Reflections
on Martial Arts and Life Lessons
by Alejandra Armas
Back in 1997, we were in Indonesia for the 2nd World Pranic Healing
Conventions. When we go to these places, Master Choa likes to
study different forms of martial arts, and this time there was
one in particular that appeared very interesting; one in which
they don't touch and literally fight using just energy. We saw
some of these demonstrations, and saw how these guys push each
other and how their faces and skin react to the waves of energy
coming at them... a very interesting scene, indeed. When one sees
them, one gets to think whether they are faking it or not. It
appears they are not and that they've been practicing it for a
long, long time.
After the Convention we went to a retreat with Master Choa Kok
Sui. We were around 180 participants, among us 2 experts in this
form of martial arts... and me... Well, Master was presenting
different forms of expression, and he got the martial art people
to make a demonstration. The room was not ready, and since when
they fight they push each other a lot, Master asked many other
male participants to be behind each of the contenders because
there was a window and a balcony on each side and, being on the
second floor, he was concerned about one of them falling. So after
they demonstrated, Master asked me to stand up and come to him.
He gave me instruction to basically contend with both of them
at the same time. You have to understand that there were many
factors that passed really fast through my mind: I'm a woman,
never liked to fight, never studied martial arts (well, when I
was a 5 years old kid and ended up pulling my sisters hair in
a competition!), and don't have a clue on how to do these things,
and to be sincere I didn't even know what to do. So I asked Master
what he wanted me to do, then he said "nothing." I reacted
by saying "you've gotta be kidding, not even protect myself?"
Master instructed me not to do anything at all, not to react in
any possible way. So I insisted and asked him whether he was going
to put an energy shield on me, like the ones we use in Psychic-Self
Defense-thinking that having one made by Master, the leader of
the group, would be more than a protection for me. He insisted
that nothing, absolutely nothing has to be done. So, I wasn't
very happy with this, but I followed his instructions. I stood
in front of my two expert adversaries and waited. I was told to
not react. By the way, the rest of the group did not know about
these instructions, for it was a private talk between Master and
Me. And my two adversaries? Well, they complained about this exercise,
they thought of it to be very risky and were not happy because
they didn't want to hurt me, but Master said it was OK, and said
to make sure they fight me as if they were fighting an expert.
So there I was in front of them. Standing in a horse position-my
knees we flexed a little and my palms were in blessing position,
but I was not instructed to do any blessing or anything at all.
It was just a pose. Master asked a bunch of other guys, maybe
5 or 6, to stand behind my adversaries. And only one, that was
even shorter than me, to stand behind me. I sincerely didn't have
a happy thought. However, I knew that somehow Master knew what
he was doing, and trusted the instructions. For what appeared
a long period of time, maybe 5 minutes or so, these two adversaries
started "fighting" with me. I could feel the powerful
waves of energy, as if I was in the ocean with strong waves, it
felt as if I was going to get out of balance, and by looking at
their faces, I knew they were doing a good job. I could see the
skin in their faces react as if they were against a super strong
wind that could alter the look of their faces. I know it sounds
dramatic, but for me, IT WAS.
At a given moment, I decided to close my eyes, for I was starting
to get scared and started feeling the energy as well. After what
think was around 5 minutes or so, Master asked the guys to stop
and called me in front of the group, all witnesses of what just
happened. He told the participants to ask me questions. I heard
questions like "what did you do?", "how did it
feel?", "did Master help you?", "Did he put
a shield on you?", "what is the technique?", and
so on... To most of these I just answered the truth: I did nothing,
and Master told me to do nothing, and he didn't even put a shield
on me. Then Master Choa went ahead and started his lecture on
"Non-reaction." The whole exercise was to show how when
we don't engage and react to a situation or an attack, nothing
happens. He found this martial arts discipline to be a good example.
For he explained to us that in this discipline, it normally occurs
that the one who loses is the one who attacks first, for the adversary
takes the energy of the attacker and sends it back to them, never
using his/her own energy. That is why he asked me not to do anything,
they couldn't move me because there was NO energy being projected
by me, and on the contrary, their own energy was coming back to
them. So in a situation of an attack, not engaging, and not attacking,
not reacting allows us to come out of the situation triumphant.
During the same trip, our very last day in Jakarta-Indonesia,
four of us went with Master to see a demonstration by a school.
They were experts in breaking irons, using balls of fire, cooking
with their naked hands in hot oil, pulling super heavy cars with
a cord attached to their necks. So as we were enjoying this demonstration,
he asked me to go play with the balls of fire, to what I, once
again, said no way. However, he insisted and asked the guys to
throw the ball of fire to me, and of course, I had to get it:
or it would just hit me and maybe burn me. So I caught it, and
threw it back at them, and they kept on throwing it to me, and
I felt as if I was just playing with a baseball... Nothing happen.
I was so excited! I could not believe it! Then, when they demonstrated
the braking of the iron-bars, he asked one of the demonstrators
to go do it, and he broke it the first time. After this, Master
asked me to go do it too, and the guys didn't give a new bar,
instead they used half of the one just broken-you know, it is
shorter-maybe a foot long, therefore, less flexible. I was dressed
up, in heels and of course, once again, doubting I could do that.
I definitely thought I would not be able to break the iron bar,
and I didn't. I hit the bar so strongly, just to feel so much
pain my hand! God that was painful! Then he called me and said
to me "you can break it, go try again." Oh, I wanted
to disappear, my hand was in pain and I had to use it again. I
could remember the faces of the guys from the martial art school,
I felt as if they were pitying me. Thin, heels, woman, long hair...they
were actually preoccupied. So I stood up in front of the bar,
and looked at it, and mentally said: "the bar is paper, my
hand is a knife, I can do it." I repeated this so much and
with my fist close I hit it and continue moving my hand downwards
without stopping it. I broke it! And what seemed odd...the pain
completely disappeared. I could feel the power of the moment,
when I chose instead of thinking "I can't," "I
CAN." I was in control of the situation... and today, I still
have half of the bar with me. It reminds me of Trust, and Inner
Power.
Like this, I now have walked on burning coals, and have jumped
from high altitudes to the sea... Trusting and using my mind and
my energy. We've practice projecting energy through our roots
to be much more stable and sometimes almost immovable? I have
practice using my energy to make my body stiff like a board. They
couldn't move my limbs and they could hold me from my head and
feet, and lift me like piece of wood. They even had a heavy guy
sit on top of me without bending me!
One time I was teaching a Pranic Healing class, and one of the
student was a known Martial Arts Master. He came to the class
for he wanted to be able to learn about energy from a perspective
different from that of Martial Arts. He stood in front of me.
I asked him to use force in order not to allow me to bend his
arm, I used energy instead, this time, an energy related to love,
and without any effort, I was allowed to bend his arm. He asked
me for the technique, and I just said: "the energy of non-injury."
It appears to me that Martial Arts is more of a science of Mastering
and harnessing your own energy. If you know how energy works and
how it works within your body, if you use the universal laws and
principles, and you learn to manipulate energy, you definitely
become a person of power, but not the power as we, humans, know
it, but a person of inner power and inner mastery! Welcome to
the world of energy! Welcome to your real self!
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Alejandra is a Personal Coach, Mentor and bi-lingual, International
Speaker and Writer, she is also a Senior Certified Energy Healer
and Senior Instructor of Grand Master Choa Kok Sui’s teachings--whose
principles she uses and personifies. She's worked with celebrities,
important political figures, CEO's, Top Executives, Corporations
both in USA and Latin America. Alejandra is currently based in
Los Angeles, CA.
For more information email Ale: ale@manifestingsuccess.com or
call 310-995-9039
