The different types of swimming styles and strokes mainly include the freestyle stroke, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly stroke, and sidestroke.įor competition, the versatility will allow swimmers to compete in multiple events. Now, in the Reconstruction of our world-let’s help to leave it better and more beautiful than we found it.Whether you want to learn how to swim for competition, exercise, or safety, it’s best to learn several different swimming strokes as each offer different advantages in different situations. More than ever we need the beauty makers and visionaries, the poets and painters and preachers. Now, as always, we turn to the artists-you and me-to hold a new vision of the world. Perhaps the ripples we’ve been feeling is humanity herself shaking to be alive. What does a community of sensitive, emotionally attuned people do now, at this threshold? When there is a feeling of cosmic trepidation, hesitation, when making simple decisions seems overwhelming? When your creative work-wherever on the continuum you’ve been over the last 18 months-is again shifting. We are facing the aftermath and not sure how to reacclimate. So combine the two-reverse culture shock with a bit of collective PTSD, and we get closer to defining this strange, in-between space we’re inhabiting these days. ![]() No wonder they struggled (and continue to struggle). Which means they were in a war zone on Tuesday thrown into their old lives and their old relationships on Wednesday. But in Vietnam (and subsequent wars), most soldiers were debriefed and flown home on airplanes-leaving them only 18 hours to transition worlds. There were weeks of distance, processing, grieving, and connection among the soldiers that helped the re-entry process. There was a natural buffer-a liminal time between the site of the trauma and the re-emerging into society. In earlier wars, soldiers traveled home by ship, a process that took several weeks, and they traveled together. It was once explained to me that US soldiers in Vietnam began to experience more frequent instances of PTSD in part because of airplanes. My grandparents lived in the shadow of the Depression for the rest of their lives. But we carry the aftermath of life-threatening trauma-wars, accidents, abuse, starvation, or a deadly pandemic-in our bodies, sometimes for years, maybe even a lifetime. There is also the very real trauma of surviving a life-threatening situation. Returning created just as much disturbance as leaving-maybe more because we were unprepared for it.īut reverse culture shock is only part of the current equation. We had changed, and the old ways now seemed foreign and awkward. We had been well prepared for the culture shock of Nepal-but, after 3 weeks of adjusting to a new everything: new climate, altitude, food, customs, time zone- we were completely unprepared for the re-entry. I first experienced it after spending 3 weeks on an anthropology trip in Nepal in college. You probably know about culture shock-if you’ve experienced it, you may remember feeling unmoored in the new spaces-not quite sure how to navigate in the face of so much difference. But…you eventually embraced the unfamiliar and opened your heart to the difference, and in that opening you found new ways, new foods, and new rituals.įewer people talk about reverse culture shock. A kind of reverse culture shock tinged with trauma. It’s like slipping between worlds, inhabiting a strange, transitional, duty-free zone between here and there. ![]() I’ve been trying to put a name to this feeling for weeks. For 18 months we’ve been dreaming of this kind of permission, but now we may feel stunned. In the U.S., there has been an impulse to move forward, and quickly! Take off your masks, everyone! Hug your friends! Go to Disneyworld! And yet it’s unsettling. ![]() Are you feeling the shift? Something in the water these last few weeks… unfamiliar frequencies, extra static that you can’t quite put your finger on? A cautious shift into…joy? Hesitancy? Both?
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