Rock Climbing, Stress & Growth, and How to be Present (not just breathing)
Published February 21, 2022
4 Thoughts
1. Breathing & Rock Climbing: Falling and Recovering as We Climb Life’s Mountain
As rock climbers ascend a mountain face, they periodically clip into a new anchor higher on the wall. But no matter how high they get, they still take heavy falls and get slapped into the mountainside.
Critically, though, they’re a little higher up when they recover.
That’s what breathing (or anything you use for better living) does. We’re still going to fall. It’s still going to hurt really bad. But when we recover, we’ll be a little higher up life’s mountain than the last time we tumbled.
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P.S. This was inspired by this +1: Higher Highs and Higher Lows
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