{"id":3210,"date":"2021-04-12T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mindhacker.com\/?p=3210"},"modified":"2021-04-12T09:57:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T14:57:46","slug":"muay-thai-fighting-a-form-of-meditation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mindhacker.com\/2021\/04\/12\/muay-thai-fighting-a-form-of-meditation\/","title":{"rendered":"Muay Thai Fighting: A Form of Meditation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Muay Thai Fighting.<\/strong> Today during a rather strenuous Muay Thai session I noticed something that was very similar to a feature of; Deep Meditation, Breathwork, and Tantric Yoga. At a certain point, there\u2019s a deep feeling that comes up that we don\u2019t like, and the mind does everything it can to avoid it. The Buddha described avoiding this feeling as the basis for all Dhukka or suffering in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n During the fight class today we engaged in a very intense, no-stopping conditioning training. We were jumping, kicking, punching, jacks, burpees, more kicking, kneeing, elbowing. By the end of an hour of no breaks, the body felt like it was almost falling apart. This is when things got interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The pattern I noticed was that a certain feeling would build up in the body, then in a flash it would stop moving. I started to pay attention to the flash, and further noticed that the mind was \u2018checking out\u2019. Either a thought or something else would pop into awareness, and the body would fade into the background. This is the point where the body, clearly preferring not moving, decided to stop moving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I decided to bring my awareness deeper into this process and watched what happened just before the check out. There was this feeling, not really pain, but more of a discontent with what \u201cis\u201d, that was arising and growing. At a certain point, the mind was lost and the body would go into \u201cdefault mode\u201d where it just rested.<\/p>\n\n\n\nMuay Thai<\/strong> classes – An Intense Training<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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