Stacy Peralta

Stacy Peralta Instagram – I had an unusual thing happen when I was 21; it was 1979 and I was competing in the Lakewood Pro Halfpipe Contest. Six months prior to this event, I had taken a class in Transcendental Meditation and consequently had been meditating twice daily. I was beginning to feel the calming effects of the practice and was in a pretty relaxed state of mind by the day of the event. It was in the finals, in the middle of my second run that I had an experience I can only describe as perhaps mystical. Time suddenly stopped. Everything inside and around me came to a complete standstill and I was suddenly watching myself skate back and forth throughout the halfpipe. I could actually see three tricks ahead and somehow those tricks had already been completed, like I’d already done them, even though I hadn’t. And as I performed each of these tricks, I just watched them happen in what seemed like slow motion, one after the other. Everything was perfect and everything moved in this beautiful and precise manner, as if I had nothing to do with the action, other than witnessing it. The feeling was magical. I felt that if I actually engaged my mind that I would interfere with the incredible orchestration that was taking place. It would take years for me to realize that time hadn’t stopped, obviously, because time is only a concept, even Einstein said it’s an illusion. What stopped was the movement of my mind, and with my mind becoming still I was able to become the observer and watch as the continuous present moment unfolded, trick after trick without any seeming effort on my part. I finished my run, energized like never before and knew that what just happened was so unique and special, and something I was possibly never going to experience again. | Posted on 16/Jul/2023 20:14:11