Hate.
Hate is one of the strongest emotions of mankind.
This podcast gives you the insight of how we handle hate from a point of view of martial arts.
When you understand the way a fighter can handle hate as a destructive emotion to become a positive power,
You will understand how you can implement it in your own life or daily practice.
History shows the proof of many people who became very powerful and lead nations into battle,
Wins and defeats just because of the hate of a person or a group.
Dictators are often lead by this strong emotion.
To most people hate is a negative emotion that is senseless and we must be freed of it.
But is it true?
Hate is not only a mental emotion,
It has a direct physical consequence.
Our bodies respond to hate as much as it does to love.
Our chemical structure changes the moment we are touched by hate.
Some people get thick of hate and others show a boundless aggression and energy.
Hate is felt by people in your surroundings.
It reflects in your personality.
It drives people away but it also attracts others.
People who are driven by hate will attract others who have the same hate and they bundle powers to this emotion for a short period of time.
When we search history we find that more people are bounded by hate than they are bounded by love.
But is hate a useful emotion for us?
Can we use it to become mentally and physically stronger and to reach our goals in life?
When we think this way we have to realize that it is possible to control positive energy emotions but it is hard or even impossible to completely control the negative emotions.
This makes the use of negative energy insecure for our purposes.
You can consider them volcanoes.
They burst out when they feel like it and we have no control over them.
The powers of hate are uncontrollable.
We consider this energy as purely negative.
Hate has no borders.
Love does.
Love has real clear borders.
We know that what is considered good and not good in love.
We know the different levels of love by nature.
Both emotions can grow.
A person in love grows a better personality.
A person who grows hate shivers the personality until insanity will set in.
So it is purely a downgrading emotion.
Hate clouds the brain while love sets to expressions.
To most people hate and revenge are alike but that is absolutely not the case.
It is possible to take revenge without any form of hate.
Revenge is retaliation for former actions.
So it's an action as a re-action.
A person who takes revenge from a feeling that unjust has happened to him or the people he represents and does not need to hate the target of revenge.
It is even possible that a person who takes revenge loves the victim of revenge very much.
Revenge must be separated in levels of the different emotion involvements.
Can we give hate a place in our training in martial arts?
That's a question that is often asked to me.
I think that hate is a good engine to start with martial arts.
I will give the person a lot of drive to learn but at a certain level that person will be confronted with something very contradictive.
Hate and true fighting spirit cannot be united.
A true fighter can never be driven by negative emotions such as hate.
During training and workout passion is needed to perform the heavy training sessions.
Passion is conflicting with hate as it is opposite in the emotional spectrum.
Training cuts down the sharp edges of hate and slowly cuts half of it out.
Hate may change into a feeling to take revenge but for a reason and not pure as an emotion.
But when it takes a long time even revenge is an emotion that will lose its power.
Training in real martial arts is physically and mentally a challenge.
Your fitness depends on your efforts,
Your awareness,
On the mental availability,
Your endurance as your character and your attitude.
During training all facets of emotions do pass by in a never-ending mix like a vast river.
Hate blinds a person and it makes it impossible to grow in a fight as you want a result too fast.
Hate makes speed coming by.
During fighting you need to have objective information about what is going on inside you and inside your opponent.
Emotionally outbursts are dangerous because of the loss of control over the situation.
For people who never had a real fight before I would like to tell you that something incredible,
Interesting occurs during a fight.
When the fight is very harsh and two opponents battle with everything they have they come batting at the same level in a near life to death situation beating each other so hard that the environment is shivering in fear.
These fighters become respectful toward each other more and more during the battle from round to round they learn to appreciate each other's efforts,
Each other's superiority.
You learn,
You start to appreciate the force of the opponent.
The longer such battles takes the higher the appreciation and the respect.
This is very strange emotional and psychological experience which can hardly be understood by people who have never been in a real fight.
There is a saying which I would like to share with you.
Warriors never hate.
They all die in honor.
Meaning that whatever side you represent if you are a true warrior you will battle till you die for the honor and not for the emotion.
Love and hate comes from the same thoughts and intensity in many ways and often they can shift places.
There is a constant interaction between them but it is possible to make a permanent switch from one extreme to the other leading to obsessive behavior.
Someone who goes from love to hate will experience a real cold feeling in their body while a person moving from hate to love will experience a warm gentle feeling in their body.
In Chinese traditional medicine and Ayurveda we meet these opposing energy levels as for instance the symbols yin and yang.
It is important we experience the intensity of hate by ourself.
The negative energy of the emotion is able to expose a lot of our own motives in life and our real need to be loved and to love.
If you never did hate a person or other things intensely it is not easy to love deeply.
But hate cannot be forced.
It is impossible to hate spontaneously or on command.
This again is the same like love.
Both are unannounced often without a clear reason or cause.
The intensity of the emotion is affected by factors beyond your control.
To reach a higher spiritual level in life you should explore love and hate to understand your true drivers in this life.
Which emotion does motivate you the most as there is a sliding scale of intensity between the two with so many different levels and variations that like the colors of the rainbow.
I advise you to listen a few times to this podcast as there are many hidden secrets in love and hate and in the balance of it.
And listen why you allow yourself to take in to create a maximum result of what you are listening to.
Give yourself a chance.
Open up.
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