Balance of Instinct and Intelect

[bushido_man96]

Sometimes, I think being angry can help. It can be a very driving force.

[baronbvp]

The trick is to make the fear work for you, instead of against you. With adrenaline comes clarity, if you let it. Harness the fear in your gut where your chi lives. Use it to clear the mind and power the body.

I also believe in not staying totally in the mind, but using instinct as a sensor to perceive the situation beyond rational analysis. You may find a solution that is not readily apparent.

Then the trick is to control the trigger that takes you from the ready being to the active being. That infinitesimal moment when you have decided to fight and you start your first motion. Stepping over that line is creepy but required.

[zps00]

I return after more than a year. I was self conscious about my writing and never checked back. A fresh adult and with a bit more experience under my belt, (which is still white by the way,) I'm feeling much more confident. Anyway, in reply to a few of you, though I doubt you'll receive it, the key word is balance. We're treading on difficult ground for the modern English language. We need new terms, I think. There is a difference between fear and exhilaration, a difference between instinct and conditioning, and a difference between raging juggernaut and a fighter that harnesses his destructive urges and puts them to good use. My intention was to help you along the path to balance, not to take you to it. It can not be rationalized or measured because, frankly, it doesn't exist. The only mathematical balance that exists in the universe is the universe itself. You have to find balance through yourself, through faith. Not the blind faith fools cling to in vain attempts to find comfort, mind you. True faith. The feeling or "instinct" of something being true without having several scientific experiments being done to prove it so. Let it guide you and when you reach the end of your path, if you don't panic and turn away, you'll realize it is but the beginning all over again.

[bushido_man96]

I believe that there is a difference between instinct and conditioning. However, I also believe that through constant conditioning, you can make something very close to instinctual. I know that not all will agree with me here, and that is ok. I think it is related to time in, if that makes sense.