Medicine for the Soul

Abstract

Over the years skateboarding movements gave me a greater sense of acute wellbeing and even only the memory of a good session or the sound of the wheels on asphalt from a passing fellow skateboarder can be uplifting (Cesari et al, 2014). A good ‘session’ in the bowl or on the road is like medicine for the soul. Those are moments when the air is temporarily charged with fruitful energy and joy is echoing between our bodies. We usually skate one by one while the others are standing on top of the bowl, ramp or side of the ‘spot’ witnessing the act of the one skating body and it is like we are feeding off of each other’s energy. Increasing power or falling, and again falling, but somehow the power increases once somebody landed a trick and this rhythm can lead to euphoric highs of radiating joy.