What is Flow? What is valuable about "Zen". What can this brain state give us? Checkout my new film "Snow Roshi" for a personal exploration of this heightened state.
Snowboarding and Flow
I have been an avid snowboarder most of my life. Others are always asking me why? Why would I spend so much time doing this? Why would I keep risking my safety to push my limits. FLOW. When you push your mind and body to an extreme a certain state of consciousness is enacted. Akin to deep meditation, psychedelics and other mystical states of being it offers you clarity. An awareness so profound you can't escape it.
The global predicament requires from us awareness. If we are going to harbor this species into the future we need to be very, very aware of where we stand. Of who we are. We must master our own minds so not to be fearful. Once we accept the current predicament we can move forward from there. Together. We must all agree of where to go from here.
Here is a personal film I have been shooting since January and editing for the last few months. It's a work of great love and patience. It has helped me figure out what I am thinking about and how I feel about it. We are in the "malevolent modern".
This is a film about snowboarding yes. But it is also about society. Our civilization. I hope you enjoy and it makes you think.
So please enjoy. . .
Snow Roshi
I would love to hear what you guys think! Feedback and constructive criticism are welcome. I want to connect with snowboarders, and free thinkers. Anyone willing to live life in an adventurous way in order to come to a better understanding of oneself and the great hallucination we are all participating in.
The 2 voices in the film are my own and a man named Dr. Christopher Ryan. The sound was taken from his Podcast 'Tangentially Speaking'. I have used his voice in another of my videos 'Waiting for Winter: Seattle. I sent him the video and to my surprise he loved it. He decided to share it on his podcast and post it to his site. It was a big moment for me. As a personal idol of mine it was a huge paradigm shifting moment for me to have one of my works recognized in such a way. I have sent him this video in hopes that he enjoys it as mush as he did before.
https://chrisryanphd.com/tangentially-speaking/
If you are interested in this concept of Zen/Flow states. Here is some great content from the 'Flow Genome project' Who are doing amazing neural research regarding Flow states and what it can teach us.
As always I am so grateful for Steemit!
Love you tribe,
A.R.Q
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Yet another awesome edit! Just some thoughts on this: The snowboarding footage is amazing and the juxtaposition of your message vs the snowboarding aspect is great. In fact the entire dichotomy of different elements of the film is really fascinating. In such a short film however both elements felt very rushed. We would suggest focusing your message more for a film less than 10 minutes in length. One other thought is that with the intensely political message on one end, the snowboarding gets a little lost. It feels like a nice break and zen moment during otherwise political message. It always seems like when we start a project with certain ideas going into it, the product tends to morph into a new vision. Did you experience that during the development of this project?
It is really awesome that one of your personal heroes latched on to and enjoyed your project so much. Super Stoked for you! It is a really great project and we cant wait to see more.
Yeah I very rarely have an exact idea for what I want a project to be. I have some concepts and ideas that I am thinking about in life and I just go with it. Let the muse speak. I know it may be sort of an abstract video and a little jumbled but thats what came out haha.
As always thanks for your feedback it means a lot.
Amazing post! =) If you want to connect with other extreme sports fellows, Feel free to check my last post, maybe you’ll like it! <3
Hey thanks @troilo I will definitely check your stuff out. Thanks for watching.
Haha that was fricken awesome!
We ARE living in the end of an empire, a time when everyone talks but no one listens...
A time when everyone wants to be noticed but no one notices what's happening to the country, what's happening to the planet.
The way you wove such an important message into a cool extreme sports video is brilliant.
The editing is great too.
It's content like this that deserves to be at the top of the trending page, not some of the mindless junk that stays there for days.
Upvoted and resteemed even though I'm still minnow food so it won't do much lol...
Look forward to all of your content :o)
Peace,
Michael
Hey I really appreciate that. Steemit is the only platform I feel like I am really conecting. One day ill get to the trending😊 ill gladly take your minnow food!
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