MARTIAL ARTS- A JOURNEY:
Most of the people including the martial artist are often confused with what Martial arts actually is...!!!
Most of the people confuse it with a kind of self defense (and not fighting) which is just a 'Part of 1/4th part' of the Martial arts. People often confuse it with Gym culture which is not at all close to Martial arts way of living style.
So you might be thinking what Martial arts is all about..!!! Martial arts is a Journey. Yes it's a journey to your Mental and spiritiual upliftments by mastering your Physical Body and Internal body. Martial artist are actually a Yogi. For a Martial artist, right from waking up in the morning till you sleep in the night is a Martial arts. Whether one is at home, school, College, office or anywhere in the world one can apply Martial arts.
Anything done with awareness by keeping up the Martial arts values is a Martial arts. I mean to say awareness of self and our surrounding. For example, if you are at office and you are doing your office work with total awareness, i.e with total Dhyana and by sticking to your martial values, this is a martial arts. Same applies if you are at home or you are anywhere in the world where you are doing anything with total awareness and not compromising with your Martial arts values. This is real martial arts.
For knowing values of a Martial artist, please visit my upcoming blog "VALUES OF A MARTIAL ARTIST".
DIFFERENT PHASES OF MARTIAL ARTS:
Below are the different phases of Martial arts which will help you to know more about it. I am able to know this differentiation just because of one of my teacher "Sensei Michael Rajchandran". He is best spiritual Martial artist I have come through in my life till now.
1) PHYSICAL MARTIAL ARTS – Physical Martial arts is mainly related to all kinds of physical self defense, physical strength exercises to toughen the body, flexibility exercises, Gymnastics stunts, etc. In short, it is an art of mastering your physical body.
2) INTERNAL MARTIAL ARTS – Internal Martial arts is mainly related to Breath/Chi/Prana control in body to remain Disease free. This is also used for conditioning/ hardening the physical body. Internal martial arts is mainly responsible for your long life. At higher level, this Prana flow can be diverted to different parts of the body at one's own will to achieve super human conditioning or to hit someone without even touching. I know this sounds funny but luckily there are few masters even in India from Kalaripayattu art who can do this.
3) MENTAL MARTIAL ARTS- Mental martial arts mainly consists of meditation, Upasana and mental strength building exercises. This is one of the most important part of Martial art to remain focused in any part of one’s life. This can be used in the ring fights, street fights, studies, professional work. There are lot of things that break you in your life. Mental martial arts teaches you how to overcome all the obstacles in life.
Some kinds of meditation to be mentioned, but not limited to following, can be
- Effortless Meditation- Simply sit and do nothing.
- Mantra Meditation- Main Mantra is "AUM". However there are lot of other scientific mantras to meditate.
- Open Eye Meditation- In this you sit or stand and focus on any object for long period of time. You can start noticing the benefit of this meditation in 2 days of practice. However continuous practice is needed to have a very sharp focus/ concentration in life. This is the meditation which is best used in physical self defense.
- Closed Eye focus Meditation- In this meditation one has to focus on their breath or any part of the body so that Prana/ Chi can be circulated in that part of the body.
Many people are confused by word Meditation. They think that meditation is something like standing/ siting in some posture and then meditating. However that is just one part of meditation. Meditation must be done on 24 hour basis. Meditation can be done while walking, running, practicing anything, in schools, offices etc. One who knows how to meditate anywhere and anytime is a real meditator and knows meditation.
Not to forget my Kalaripayattu Guru Murugan word about Meditation. He says Meditation should only be done when one wants to achieve Samadhi. According to him one should do Upasana rather than doing Meditation. Upasana is a way of achieving/ doing things by totally concentrating on what we are doing in the present moment. According to me this is also a one kind of meditation which is said as Upasana in Kalaripayattu.
4) SPIRITUAL MARTIAL ARTS- This part of martial arts is the most important part of Martial arts. Every martial artist journey should be to achieve Enlightenment with the help of Martial arts.
As per me, martial arts is the most practical way to develop spiritually. Each and every physical, internal, mental concepts of Martial arts can be linked directly to Spiritual martial arts if one has knowledge to link it. Also each and every part of Martial arts is needed to develop spiritually. Though there are other methods too to develop spiritually but Martial arts is the most effective as it strengthens the physical body, controls the internal body to make one mentally strong so that one can easily develop spiritually. Spiritual martial arts is needed to understand our self, to understand life and its purpose, to understand relation between GOD and us. Spiritual Martial arts makes us strong enough to control all the negative traits in us. These are Lust, Anger, Greed, Attachment, Ego. To control all these is lifetime journey of a Martial artist. Best Martial arts is where Enemy of your's becomes your friend. Just like Buddha and Ungalimaal Daaku story. This is highest level of Martial arts.
I hope you have got what Martial arts is all about..!!!
Namaste.............
Ranjit Mishra
Martial Warriors Academy
www.martialart-warriors.in
Email- ranjitmishramartialarts@gmail.com
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