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Learn to harness your spiritual and mental energy to acquire the tools for survival and success in martial arts. In Mind Power: Secret Strategies for the Martial Arts, Kazumi Tabata, Grandmaster in the Shotokan and Shorinji styles of Karate, offers his personal teachings as to how martial arts students can reach the point where time seems to slow down, quick movements are seen in slow motion, and the full potential of one's inner power can be harnessed. Chapters include: Strategy--basic physical and mental approaches to combat Basic Laws of the Mind and Body--How to harness and maximize the power of one's mind and body Strategy of a Virtuous Man--How, with honorable approaches, to approach and win confrontations How to Interpret Your Mind--Insights into our mind's workings Words and Deeds of a Virtuous Man--Approaches and actions of a man seeking higher ground Strategy of the Mind--Best application of our cognitive instincts The Law of Anger and the Law of Snapping--How anger manifests and how to work with it How to Interpret Wavelengths--Insight into understanding others Strategy of Mu--How to build upon a very Eastern approach; the concept of emptiness The Pinnacle of Spiritual Attainment--Translations and interpretations of ancient writings The Heart of Sutra--Translations and interpretations of ancient writings… (more)
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In Mind Power Master Kazumi Tabata offers his personal teachings as to how martial arts students can reach the point where time seems to slow down, quick movements are seen in slow motion, and the full potential of one's total spiritual and mental energy can be harnessed for personal growth and success.
Kazumi Tabata is a Grand Master in the Shotokan and Shorinji styles of karate. He was sent to this country in the 1960s by his teacher Professor and Master Isao Obata (senior student of Gichin Funakoshi) to promote karate in the United States. Shortly after his arrival in this country, he established and serves as the Chief Instructor of the North American Karate Federation, consisting of schools throughout the United States, Bermuda, and Europe, and the New England Collegiate Karate Conference. Over the years, Master Tabata has had a wide impact on the martial arts, including training the local tactical police force, authoring several books including Secret Tactics, and hosting the first Boston-Aisan Festival n 1993. For more information, visit www.NAKF.org
Life is full of adversities. There can come a time when education, social status, fame, fortune, and even family ties will become useless. At a decisive moment like this, the ability to focus one's total essence-to harness one's total spiritual and mental energy-is required for survival and success. In this book, Master Kazumi Tabata, shares his knowledge in how to achieve this goal.
When beginning martial arts training, students study physical techniques. Only after much time and intense practice can these techniques become automatic. Yet there is a higher level where you feel one with yourself, your opponent, and with nature itself. Your opponent moves in slow motion, you move without thought, and you are unbeatable.
In Mind Power: Secret Strategies for the Martial Arts Master Kazumi Tabata, Grand Master in the Shotokan and Shorinji styles of Karate, offers his personal teachings as to how martial arts students can reach the point where time seems to slow down, quick movements are seen in slow motion, and the full potential of one's inner power can be harnessed.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Book One Strateagy
Basic physical and mental approaches to combat
Book Two Basic laws of the mind and body
How to harness and maximize the power of one's mind and body
Book Three Strategy of a virtuous man
How with honorable approaches, to approach and win confrontations
Book Four How to interpret your mind
Insights into our minds'' workings
Book Five Words and deeds of a virtuous man
Approaches and actions of a man seeking higher ground
Book Six Strategy of the mind
Best application of our cognitive instincts
Book Seven The law of anger and the law of snapping
How anger manifests and how to work with it
Book Eight How to interpret wavelenghs
Insight into understanding others
Book Nine Strategy of Mu
How to build upon a very Oriental approach: the concept of emptiness
Book Ten The pinnacle of spiritual attainment
Translations and interpretations of anicent writings
Book Eleven The heart sutra
Translations and interpretations of ancient writings