Mind Power: Secret Strategies for the Martial Arts (Achieving Power by Understanding the Inner Workings of the Mind)

ISBN-13:	9780804841092
Publisher:	Tuttle Publishing
Publication date:	09/10/2010
Edition description:	Hardcover with Jacket
Pages:	160
Sales rank:	445,516
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.80(d)

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 combatBasic Laws of the Mind and Body—How to harness and maximize the power of one's mind and bodyStrategy of a Virtuous Man—How, with honorable approaches, to approach and win confrontationsHow to Interpret Your Mind—Insights into our mind's workingsWords and Deeds of a Virtuous Man—Approaches and actions of a man seeking higher groundStrategy of the Mind—Best application of our cognitive instinctsThe Law of Anger and the Law of Snapping—How anger manifests and how to work with itHow to Interpret Wavelengths—Insight into understanding othersStrategy of Mu—How to build upon a very Eastern approach; the concept of emptinessThe Pinnacle of Spiritual Attainment—Translations and interpretations of ancient writingsThe Heart of Sutra—Translations and interpretations of ancient writings