Formosa Neijia

This story was provided by BL in a recent comment. It’s a nice story that illustrates the importance of the mental aspect in IMA training. We should never let our physical training overshadow those other parts of training. Enjoy and thanks to BL.
The Assembly of the Cats
Once there was a sword master called Shoken, who […]

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This is a local hypnosis expert that goes around hypnotizing people with an arm pull. This is his description of it: “The Phillips Variation Arm Pull Instant Hypnosis Induction utilizes a moment of misdirection and confusion based upon asking which hand a person uses the most. It is a nice piece to open folks […]

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Ken Wilber is one of the leading guys in the West that can show why science will never be able to fully explain Eastern meditation and the practices that are influenced by them, like IMA. I highly, highly recommend reading the full article that the excerpt below is taken from if this stuff interests you.
Where […]

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I went back and read myth of the deadly old man, a post that I wrote a year ago. Yikes! Did I actually write that? I just don’t see me writing that today. I’m surprised no one recommended I eat a bran muffin.
How some of you have managed to read my blog for so long […]

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As I said yesterday, the implications of looking at IMAs in terms of left vs. right brain activities are enormous. And Jill Bolte Taylor’s experience as someone who came from a very left brain perspective that gained a new understanding of the right brain’s importance is a powerful message to doubters.
Look at what she […]

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Some people think there’s only one way to view the world and those that think differently are just wrong. Many of us can’t seem to grasp the fact that there is another way.

Here is a great clip that I can’t recommend enough (thanks to BL for this). This is a brain researcher by the name […]

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One of the great things about a blog is that you can talk about an idea in different ways through posts until you find a better way to phrase what you’re trying to say. I’ve talked a lot about internal training and culture lately because I’m trying to express an idea but unfortunately I haven’t […]

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Those of you who are members of the Formosa Neijia Discussion group have access to a little treat I cooked up. I have four breathing meditation MP3s in the file section that are free downloads for discussion group members. I will be making these these things available from time to time in the discussion […]

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The main reason that most people won’t get true internal arts, neigong, qiqong, etc. is that we can’t or won’t accept that those things work in ways beyond our current experience and understanding. Most of us simply will not have the mental ability to accept something other than what we *think* we already know.
Some people […]

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