Skiing Val d'Isere or Getting Down It

Skiing Val d'Isere has medium to easy runs allowing beginners to make it down the mountain without having to use the lifts. These runs make very enjoyable skiing but at rush hour the scenario becomes apocalyptic. The prime time for this apocalypse is at 12.30 and 4.00pm. It's the skiing equivalent of rush hour traffic in a big city. Les Santons in Val d'Isere is a prime example. It is the only blue rated piste down to the village from the top of the Bellevarde summit and during rush hour this long narrow gully has the greatest number of overwhelmed bodies on the mountain. For intermediate skiers, the difficulties experienced are equivalent to crossing the Bronx at midnight with a suitcase full of dollars.

This apocalyptic situation is simply that the rush hour crowd in Les Santons, Val d'Isere is subconsciously having thoughts of fear. This charges the slope with the mental energy of fear. When unsuspecting skiers penetrate this fear zone, panic sets in and confidence disappears, leaving skiers stranded in a skiing nightmare that they don't understand. They are not skiing down, they are just trying to get down in one piece! These unsuspecting skiers do not question the origin of the fearful thoughts they're experiencing and consequently cannot recognise why their skiing has gone to pot. As a result, these people stand as ideal candidates to absorb by default the negative mental energy floating above the slope. This is exactly what happens every day to thousands of skiers on Les Santons in Val d'Isere, it is the energy of thoughts that gives the mental commands to our physical body.

So how do you bring this metaphysical reality into a skier's awareness? Money talks, and dollars are what I use to bring forth the thought-awareness in people's minds. Here dollars are used as a metaphor to trace the emotional energy of our thoughts and feelings. Let's consider that we're given one hundred dollars of emotional energy at the top of the ski hill. What we are interested is finding out how we spend the money on the way down. Simple accounting really.

The unsuspecting skier is caught in the vortex of fear in Les Santons at rush hour. How is the skier spending his emotional dollars? Is he spending them on thoughts of confidence or thoughts of fear? What mental commands is he responding to? Can we make a list of his emotional worries looking at his body language? Yes we can! The budget is 100$.

For most skiers 95 $ are invested in reactive fears. How can they even ski at all? How can we as people not suffer from the mental abuse that we are giving ourselves by remaining the victim of thoughts we have imported by default? There will be no mercy on trails like Les Santons, Val d'Isere until we actively begin to take control of our emotional energy.

When only seeking to make physical movements we are only seeking to control the least powerful aspect of our being, which is the physical. Having a thought is just as much an action as any physical movement we make. Our mental self is much more powerful than our physical self. Either we think and act for ourselves, or we let the ambient vortex of thoughts of fear play with our being like a helpless puppet. What happens will depend on how you choose to spend your emotional dollars.

Another example of our conditioning is visible every week in Val d'Isere where the biggest chaos on the slopes is on Sundays and Mondays when people's mental energy is the worst. On those days, I strengthen my thoughts in order to remain clear of the spastic energy of the new skiers who've just shown up. This crowd has just been released from their offices to find themselves plopped on snow-covered mountain tops ten thousand feet above sea level almost in the time it takes to say "Easyjet". As far as they're concerned all hell has broken loose, and it has. This is automaton city galore. No one actually behaves as if they have a mind, everyone is out of control, feeding on whatever mental energy they find to alleviate the intimidating pull of gravity. To break free from this intimidation we have to take a serious look at the invisible world and tell the unwanted thought forms to clear off.

What can you do stop other people thoughts from reaching you?

The first thing to do is to build a shield to prevent other people bad vibes from reaching you by raising your energy. Fortunately this can easily be done through a simple exercise to increase your peripheral vision. This will help you move away from stress and reach the desirable state where maximum learning takes place. This is an ideal way to clear your thought system from the emotions that surround you.

Once in this state you'll feel much more at ease with the perception of space, time and the events around you. You'll no longer feel that people are in your way and you'll develop a perception that space is being created for you to fit through – with no disturbance to your skiing rhythm. That's what being stress-free has to offer. Experience shows that to maintain this state for a useful length of time we need to anchor it. There are many ways to create this anchoe. A simple one I use is to imagine there is an orange balanced on the top of my head. That way, every time we're back on top of the hill, the act of placing our metaphorical orange on our head automatically puts the mind and body in the desired state before we set off.

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