Meditation for Combat Effectiveness?

[tallgeese]

The problem of working towards any kind of mushin state with only traditional meditation techniques or even kata is the lack of a stressor agaisnt which to work. In this case, someone trying to take your head off.

I don't argue that these can be valuable tools, but I think the quicker one moves into the realm of trainin their mindset against a live attacker, the quicker one will acheive goals in this area.

If your moving thru different transitionary stages as joe suggests, then I'd make sure you're actually moving thru them and not becoming consumed by them, which I still see quite often.

Preperation for developing mindset in combat can only truely be achived by simulated or real combat. In cases where, obviously, simulations are used in training, the closer to the real thing the better. This means sparring will have to appear on the list. As will further realistic assut scenarios.