I enjoyed reading that. A skydiving instructor said that what kills most people is Panic. He said that finding your rip-chord or detangling yourself is something that panic prevents, thus causing death. The "I am going to die" thought is the most dangerous one because no other thought survives in it, even when those other thoughts are what can save someone. This is why drills and practice routines are so important: to have something to fall back on automatically when the conscious mind closes down: to thus do life-affirming things that would otherise be simple and straightforward if it weren't for fear, with such things possibly also reempowering the conscious mind and bringing a person back into the present.
Something else worth mentioning is paranoia and risk aversion. A little bit is healthy, but too little or too much of it either brings one into too much life-force so that situations cannot be managed in small and understandable components thereby making life dangerous, or too little life-force so that one loses the point of being alive, which to me is pushing boundaries and growing.
I enjoyed reading that. A skydiving instructor said that what kills most people is Panic. He said that finding your rip-chord or detangling yourself is something that panic prevents, thus causing death. The "I am going to die" thought is the most dangerous one because no other thought survives in it, even when those other thoughts are what can save someone. This is why drills and practice routines are so important: to have something to fall back on automatically when the conscious mind closes down: to thus do life-affirming things that would otherise be simple and straightforward if it weren't for fear, with such things possibly also reempowering the conscious mind and bringing a person back into the present.
Something else worth mentioning is paranoia and risk aversion. A little bit is healthy, but too little or too much of it either brings one into too much life-force so that situations cannot be managed in small and understandable components thereby making life dangerous, or too little life-force so that one loses the point of being alive, which to me is pushing boundaries and growing.