As I've posted pictures from my recent suspension I figured I'd write about it a bit since I keep being asked about it. So i'll write a little story-like thing about it.

I spent days meditating before the day came. Hours of closed eyes and visions of peace already had set me into a calm and relaxed mood that is unlike any other. "You're going to do it," I assured myself. "Three minutes is the goal. But getting off the ladder will just prove it to yourself." Breathing deeply I left my room and headed to meet my friends who would support me in my spiritual journey. I stop to light a cigarette, enjoying the jolt of nicotine that hits my body. They're all standing there smiling, ready. We walk down towards my job, giggling and talking and trying our best to stay dry under our jackets. The downpour only adds to the calm I have. Rain has always been a calming event for me, and a smile spreads across my face as I see the shop right before me. We run across the street into the safety of the dry tattoo shop and hang up our soaked jackets.
"Are you ready?" my piercer smiles widely and seems even more excited for this than myself.
I nod and laugh "its pouring out!" we spend the next few minutes trying to thaw ourselves out as Jesse sets up. He calls me in back and I set myself into a meditation.
"Are they all going to watch?" When I tell him that they are he invites them into the piercing room.
I'm in an entirely new world. My mind is at peace and I feel surrounded by love from my friends. Everyone is there to see me, to support me, and to help me find my spiritual high.
The piercings take longer than I anticipated, unaware that we'd be going through the scar tissue from my previous attempt.
The hooks are in, and my heart is racing. Melinda is snapping pictures of me laying on the table, meat hooks through my skin. We wander downstairs to our "Dungeon" where the suspension will occur.
I meditate further, reaching a spiritual high unlike any other. I light a cigarette once more and Jesse gets everything finished for me to hang. I feel a smile pull across my lips as I get hooked in and let my head drop forward as I prepare myself.
With Jesse on my left and Tori on my right I am lowered down and all of my weight rests on the four hooks in my back. I ask Tori to move away, my hand can't move from where it is. The pain is almost non-existent. A strange pull on my back is all I can feel, and yet it feels amazing. Jesse pushes my body to swing a bit and everything feels entirely different. I'm flying now. It feels as if wings have sprouted me from my back and are allowing me to levitate above the ground. my eyes are closed and my arms are losing feeling. a prickly numbness is encasing me. As the world begins to fade I inform them that I was done, before I passed out and they were stuck getting me down on their own.
The ladder is placed near my feet. I can't move. Jesse unhooks me with a little bit of effort the carries me to a chair. I'm shaking, but seeing the world in a new way. It's different, unexplainable, but everything is perfect. I just look around, and everyone is smiling with me. A connection unlike any other, they all could feel me at peace with myself. As I manage to come back down to the world we talk and smoke and laugh and are all giddy with excitement. It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience for most of them, but I know I'll do it again. I only hung for 2 minutes this time, but next time I'll go for 5. It was the most amazing thing I have done in my life and I don't think any drug can ever top the feeling I had when my body was dangling in the air.