
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