Today I went scuba diving, this is me sitting on the beach afterwards.
Nothing remarkable about that, other than the last time I went scuba diving was 20 years ago and the experience was less than ideal.
I was qualifying to get my scuba diving license. We were at 10m (30feet) depth I was struggling to equalize and the swell was huge. My head was pounding, I was becoming nauseated by the movement and I vomited into my regulator. In that moment I thought I was going to die. I honestly believed I was either going to choke to death or asphyxiate; or cause myself severe decompression sickness in my bid to get to the top.
Obviously I didn’t die, nor get sick. I was able to stave off the panic, clear my regulator and start breathing again.
But the story I have been telling myself for years, is not that I overcame the incident but that I couldn’t or wouldn’t scuba dive ever again. I just wasn’t cut out for it.
Have you ever had an experience or incident in your past that you believe to be negative?
The power of the mind still continues to amaze and fascinate me. As human beings we are the only animal on earth that has the ability to create story. And the story we create we believe is real.
But we also have the power to change or rewrite the story and believe something else if we choose.
Today I chose to believe I could scuba dive and enjoy the moment with my husband and children who were experiencing it for the first time.
I won’t tell you it was easy. I had a slight panic attack in the beginning but thanks to a patient instructor (who knew nothing of my “story”) was able to overcome it and rewrite it.
I’m not sure if I’ll ever be a scuba diving enthusiast but I learned yet again if we are willing to step outside our comfort zone we can create new story now and live the life we want because we are the author of our life story and we can change it if we want to.
What will you change today in your life’s story?
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