Master Shi Heng Yi
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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I wake up and sit on the sofa and still like just sit. So just being awake and just breathe, literally, just realizing slowly scanning my own body from the inside, going through the body. So really making sure in a way that everything that's going to come up during this day is being perceived very consciously as So it's like I slowly build up my energies, prepare, this is how I would call it.
It doesn't look very special looking from the outside, unless I wake up and the sun is asking for something, then of course I have my duties to do. But if I can really have my day after waking up, still the next hour is still I spend alone. This is what I prefer to do.
Yes. What do you do? Push-ups, sit-ups and standing practice. What's standing practice? Partially it's also, some of them are like mentioned in the book, but literally it is what it sounds like. I choose one position that I'm standing in and then I hold that position for 15 minutes. Why? So let's take all the spiritual part out of this.
Because there are some positions that are looking so strange that at some point I also ask myself, how would somebody even invest his lifetime standing and putting yourself through such a position? Well, there must be a reason why in ancient times it is kept as a as a secret practice to stay like this. And since I discovered it, I do have to say that it's not this one at some point.
The squatting monkey is called. This is a practice that builds up what we call energy. How do you build up energy? It is by giving your mind something where you need to have willpower to maintain it. willpower and development of energy go hand in hand with each other. The will to live, the will to keep going, the will, the will. Strong will, iron will, energy is also very high.
And so literally, some of these positions are so demanding on the body that in order to maintain this position, You have to have will. You need to create something about yourself where you are pushing yourself. And this is, when we have time, I show you the exercise.
When I mention it and then you directly look up in a way to me or any professionals who then do this type of training, of course it's beyond any normal person's abilities. But it's not about you need to learn and do the hard stuff like this. But one thing is for sure. This lifetime, living a life as a human, definitely is not easy. Let's put it like this. Living this lifetime is not easy.
The more wishes you have, the more difficult it becomes. The more ambitious you are, the more you will have to face. So bottom line is, I do think that in the moment where you just on a regular basis put yourself consciously and willingly in different situations and circumstances that actually represent a little bit the structures of life.
There are moments in this lifetime where you are going to be super tense. Super tense. And then it's good to know already how does it feel and what is it that you can do. Well, to learn and release the tension. That's why releasing tension is also a big part of the exercises. The one thing is learning to release tension. The other thing is like when you are too sloppy, when you are too slacky,
how to increase your tension, how to increase the energy level again for you to get back into structure again. So it's always this balance. And ultimately, how does it help people to know the hard stuff? Well, because I do think that it is symbolizing this way of life. It is symbolizing the patterns of what you are going to go through in this lifetime.
In this training that I went through, for the moment, maybe take all the spiritual part out. Simply the Kung Fu training, the Shaolin Kung Fu training. There is a saying which is Shaolin Kung Fu literally means walking through the valley of pain. So, What does it mean? When you are doing stretching, stretching, stretching, stretching, it's going to be painful.
When you are doing strength training, it's going to be painful. When you do conditioning training, it's going to be painful. So the whole path on this martial art journey, it is just filled with working yourself up to the level of where it feels uncomfortable, getting some consistency into the practice until the point where that uncomfortable feeling just started disappearing. Why?
Because somehow you broke that initial comfort zone. But then it doesn't end. Now, next level. Until you're building up, first of all, whatever we're doing, later on I will show you some practices, it's not that I do not feel pain. I also feel pain. Maybe I feel it later.
But the essential part is that my connection, my relation between the pain of the body towards what would it affect in the way of how I take my decisions, that is a different one. I feel the pain. but at the moment I feel the pain, but I see no necessity to still change something about my way right now. Why? Because I can take the pain.
Whereas when you are not used to this pain, you feel it and then it tells you, Let's say it's painful, the mind says, okay, it's not good. And so you directly change something. And this is just the difference. So it's not that I became numb. No, I just feel there is an additional layer that I can observe about myself. It is painful. but it's okay for right now.
I spent my lifetime thinking for some part, to really wanting to build up my body and build up the skills related to the field of martial arts. So I want to build this up. Other people want to build up their business. I do think there is something similar in the way of building up. When I build up my body, how do I really build up? How do I make my body grow? It only works if I find a...
continuous way of exposing my body to situations outside of the comfort zone of what i know elsewise it wouldn't be called growth if i every day just do something towards the body that the body already knows how to do there's nothing growing so the idea of understanding where is the comfort zone of my body
Then on a regular basis, very little, must not be a big jump, but very little, extending this comfort zone until the body naturally takes it as a habit in raising the bar of where your comfort zone actually is. Always a little bit, always a little bit, always a little bit. But this only is possible, I think, by what's called going over your limits. But now comes the thing.
You can go over the limits by really exaggerating and risking to be injured, or you make the idea of going over the limit consciously, aware, carefully, still going over the limit, but in a still controlled way, let's say. You know it's the limit now. But at the same time, at some point, you also realize our bodies, our mind is so intelligent.
Before when we are stretching, at some point you feel like everything is going to rip apart. But I know, and this is why if we would stretch, even though you say, ah, it hurts, I know we can still go more. You think, but I just know. Because your body is so intelligent that before something serious really happens, he tells you way before that, that be careful.
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