The Physical Meditiation of Climbing

What is physical meditation?

That point where you've disconnected with all the stuff that life throws at you and you can pay attention to your body: your muscles, pace, breathing, and flow of movement.

That point where your emotions become secondary to the physical flow, where your body's energy levels are telling you more about how you are than the constant pressures of work, money etc. What your body is telling you becomes more important than the banging voice in your head, the need to perform or the fear of failing.

We are as much (if not more) physical beings as emotional beings. Allow yourself to reset into the physical side of your being. The benefits go far beyond a rise of endorphins caused by the exercise.

I love to get in early to work and climb before the music has been turned on. It allows me that time where the movement becomes greater than the outside pressures; if you can find that space of quiet, do.

Although I am a climber, physical meditation can be used in any exercise that you can do on your own, from the gym to skiing.