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The Mind Is In Charge Of The Body; Internal Martial Arts

By Marci Glover


It is hard to believe that what the body feels is totally an issue of the sublime. The Chinese who founded internal martial arts held that it is practicable to dictate the nervous system together with the respiratory system using internal mechanisms to create a human being who is strong; both inside and outside. The originators of this genre wanted it to spread to all parts in the world. Currently, it is practiced in California just like it was in China. They codified their ideologies and passed them on for future generations.

The people who came up with this genre spent most of their time practicing stunts, mastering them and comprehensively describing skills to other people. They came up with basic ideologies for internal martial arts like power without effort, body balance and energy within. They also came up with major guiding principles for this genre; body and mind relationship and physical mechanisms. These are still the ones giving guidance to practitioners of this trade up to today.

Body mechanism is a principle that asserts that human beings are made of hard tissues which interlock to form a skeleton. These hard tissues are covered with the soft tissues mainly composed of ligaments, muscles and tendons. When the hard tissues interlock, they cut down the work that was meant for the soft tissues to very low levels.

According to the founders of these principles, the human body works like lever machines. It has fulcrums; turning points that turn, and in the process, reduce the workload. So, just like the fulcrum in a lever system, an artist must find a suitable posture to multiply the effort applied in order to destroy his/her target.

The empty full ideology entails minimizing wastage of body strength through possession of the ability to distinguish between what is empty and one that is full. This ability helps one move his/her steps more briskly and steadily. It also helps one remain balanced even when an opponent pulls him/her. In a fight, a fighter is supposed to identify the full and empty parts of the body of the opponent. He/she should then attack the full.

According to the founders of internal martial arts, pain can be avoided through involving the mind whenever the body is hit by anything that can cause pain. If the mind tells the body that there is no pain, then no pain will be felt. This is because the mind coordinates every activity in the body; including sensing stimuli. So, for physical strength to have any value, the mind must be involved.

On top of being a good way of exercising, this type of practice serves as therapy for both the physical body and the mind. Usually, a person performing it stops thinking about things around him/her and puts his/her mind in a state of relaxation. This is called sung in Chinese. Sometimes, poor posture can lead to dysfunction; sung gets rid of this dysfunction. It is one of the most mandatory skills in this practice.

Internal martial arts is a genre that focuses on the ability of the mind to control feelings and how it helps reduce the energy spent during a fight. California has become fond of these practices. Very many people in the city engage in these practices around the city. Recently, a curriculum on this field was started in the city as a way of preserving these practices.




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