News and updates from Norwich Kung Fu Academy.
15 November 2019
Protection from the greatest threat to your life. People often ask about self defence in terms of being attacked. They don’t always get that Kung Fu is a lifestyle, a process of personal development. If it were just a way of fighting off a violent attack it would be a much simpler thing. Although even […]
15 November 2019
Stop trying to find yourself – create yourself. Stop burying your head in distractions because life seems to lack meaning, find your own meaning. This blog follows on from last week. We live in a culture where Anti Depressants and the most prescribed drug after Antibiotics. Certain demographic groups are more likely to die from […]
15 November 2019
Who do you think you are? Someone recently commented that in their heads they were still about 25. The person in question is in their 50s. I find myself that if I catch a glimpse of myself in a mirror, when I’m not expecting it, I’m always shocked that there’s an old guy looking back. […]
15 November 2019
It is so often the case that the most useful lessons (and, it appears, the hardest) are the simplest. In Yorkshire they say “If things don’t change, they’ll stay as they are.” We know it. So why does it take so long to sink in? I heard a definition of insanity once that described it […]
15 November 2019
A theme that has cropped up several times since the last workshop has been on achieving freedom from past memories. I say ‘memories,’ not the events themselves which is the way many people habitually refer to their past traumas. It is not the event that is the problem, but the memory. The event is of […]
15 November 2019
This is very much the continuation of last week’s blog, so be sure to read it in conjunction with that. This week I’m moving way from brain function and into eastern mysticism. For those unfamiliar with how we use these ideas, let me quickly explain. Whether you are looking at the Kabbalah tree of life, […]
15 November 2019
The key to self discipline – How to supercharge your resolutions. Its a new year and we’re all keen to re-animate our earlier failed goals. Can we conjure up the illusive motivation and self discipline to do it this time? Here’s the thing. If you keep doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep getting what […]
15 November 2019
It is typical to understand many Zen masters as teaching that we should aim to be above such things as emotions. Taking everything in one’s stride, finding the balanced path between extremes. Neither getting over excited or happy, nor angry and frustrated. No, no and a hundred times no. Have them all, emotions are literally […]
15 November 2019
What actually is STRESS? And how to reduce it. We hear so much talk about stress that you’d think we all knew what it was. The reality is that we use the word so much that it has no clear meaning. In engineering stress is a definable effect on a a material or a joint […]
15 November 2019
I grew up at a time of international anxiety. When I left school in 79 the principal topic of conversation among my peers was, what would we do when the 4 minute warning came? Notice, not, ‘if’ but ‘when.’ We totally expected that at some point we would be in a nuclear war with the […]