{"id":7840,"date":"2025-10-13T02:46:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T06:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aboutrc.com\/?p=7840"},"modified":"2025-10-13T03:01:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:01:47","slug":"the-dive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/?p=7840","title":{"rendered":"The Dive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I learned not too long ago that jn Skydiving you can control your rate of descent by how you adjust your body.  If you put your body out stretched like a starfish &#8211; it\u2019s called a Box position. You\u2019re going slower (obviously still falling).  However if you bring everything in like a pencil and tuck your head down &#8211; you\u2019re going into a dive.  By reducing your drag &#8211; you can get to terminal velocity faster &#8211; about 186 miles an hour.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-rafael-quot-rc-quot-concepcion wp-block-embed-rafael-quot-rc-quot-concepcion\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"RjiXKvJ1Fx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/?p=5788\">The Coffee Master Totem<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;The Coffee Master Totem&#8221; &#8212; RAFAEL &quot;RC&quot;  CONCEPCION\" src=\"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/?p=5788&#038;embed=true#?secret=YXjnbp6dVN#?secret=RjiXKvJ1Fx\" data-secret=\"RjiXKvJ1Fx\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>About 9 years ago I wrote a blog post about heading to Dubai and meeting my Coffee Master.  In it , I talk about feeling as I have been pushed off a cliff and in this freefall.  Thanks to Abdul Hamid &#8211; I got the perspective to look around at my surroundings and appreciate the fact that there has been this thing around me that\u2019s dictated these invisible currents &#8211; allowing me to go where I am needed.  I know it sounds weird &#8211; but it\u2019s something I\u2019ve just felt. I didn\u2019t really have the vocabulary for all of it until I sat with Sara who was able to clearly see what I had been failing to put my finger on (of which you will always have my love and admiration for those moments ).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It would be many years until I came face to face with that experience in finding another totem that pointed me to Michael Singers The Untethered Soul.  For the first time in a long time I felt like I finally understood what I was doing unconsciously.  That was such an awesome feeling of feeling not alone &#8211; and that you could get lost in that feeling and these amazing emotions.  Some terrifying &#8211; but most just intensely good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Circling back to a conversation on coffee I got a chance to go back to that post and sit with it again.  I remembered that while I was pushed off a cliff &#8211; the cliff wasn\u2019t where I wanted to be.  It didn\u2019t have purpose. While I hated the feeling of falling- Abdul was able to calm the voices enough to allow me to enjoy the view &#8211; seeing it as a controlled fall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This  past year has felt a lot like that.  I can see the fall &#8211; but rather than freak out about the position &#8211; I\u2019ve just put myself in a box.  Being able to slow the fall has let me survey the area and see what is at the ground. The very specific target.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Avengers there\u2019s a scene where Steve Rogers jumps out of the back of a plane. A couple of seconds in a box he looks down and adjust into a straight dive.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that\u2019s kind of where I feel. I am right now. I was able to survey the area, I adjusted my body, and headed into a straight dive. As everything starts going faster I feel like there\u2019s bits and pieces of me that are just flying off the size and the edges. But there is a sense of clarity as the speed gets faster. I feel like I\u2019m aiming and I\u2019m trying to figure out how to be able to go faster still. That &#8211; feels like purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a cool picture in my head and a great way for me to remind myself about what I\u2019m doing and why I\u2019m doing it. Just go faster \u2013 try not to break any more pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For most of all. Don\u2019t lose purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I learned not too long ago that jn Skydiving you can control your rate of descent by how&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blog","8":"cs-entry"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7840"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7847,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7840\/revisions\/7847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutrc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}