Excerpt from Claire Burkes journal. It captures what makes ice hockey so special.... Effortlessness. This word stood out for me because so often Im my own worst enemy. Struggle is a frequent word in my vocabulary. Effortlessness sounds wonderful. I think its like that idea about happiness...that we are most happy when we are concentrating so fully on something that we lose self-consciousness. Thats what I think of with effortlessness, a kind of grace, letting the joy of living flow through me. When I was learning how to play ice hockey, I would fall asleep visualizing myself doing pivots, quick stops and dekes. It was so foreign and thrilling that it consumed my whole being. It wasnt effortless. But somehow I came closer to that because I was so focused on learning. I was focusing so intently that I lost my self. Thats where the sense of grace lives. Thats where I find effortlessness, when I can lose the self-conscious self, when my actions are about something greater than me.
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 17:02:45 +0000
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