Continue this for as long as you feel you need to. Finish off by shaking or rubbing the energy from your hands and disconnecting as normal. Create a safe, worry-free space for yourself.

As recently as 1971, surf leashes were called kook cords by a surfing world that grew up thinking that a surfer must pay for his mistakes by swimming.

I heard something of it, however, and, young as I was, could not help wondering how men who carried the worst passions of life into their retreat, could imagine that retreat was a refuge from the erosions of their evil tempers, the monitions of conscience, and the accusations of God.

Hugh laughed again, and with such thorough abandonment to his mad humour, that his limbs seemed dislocated, and his whole frame in danger of tumbling to pieces; but Mr Tappertit, so far from receiving this extreme merriment with any irritation, was pleased to regard it with the utmost favour, and even to join in it, so far as one of his gravity and station could, with any regard to that decency and decorum which men in high places are expected to maintain.