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In my language, courage is defined as when we overcome fear and act in a risky situation. No fear, no courage.

@TaomeowI can only really talk from my own perspective, so I refrain from discussing stupidity from a female perspective. I also avoid discussing from the perspective of Wisdom @dwai since that perspective isn't shared by that many.

Young males do stupid things for many reasons. In the days, my favourite martial arts teacher brought in Marc "Animal" McYoung to enhance our skill in doing nasty. He talked a lot about "Male Pride Syndrome", where young males do stupid things basically to avoid shame, especially if young females are present. So, we might transcend fear of death when the imminent threat of shame is more real than the possibility of being killed. Or, the prefrontal cortex is poorly developed in young males, thus reason doesn't interfer with impulse. Or something, just rambling severely here because I felt that the thread turned so blood existential philosophic that it missed that many of us do stupid things for stupid reasons, and the true consequences might be beyond our grasping in that moment of previous stupidity. Or was that just me, between the ages of 14 to 30?

Article, free download via Google Scholar, I must just check the reference. I got it at my job, going there tomorrow.

Activation of the Dai Mai? I have a standing posture that sets up a spin like that, if your drawing is correct you are doing half the seated version in the method I practice, we just use another mudra. The actual frequencies the body tend to create are chartered in a more scientific way in (forgot the title), and it is plausible that when one can remove some of the noice, the core frequencies can be strengthened.

Sun Tzu doesn't say that courage is the absence of fear. You did. Not does he say that someone who feels fear cowers. (At least not in that section.)

Sun Tzu said that the stupid soldier had no fear of death, does that imply courage =stupidity 😁?

Yes, facing a sword-wielding aggressive maniac while your intention was to take an evening stroll would take some courage.

On the other hand, a person that does "quick and dirty" decisions (on the other side of the spectrum from overthinking) is at risk of repeating behaviours that aren't adequate in the current situation.

If a person is in range for a strike, it is either an attack or a date. (Social distancing joke)

Unfortunately, there still seems to be teachers who advertise the martial superiority of these arts, at least in China. Wasn't that the back story to that chinese MMA-practitioner fighting taiji masters? So he followed the time-honoured tradition within martial arts circles and challenged these publicly known persons with fighting ability. And, according to a text on Bullshido, he lost his social points as a result of it, mainly because the image of the martial efficacy of these arts are subject to politics.

At least for people that have a lot of sensory input during the day. But if one have less, that nap can interfer with sleep architecture and the optimal nightly regenerative functions in the brain. For example, people with depressive symptoms should avoid taking naps, because the long time consequenses are negative.

Because it is a difficult subject! Basically, it is a reaction to threat. Usually, a threat you cannot escape from, and where the only solution is to inhibit all signs of struggle. Many who develop this have had prolonged abuse during childhood, too often from someone close or in a situation where you expect to be "safe". Seen from how the brain reacts, there is increased activity (a functional network) in a bunch of brain centers which basically over-regulate emotions and blocks signals from the body. Some of these centers are also implied in religious experiences, so you can see why it overlaps with spirituality. And yes, drugs can affect this, especially if someone has an emotional baggage and/or other problems affecting the brain systems involved in emotional regulation. As to discussing the "why" in a specific persons situation, digging into that is not really a good idea in a forum, because some of those "why" needs a huge amount of TLC to heal. But in order to heal, it is usually adviced to do basic work first, to lay the foundation for a resolution. If you are lucky, maybe there is just the one method that will fix it. For most, it is the entire package.

For me, trying to learn through principles and by watching/"stealing" from my seniors didn't work at all. I was seriously stuck under the glass ceiling for years. So, I found another teacher that taught me many of those details which probably fall into what you would define as complex. Well, pieces of a puzzle makes a picture, suddenly I got the point, and could continue to develop under my main teacher. Thus said, you can see that I place more value of the gradual and complex way of learning, and my interpretation of what you have described in this thread would have been too big a jump for me to handle.

Noooooooooooo

Keep it coming...

Yes, no, and maybe. Daoist work isn't just on the physical and energetic layers, there are also a huge amount of awareness practices. Being aware of how one subtly reacts, and training the mind to react differently, is part of healing old emotional issues. Psychological translates to physical really fast (mainly through the innate immune system and neuro-inflammation or through the threat response systems), and many of the methods implied in some traditional meditation traditions are mirrored in modern psychotherapeutic methods.

Even worse if we were to get up at sunrise during summer 😁 (Du måste vara i närheten av mina breddgrader om vi ligger så nära i tid.)

Hi! There is an easy-to-do program developed in Japan that has been evaluated with good results. They even have a version for people with so much fatigue they are bed ridden. It's free, published and available through Google Scholar. PM me and I will link it to you.

Today the sun rose at 08.48 am. If I retired early and stayed in bed until that time, I'm fairly sure my body would feel like crap. So at least that part isn't so useful when living at an end part of this spinning ball we call home.

And does then teachers use expedient means to help the students, going through method by method until the student can grasp the principle?

I think @Scholar get the point about martial arts, and masters claiming fighting ability.

Ahhh. They all were from diluted lineages without the true transmission.

In the context of internal kung fu and other similar arts, why does students stay so long with teachers, often learning layer by layer, if these arts are simple? Why not just teach the principles and then let the students mature in their practice on their own?

It's all about from which perspective one look at things, isn't it?