Health and Exercise

The first time I ever looked into someone elses mind was in San Francisco. My wife and I were meandering through the shops in Chinatown, and we entered a shop where a grouchy old Chinese lady sat on a stool in a corner. As we peered at the various odds and ends, the grumpy one snapped at her daughter, “Look, look, look, everybody just look!”

Walking down the street after we left the store, I asked my wife, “Did you hear what that old lady said?” “How could I,” my wife peered up at me intently. “I don’t understand Chinese.”

Speaking in Chinese, and I had heard her in English. In essence, I had read her mind and translated her thoughts into English. And I could do this, I instantly knew, because of the martial arts I had been studying.

The mind is like a big radio transmitter, but it transmits, and picks up, thoughts. The sad fact, however, is that the mind is always full of static. Children can usually read minds, but they outgrow the ability and don’t even remember it when they are adults.

In the martial arts you use the discipline of the body to clear out the distractions and static. You do this by focusing on making the moves of your form perfect. Eventually, the distractive static goes away, and the original ability to read minds is once again unleashed.

The problem, of course, is that the martial arts are so messed up that it is difficult to find a form, or series of forms, that work in the proper manner. Oddly, almost any form can work if it is properly analyzed, and tweaked so that it is scientific and true. This normally takes a tremendous amount of work, occurring over a lifetime, but the process can be sped up if one looks to the proper science.

Interestingly, the old Taoist writings of such arts as Tai Chi and other Wudang arts, speak of being like a child in your approach to the world. I also saw mention of this concept in works of Zen Buddhism. Unfortunately, by the time one resurrects this ability one has become old.

Nevertheless, the old stories are true, the martial arts really do work, and in ways heightened far above fighting. Indeed, though the martial arts teach people how to defend themselves against attackers, abilities like reading minds are the real start. And the beginning of the start, for most people, is simply walking through the doors of that neighborhood training hall and learning a little Tae Kwon do or Hapkido or Shaolin.

Al Case, 4O years studying martial arts, has written a free ebook which explains the Martial Technology for fixing the martial arts. It is available at his website, Monster Martial Arts.