It's as if everything around you becomes quieter. As if time, your breath, stops for a moment. That moment, before your thoughts can speak and your feelings take over.
There's only you and your goal. And your bow and arrow bridge the gap. When your focus is so deep that you can almost touch it. I think it's this profound feeling that we continually strive for. Because more and more of us are seeking the silence within ourselves in an ever-noisier world. And more and more of us are realizing that it's not just the sport we love, but above all the access to our calm mind that it allows us.
Meditation is often a misunderstood term because, unfortunately, hardly anyone who has tried it ever gets the information they need to really do something with it. It's different with archery. Most of us don't realize how many parallels there are between archery and meditation, but that's precisely why we don't get in our own way as much as we would with meditation. We usually have a motive: we want more or less of something. We want to create order in our heads. Find peace within ourselves, or something like that. But we don't understand that it's not about changing anything about ourselves.
Rather, it's often the case that things change on their own once we realign ourselves. We simply can't stop thinking. However, it is possible to focus on our feelings in such a way that the thoughts are no longer consciously perceived. And when it feels as if we're stumbling from one mistake to the next, it's probably high time to realign ourselves and focus on our feelings again.
We often place so much emphasis on avoiding what we don't want that we forget the most important thing: What is it that we actually want? What motivates us, and what do we truly desire? And then we hold onto this feeling, carrying it with us through the course, goal after goal. Protect it, nurture it, and let it grow until our mistakes are replaced by our abilities.
Just as there is a time to reflect on one's mistakes, there is also a time to refocus and then move towards one's goal with renewed vigor.
Bettina Platzer
Bettina Platzer is a great nature lover. She is also deeply interested in the small details of life. She loves being able to see things from new perspectives to give them meaning.
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