Tapping into your Real Strength!
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I am about to say something really rude. I'm about to say you're doing something all wrong. It will be interesting to see if you can take it.
Glance through the martial arts magazines and you will come across lots of ads that appeal to your desire to get stronger. Maybe they tell you you can beat up the bully who kicks sand in your face, or maybe they tell you will get the girl if you can just be stronger. The problem is...they're not right.
Your muscles are actually strong enough as they are. You are strong enough to do just about anything you want right now. No increase in your strength is really required, either to do the martial arts or anything else...including knocking down that bully.
Real strength can be measured in several different ways. There is the very real strength you measure by the amount of friends you have. This is a strength that never ends, and is opposed to the fellow who takes martial arts just so he can beat people up.
Then there is the strength of energy, which you cultivate by breathing and stretching and slow motion. This strength lasts ten times longer than muscle strength. This strength will never slow you down or bulk you up, such as can be experienced by many types of weightlifting methods.
This energy strength is available through forms practice. The slower you do the form, the more strength you will have. The reason for this is because doing forms cultivates awareness.
The ultimate strength is awareness. When you do something, maybe do a form requiring low stances, you become aware of how your legs work. This makes them work better, and the legs become measurably stronger.
Simple exercises of the weight lifting type give you some strength, but you tend to focus your awareness on the iron, and not of your body. When awareness becomes focused on the body part, this makes the body part stronger, and gives you more real strength. It is awareness that will ultimately make you as strong as you can be.
Awareness of how your body works, as opposed to the endless lifting of iron. Awareness that is not based upon your desire for self-image, but rather for self-improvement. Awareness, but most students are stuck in such ruts that they are unable to seek out methods that increase awareness.
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