From Slowness to Deepening: The Way of Emersive Awareness

Abstract

In this paper three senses of slow sport are demonstrated through three modalities of technical, and as such, it is found within a precise methodology. Self-awareness is defined by paying attention to what is happening within oneself; here, slowness is methodological and slowing down is ontological. Slowing down is not only methodological slowness; it also involves a synchronisation with the rhythm of the world. Slowing down is both methodological in terms of attention and also ontological by the rhythm of body’s activity. Where slowness in meditation seeks to synchronise consciousness with the body’s rhythms (breathing, heartbeat, sensation) for the purpose of self-control, slowing down is an attempt to immerse oneself fully in the experience of the world. Deepening helps us to discover duration as a dimension of the consciousness of time. It involves mindfulness and awareness to discover alternative rhythms, such as that of one’s breathing or heart rate outside of some physical effort. Body scan meditation facilitates this inner exploration by bringing attention to the internal sensations in order to activate them. This occurs by allowing information from the living body to emerge to a point at which it can be localised by conscious attention