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Warrior Work
Week 35
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The Tao of Creating your Mood Part 2
By Peter Hill
“Warriors are responsible for their thoughts, feeling and actions.”
Warrior Slogan
Shinkiryuku – this is a martial principle expressing that your ‘shin’, heart/mind, impacts your ‘ki’, energy and permeates every cell of
your ‘ryuku’, body. Think of a time when you wer depressed or sad, sitting in a chair and feeling the heaviness of your body – your energy
was sluggish and thick; the phone rings and it is someone you haven’t heard from but you have great affection for. As you hear their
voice, your heart jumps, your mind speeds up, your energy shifts to a light, fluid and energetic state and your body leaps out of the chair –
shinkiryuku.
Too often we let external changes impact our heart or mind’s state. And in turn, with simple acts of kindness, we can have a great
positive impact on others throughout our day or with simple acts of rudeness impact others in negative ways that in turn send ripples of
positive or negative energy out and about the worlds we navigate. The warrior’s challenge is to CHOOSE their state of heart/mind
regardless of external situations and to “be the change they want to see in the world” as Gandhi so eloquently put it.
Modern science is starting to explore the importance of this powerful affirmation through both medicine and psychology.
Psychoneuroimmunology is the science of how your mind (thoughts) impact your nervous system and in turn impacts your immune
systems – it demonstrates how negative thinking and feeling impacts your health is a variety of ways. Dr. Carl Hammerschlag has written
a couple of great books capturing real world applications of this science, “The Dancing Healers” and “Theft of the Spirit”.
Another very popular application is in neurolinguistic programming – it is a great tool for helping people change their self talk, break
their negative patterns that do not serve them, their relationships or businesses and put in their places, new affirmations, new behaviors
and new energetic processes. Anthony Robbins is perhaps the person who has done the most to bring neurolinguistoc programming into
the light but there are many teachers and workshops out there if it is something you wish to explore.
In taichi, we recommend always starting your practice by breathing deep, centering yourself, think or speak a positive
affirmation/intent for your training and then beginning your movement – shinkiryuku at work. You can also take someone who is in a
negative state or ‘poor me’ mentality, ask them to stand up straight, take a deep breath and while standing in that posture, tell you what is
wrong – you will find they cannot. Putting the body into a powerful posture impacts the energy field and in turn impacts the mind so the
process works in both directions. It is one of the core reasons why taichi practice over time transforms people’s lives and state of being
with new awareness, new choices and new states of being. Old patterns are transcended and resiliency takes the place of stiff outmoded
patterns of thought and behavior, all in a gentle and non threatening process that affirms the vitality, energy and spirit of the practitioner,
client, teacher and ‘player’. “Warriors create their mood”, becomes a living truth in the heart, energy and body of the student instead of a
slogan that sounds alluring but out of reach. It all starts with a beginning posture and breath and ends with a new state of being. The
tao/way is in training!
By Peter Hill, Copyright 2009
www.getittogether.net
www.worldtaichi.com
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Week 35
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The Tao of Creating your Mood Part 2
By Peter Hill
“Warriors are responsible for their thoughts, feeling and actions.”
Warrior Slogan
Shinkiryuku – this is a martial principle expressing that your ‘shin’, heart/mind, impacts your ‘ki’, energy and permeates every cell of
your ‘ryuku’, body. Think of a time when you wer depressed or sad, sitting in a chair and feeling the heaviness of your body – your energy
was sluggish and thick; the phone rings and it is someone you haven’t heard from but you have great affection for. As you hear their
voice, your heart jumps, your mind speeds up, your energy shifts to a light, fluid and energetic state and your body leaps out of the chair –
shinkiryuku.
Too often we let external changes impact our heart or mind’s state. And in turn, with simple acts of kindness, we can have a great
positive impact on others throughout our day or with simple acts of rudeness impact others in negative ways that in turn send ripples of
positive or negative energy out and about the worlds we navigate. The warrior’s challenge is to CHOOSE their state of heart/mind
regardless of external situations and to “be the change they want to see in the world” as Gandhi so eloquently put it.
Modern science is starting to explore the importance of this powerful affirmation through both medicine and psychology.
Psychoneuroimmunology is the science of how your mind (thoughts) impact your nervous system and in turn impacts your immune
systems – it demonstrates how negative thinking and feeling impacts your health is a variety of ways. Dr. Carl Hammerschlag has written
a couple of great books capturing real world applications of this science, “The Dancing Healers” and “Theft of the Spirit”.
Another very popular application is in neurolinguistic programming – it is a great tool for helping people change their self talk, break
their negative patterns that do not serve them, their relationships or businesses and put in their places, new affirmations, new behaviors
and new energetic processes. Anthony Robbins is perhaps the person who has done the most to bring neurolinguistoc programming into
the light but there are many teachers and workshops out there if it is something you wish to explore.
In taichi, we recommend always starting your practice by breathing deep, centering yourself, think or speak a positive
affirmation/intent for your training and then beginning your movement – shinkiryuku at work. You can also take someone who is in a
negative state or ‘poor me’ mentality, ask them to stand up straight, take a deep breath and while standing in that posture, tell you what is
wrong – you will find they cannot. Putting the body into a powerful posture impacts the energy field and in turn impacts the mind so the
process works in both directions. It is one of the core reasons why taichi practice over time transforms people’s lives and state of being
with new awareness, new choices and new states of being. Old patterns are transcended and resiliency takes the place of stiff outmoded
patterns of thought and behavior, all in a gentle and non threatening process that affirms the vitality, energy and spirit of the practitioner,
client, teacher and ‘player’. “Warriors create their mood”, becomes a living truth in the heart, energy and body of the student instead of a
slogan that sounds alluring but out of reach. It all starts with a beginning posture and breath and ends with a new state of being. The
tao/way is in training!
By Peter Hill, Copyright 2009
www.getittogether.net
www.worldtaichi.com
Warrior Week Home >>