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- From: azw@aber.ac.uk (Andrew Michael Woodward)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: Lucidity & MA
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.141044.9709@aber.ac.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 14:10:44 GMT
- References: <1j670tINNcet@ensta.ensta.fr> <EfKndfc00k00B31gZ2@transarc.com>
- Organization: University of Wales, Aberystwyth
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- > 1) Practice sparring, but make sure that while sparring, you
- >don't let your "lizard brain" take over. That means that you have to
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- Nonononono! You need the lizard. The lizard is quick. The lizard is strong.
- The lizard is not affected by emotion. The lizard keeps you alive.
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- Therei s no way to fake risk - you always know that in the end event you'll
- be OK. This is a problem for combat sports for obvious reasons. Take up
- an alternative high risk sport where success does not mean damaging
- someone (the lizard unfortunately knows no self restraint!). Fro instance
- climbing. You'll know when you're getting it right cos when the lizard
- wakes, the world will go quiet, into slow motion, you'lll have more strength
- than you knew and you will survive. The lizard is more use to you than any
- number of practised techniques. It is a state of consciousness that can only
- be refined, having experienced it once. How you provoke the first time to order
- to start the ball rolling, I have no idea.
-
- The more you use it, the sooner it cuts in. This is a good reason not to
- overdo it - the lizard is not a good partygoer.
-