New Insights Into What Motivates people to partake in extreme activities?
New research debunks the misconception that those who take part in extreme activities are adrenaline junkies with a fatality wish. Instead, expert analysts at Queensland University of Technology say that those who take part in extreme activities undertake it for the experience that is life-changing. In extreme activities, such as arial jumping, big surfing, and single free rock climbing, one oversight, mis-calculation can result in death. However, their acceptance level of popularity and attractiveness is surging. Extreme activities are surfacing into an international trend and we are witnessing a desire for the fascination of it with curiosity, involvement and affinity. While participant statistics in many traditional team and specific activities, such as golfing, basketball, and racquet sports appear to be declining within the last decade, participant statistics in extreme activities have surged, rendering it so that it is a multimillion dollar industry. As yet, there’s been a gross misunderstanding of what motivates people to be a part of extreme activities. Research shows people who take part in extreme activities are NOT irresponsible risk-takers with a fatality wish. They may be really highly trained people with a deep understanding of themselves, the experience and the surroundings while they take action to an experience that is life-enhancing and life-changing. This is very difficult to describe just as love is hard to describe. It creates in the participant a feeling of being very alive where all senses seem to be working much better than in everyday activities, as though the participant is transcending day-to-day means of being and glimpsing their own aliveness and super hero self. For instance, jumpers speak about having the ability to see all the colors and nooks and crannies of the rocks as they focus on their way by. Extreme climbers feel just like they are really floating and doing a dance with the rocks, at oneness with nature. People speak about time slowing and merging with the dynamics of mother nature. Understanding the motivations for extreme activities is important to understanding and relating to humans at large. These activities and participation helps to foster more positive mental, emotional, internal subconscious health. The experience of extreme activity experience helps to express real human ideals, beliefs, principles and self worth such as humility, tranquility, creativeness, imagination, ingenuity, spirituality, and an essential sense that enriches everyday living, everyday routine, everyday activities. The theory-based approach which might make judgments that don’t represent the lived and connection with extreme activities, needed to change to a method which would ensure an open thought process. This gave attention to the lived connection with extreme activities with the purpose of explaining templates that are regular with the individuals experience. Such activities and experience have now been proven to be affirmative of life and the prospect of change. Extreme activities have the potential to stimulate, cause and generate non-ordinary states of awareness that are powerful and significant. These activities enrich the lives of individuals and provide a glimpse into what this means to being a real human full out in expressing potential.
In other words, Extreme activities break the old paradigm of the rules we live by, empowering our limiting beliefs and believing them to be true or just that is the way life is.
Not so, we are capable of being our own hero in our own way, our own story once we stop believing in our imposed limitation thinking!
Most of us do not have to go to the lengths of Extreme activities to change and experience life more abundantly while expressing our own super abilities hidden underneath the old rules of limitation. The first step is to truly decide to change.