The first time was awful, and ued to be awful for months and months and months. I had not focused on the psychological part of what it would feel like to push yourself down 20, 30 feet,. turn around to look up to see the surface, and see nothing. So that was something that took a long time to get my head around. It didn't help that at this free diving competition i saw a lot of reckless people in reckless things - bloody faces and passed-out people. If you ever look into someone's eyes when they've passed out, you're looking into the true abyss. And so that's something that still gives me the chills.
James Nestor has written for Outside, Scientific American, The Atlantic, Dwell, The New York Times, and more. His book Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves was a finalist for the 2015 PEN/ESPN Award For Literary Sports Writing, an Amazon Best Science Book of 2014, and more. Nestor has appeared on dozens of national television shows, including ABC's Nightline and CBS Morning News, and on NPR. He lives and breathes, surfs and writes in San Francisco. Nestor's new book, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (https://amzn.to/3ekUIJS) is a myth-busting and paradigm-shifting look at how we breathe, what it does to us and how to harness breathing to transform our health and lives.
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