The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).
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I've tried freediving but unfortunately am mediocre at it, in part because my swimming isn't particularly fast and in part because I have issues with my ears that make very fast descents harder (in diving, it's common to descend to maximum dive depth like a stone in seconds, I usually take much longer). It's a very cool sport though, and it let's you spearfish which is apparently fun and usually banned for scuba divers for reasons of conservation (ie. it's too easy to hunt when you don't have to worry about running out of air in seconds).
I love snorkelling too, it's obviously the only way to enjoy very shallow reefs and it's also best for some encounters with big wildlife like whale sharks where diving is usually inefficient/unnecessary.
Is the issue about the pressure buildup in your ears? That's what I was talking about with interoception. It's a skill that can be learned!
A lot of what our medical society claims is immutable, like overbites or herniated spines or whatever, can be changed with focus and attention to inner muscles.
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