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Training to Live
By Sveneric Bogsater
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All throughout our life?s we assume and take in energies, basically through our breathing but also through the food we eat and
through our relations with other living beings. In Martial Arts as well as in life is it important to have a strong KI. The best way to get a strong KI is to breath correctly with concentration on a deep type of breathing, especially when exhaling. When being young we are physical and we don?t think too much on our breathing, we are more into the physical aspects of training. When you llok at the old masters of Martial Arts you can see how they work with movements as small as possible, they concentrate on their breathing, they exhale from HARA, although their young students rush around and waste their energy. How we use our KI is important, when we are young we don?t think to much on this, but as we get older, our body gets more tired, and we understand more the importance of having a correct and strong KI. Through daily exercise of correct breathing we renew our KI, we cure small pain in our body and age stiffness, and we conserve our strength from day to day. It is also necessary for us to learn not to waste our energy unnecessarily. This is equally important for young as for old. Something else, which causes losses of energy, is the diversion of thought. We seem to use too much of our brain?s forward globs, when we should develop instead our brain?s inner layer to gain a higher intuition and instinct. KI and body must be totally united. It is, especially in Martial Arts, very important to fully understand the importance of right exhaling; the exhaling together with a concentrated KI is the key to Budo.
Training in the capability to concentrate makes us by time able to do just one thing at the time, but at the same time be fully aware of our surroundings and what?s going on around us. In Martial Arts it is of outstanding importance to be able to concentrate our energy on one particular point. In most fighting systems you have to concentrate on the opponent?s eyes or the area between or just above the eyes. With this concentration we will be able to notice all the movements from our opponent(s). When we train we have to concentrate on our training and our breathing, in a real fight we must concentrate on our opponent(s). In general we must be able to concentrate totally on each single situation. "Here and now": I?m writing and I do nothing else but that. Just writing. I?m concentrated on writing this, so it works with everything. No reason to think too much! Think with your body, with your instinct, our body is able to experience everything with intuition; we have to see with the eyes of our total being. Concentration is learnt through training; practice to be concentrated in each gesture you do. It is to go back to our bodies and minds normal and basic status. In that way, and by time, our will becomes secondary and has no real function, what happens, happens naturally, automatically and unconsciously. We do not get tired, if we had to make use of our will we should be tired, mentally and physically, the whole of us should get tired rapidly. In a fight the non-experienced get tired fast because he/she get tensed, mentally and physically. To not get tired we have to live relaxed and concentrate totally on each small thing we do, we have to be what we do, to become alive. The Martial Art is the same; we have to live our Art to be able to become alive in our art. Real Martial Art is a training to live! Sveneric Bogsater - 11th dan - Sweden
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