Getting Out of Your Body with Classical Martial Arts!
Friday, 12 February 2010 10:04
Author: Al Case
If you are studying a well established martial art, especially karate based, and often Shaolin based, then you are probably removing yourself from your body. The odd thing is that many artists don't know that they are actually removing themselves from their body. They shift their viewpoint to outside the body, and they don't know that their experience is unique and different from other people.
If you are studying a well established martial art, especially karate based, and often Shaolin based, then you are probably removing yourself from your body. The odd thing is that many artists don't know that they are actually removing themselves from their body. They shift their viewpoint to outside the body, and they don't know that their experience is unique and different from other people.
By getting out of your body I don't mean floating intelligence wafting through the universe. I merely mean that you are a little behind your head, not quite sure where your viewpoint is, but know that it is not from your eyes or in your skull. This often leads to increased intensity and abilities in your day to day living.
The surest way to make this happen is to just keep doing your forms. Like a truck driver who lets his mind wander while doing a long drive, the karateka, or kung fu stylist, just gets comfortable, and slowly starts looking at the world in a different way. He starts looking at his body and realizing that he is not his body, that his arms are a little longer.
What has happened is that in learning to accomplish finer and finer motions with his body, the person has gotten out it. Some body movements just require that the person be outside his body to really make them work, and as the martial artist practices these techniques, he doesn't even realize that he is sliding out of the body. Then he starts doing things in a more profound manner, doesn't realize that he has made some sort of a change in the way he moves his body.
The problem, of course, is not that this happens, the problem is to make it happen faster. Being slightly removed from your body makes you a better martial artist, and better in many other ways. Your karate or kung fu or whatever becomes more improved, and there you have the source of legends, and an better version of human beings.
I started using Matrix Martial Arts to accomplish this speeding up. The reason matrixing works is because it is logical, scientific, and takes into account all potential body motions. Simply, if you can see the whole picture, when it comes to moving the body in the martial arts, then it is easier to take control of the body.
The first step in matrixing is to learn how to use your body as one unit. I call this CBM, or Coordinated Body Motion. It is when you start all motion at the same time, end all motion at the same time, and regulate all factors of size, mass, muscle, and so on of the movement being done.
Once CBM is accomplished Matrixing really kicks in. Having coordinated your body, you are now in a position to coordinate the art itself, this results in perfection of form, and you start to move back from your body at a faster rate. Whether you do a form of Karate, or Shaolin, or whatever, the matrixing procedure in Matrix Martial Arts is going to speed everything up, and you will achieve the true art in years instead of lifetimes.
If you are studying a well established martial art, especially karate based, and often Shaolin based, then you are probably removing yourself from your body. The odd thing is that many artists don't know that they are actually removing themselves from their body. They shift their viewpoint to outside the body, and they don't know that their experience is unique and different from other people.
By getting out of your body I don't mean floating intelligence wafting through the universe. I merely mean that you are a little behind your head, not quite sure where your viewpoint is, but know that it is not from your eyes or in your skull. This often leads to increased intensity and abilities in your day to day living.
The surest way to make this happen is to just keep doing your forms. Like a truck driver who lets his mind wander while doing a long drive, the karateka, or kung fu stylist, just gets comfortable, and slowly starts looking at the world in a different way. He starts looking at his body and realizing that he is not his body, that his arms are a little longer.
What has happened is that in learning to accomplish finer and finer motions with his body, the person has gotten out it. Some body movements just require that the person be outside his body to really make them work, and as the martial artist practices these techniques, he doesn't even realize that he is sliding out of the body. Then he starts doing things in a more profound manner, doesn't realize that he has made some sort of a change in the way he moves his body.
The problem, of course, is not that this happens, the problem is to make it happen faster. Being slightly removed from your body makes you a better martial artist, and better in many other ways. Your karate or kung fu or whatever becomes more improved, and there you have the source of legends, and an better version of human beings.
I started using Matrix Martial Arts to accomplish this speeding up. The reason matrixing works is because it is logical, scientific, and takes into account all potential body motions. Simply, if you can see the whole picture, when it comes to moving the body in the martial arts, then it is easier to take control of the body.
The first step in matrixing is to learn how to use your body as one unit. I call this CBM, or Coordinated Body Motion. It is when you start all motion at the same time, end all motion at the same time, and regulate all factors of size, mass, muscle, and so on of the movement being done.
Once CBM is accomplished Matrixing really kicks in. Having coordinated your body, you are now in a position to coordinate the art itself, this results in perfection of form, and you start to move back from your body at a faster rate. Whether you do a form of Karate, or Shaolin, or whatever, the matrixing procedure in Matrix Martial Arts is going to speed everything up, and you will achieve the true art in years instead of lifetimes.
The writer
Al Case has studied martial arts for 4O plus years. A writer for the magazines, he had his own column in Inside Karate. You can find out more about The Matrixing Method by getting his free ebook at Monster Martial Arts.