When the mind becomes “fixated” or stopped, thinking something over or hyper-focusing on something, it congeals, much like water turns to ice.

When water turns to ice it can no longer go where it wants to go, it’s stuck. Thus, to have an effective mind, do not stop the mind anywhere.

When you focus on your opponent’s attack, the mind fixes on the opponent and you will be defeated.

When you focus on her beauty, the mind congeals and for some reason she can’t explain, she loses attraction for you.

If you focus on the end of the world, your mind fixes on doom and gloom and you miss the beauty of a simple sunset, or watching flowers grow.

Winning race-car drivers have said in interviews “if you focus on the wall, you hit the wall.”

Do not fixate at all, simply keep the mind free and flowing. Then, you will intuit victory like water intuits a way into or around something.

Then, you will evade and strike your opponent a hairbreadth’s moment before his strike lands on you.

Then, when you are attacked by 10 men, your mind will not stop on any one of them and thus be overwhelmed, but instead you will flow one man to one man, destroying each one at a time as if time itself seems to stop.

Then, she will find you fascinating and unlike other men and want to know more about you.

This is the state of Mushin, and this is what is meant by the statement “Be Like Water.” This is the “Effective Mind.”

This is beyond “technique” itself, and goes into the realm of intuition and mastery of life and time itself.

You can discover how to master this state, and use it effectively in your personal life, in my Mastery Membership series.

The mind can easily become fixated on anything at all – even on not being fixated! This is the trap of the mind that almost no one understands. But now that you have read this, you are beginning to understand aren’t you?

Now ask yourself – what have you been “fixated” on? That is what has been slowing you down, not the thing itself, but your fixation on it.

Free yourself up by letting go and floating above it.

Remember, if you fixate on “letting go,” you are still fixated.

Simply do not let the mind stop ANYwhere on ANY thing. Then when you need the mind to be somewhere, it will be Free to be where you need it, when you need it, at FULL POWER rather than partial power because part of the mind will not be fixated elsewhere.

Make sense? This can seem esoteric, but if you truly understand it, you will realize it is the most simple thing in the world, and that having an ineffective mind is the cause of all of your afflictions.

In fact, it is the Master Key to Mental Warfare. Societal manipulators, social programmers, and advertisers use it every day.

In commercials the images are designed to stop your mind and get you to fixate on the stimulus and associate it to the product being advertised.

Now ask yourself this – how can you ecologically and use this to persuade others? I’m sure you can now see that the possibilities are limitless!

When truly Free, the mind becomes effective.

Combined with the specific techniques you’ve studied, and the new ones you’ll learn in the Mastery Membership series, you are on your way!

The levels you only dreamed possible, are now possible.

Yours In Warrior Wisdom,

Thank you for an overwhelming response to part one of this series!

Now, in the last part we dealt with some foundational aspects of becoming a Martial Arts Millionaire. Today we’ll have just a few
more foundational aspects before we go on to the direct-cash-making elements.

I know you’re smart enough to realize that these concepts not only apply in martial arts and making money – but in all areas of life.

Remember, a house is only as strong as its foundation. If you go for the cash without the foundation, you’ll end up broke, or even worse, a rich idiot. As the good book says “a fool and his money will soon part ways”

Which leads us to

Martial Arts Millionaire Secret #3

Never sacrifice Your Integrity

I would say “never sacrifice your integrity for money”, but the fact is you should never sacrifice your integrity for anything at all. Ever.

In the Seven virtues of Bushido, this is known as “gi”, translated as “Rectitude.” Far more than a simple moral lesson on “being good”, it is foundational integrity to it’s core, the first step of all good success.

Martial Arts Millionaire Secret #4

Retain Your Center

Once you’ve removed the influence of negative people and discovered what you like in order to make it fun, while retaining Makoto (purity of spirit) by never sacrificing your integrity, you’ll find your center, your place of balance.

This is a huge key!

Operating from a place of Balance, when you hit a bump you don’t go flying – instead you quickly adjust and retain your stride and progress. Does that make sense?

Balance of mind, body and spirit are necessary for lasting success.

Yesterday we talked about those negative people who knowingly or unknowingly try to throw you off balance. In most cases, they are doing it out of ignorance because they themselves are unbalanced. Everyone is broadcasting who and what they are in everything they do. Essentially, your life is your message. What is your message?

You can always ask yourself this: “what message are they REALLY trying to give me?” Usually it’s not the one they think they are trying to send.

Likewise ask yourself, “what message am I REALLY sending?” It’s most likely not the one you thought you were sending. Yet now that you know this, you can more directly match your actions with your intentions, bringing about far superior manifestations (also known as “Results!”)

So retain your center. Avoid being impelled off-balance by any mental, verbal or even physical attack. When you are
rooted in integrity, you always know where you stand.

You’re also programmed through conditioning to throw yourself off-balance. Yep. But now you’ll begin to notice when “you’re doing it again” and catch it and re-direct it to a more powerful state of being in balance.

Listen up, friend: any goal you want to achieve is like hitting a target. You will hit it more effectively if your position is solid and balanced.

Try this on a punching bag: lean forward with your legs straight and off-balance and strike the bag.

See how that feels.

Then, bend your knees and take a horse-stance in front of the bag and strike it, turning your hips and body with the punch.

See the difference? It’s like night and day, isn’t it?

And that’s how we go about life most of the time, striking out at what we want from a place of imbalance and then wondering why we didn’t get the results. Had enough of that?

Well now you know better and you’ll be much more effective, won’t you? Welcome to the Martial Mastery way of life!

By retaining your center, you consolidate your efforts into maximum effectiveness.

The center of the wheel does the least amount of work, yet causes the greatest amount of accomplishment. Start being the axle and stop being the rubber tire!

Martial Arts Millionaire Secret #5

Energy First, Last and Always!

Energy is love. Energy is money. Energy is awareness. Energy is life itself. When something is dead it has no more…energy!

Let’s call Energy “Chi”, or “life force.” Low or weak Chi is the cause of confusion, dis-ease, misdirection, failure and death.

So whatever faces you, and how you go about life, always ask: “How will this affect my Chi (energy)?”

You’ll notice yourself doing things that are profitable, from the way you conduct yourself in business, to the way you think, even the way you eat and breathe!

Fantastic, isn’t it?

Enough for now. You’ve got plenty here to work with. Take a good solid look at your own life now and ask
yourself if you’re ready.

I’ll share the next steps with you soon!

Makoto,
Scott Bolan

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