ashe wrote:Doc Stier wrote:Based on my own personal experiences, I believe that increased speed of perception and increased quickness of automatic reactions and spontaneous responses are excellent barometers of personal progress in any legitimate internal art.
These attributes become the optimized norm with continued practice and training over time, IMO, and are to be expected with unwavering confidence at all times and in all situations without exception. Very cool!
Doc Stier
doc, just wondering if you trained in cma before you went to vietnam, and how you feel about what happened to your sense of "danger" during your time there, compared to before and after.
Hey, Ashe:
Yes, I had trained in CMA for nearly 9 years before I arrived in Vietnam. The "sense of danger", as you call it, was employed as an additional sixth sense by everyone on my Marine Force Recon team, both individually and as a coordinated group. Whenever danger was in the air, whether a clear and present danger or a vague unseen danger, we were acutely aware of a feeling that something wasn't right or that a situation was not what it overtly appeared to be.
For me personally, this sixth sense awareness was always accompanied by a nauseous feeling in the pit of my 'stomach', immediately followed by intense heat and vibration in the lower abdomen area (tan-tien). The heat and vibration would then spread throughout my body in a huge wave to my extremities. This was my combat ready mode virtually everyday at some point.
As such, it provided an advanced warning sytem that enabled unseen danger to be avoided altogether, without engaging the enemy, or it instantly prepared both mind and body for immediate full combat engagement with optimum efficiency of mental perception and physical response.
Danger of any kind from any source will still generate these same physical sensations and reactions even now.
Doc Stier
