Why do you bother?!

Looking through the ‘tags’ section of WordPress today I came across this. How To Manipulate Chi – A Secret To Martial Arts (martialartsecrets.wordpress.com/2008/06/10/how-to-manipulate-chi-a-secret-to-martial-arts) Learning to manipulate Chi and have it do what you want, when you want, how you want it, is not something that happens overnight. Many people when they learn that Chi is [...]

A perspective on things

http://sciencehack.com/videos/view/BBsOeLcUARw A film dealing with the relative size of things in the universe and the effect of adding another zero. I like this. Makes me remember just how much of nothing there is within us, that we are not a solid as we are in the habit of thinking. As above so below, or the [...]

A Good list of QiGong related articles

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Nice one Monabooks!!

Apparently the Essence of Internal Martial arts books I and II are sold out. I really shouldn’t have to repeat what I said in an earlier post about the necessity of reading these, but I really think that you need them in your life! If you can brave the awful [sorry guys, but it's my [...]

Tai Chi reduces tension headaches apparently!

As part of the study, the researchers conducted a 15-week Tai Chi program and found that participating patients improved on a quality-of-life based measurement called SF-36 and also on a test called HIT-6TM designed to capture the effect of headaches. A 15 week intervention of Tai Chi practice was effective in reducing headaches. The patients [...]

Another Meditation Article

In 1985, the meditation team made a video of monks drying cold, wet sheets with body heat. They also documented monks spending a winter night on a rocky ledge 15,000 feet high in the Himalayas. The sleep-out took place in February on the night of the winter full moon when temperatures reached zero degrees F. [...]

Furious Angels – Boondock Video

Furious Angels – Boondock The finest MMA highlight video I have ever seen.Blood, emotion, glory and crushing defeats; it touched me. So much more than the uneducated and ignorant view that ‘it’s just two men fighting’ It may be, and perhaps should be, difficult to accept the notion that a prizefighter’s work merits the same [...]

Meditation Books UK

A bit of an experiment in making a website of books that are relevant to this blog.If you fancy a look at some meditation and chi kung books then have a peek at Meditation Books UK

Gym Jones

These guys are without doubt – real men. eg: KNOWLEDGE What you know does not matter – what you do matters. Physical training produces physical memories – not simply muscle memory but a psychophysical imprint, knowledge that is instinctual rather than intellectual. This is useful knowledge. However, before you can forget and allow the unconscious [...]

A training philosophy

I had a bit of an epiphany today: coming home from work and feeling hungry, I wanted to do some QiGong but also to eat. Bit of a dilemma as you’re not really supposed to eat before training, or is it after… or actually in some of the classics isn’t it no training an hour [...]