True Weapons

Some people develop nuclear capacity, a mental one. It's a powerful tool that comes from a big vision, and can supply electricity and power systems, appearing like it was created from nothing.

It can also be used like a weapon and create great destruction.

Using it too often or using it to destroy will take away from its power, and will gradually make it less then nuclear, but also those who use that side of it often many times never fully develop it. It is so powerful but also elusive that some people don't realize they have it. Wanting to test it the wrong way to prove it to themselves, will cause great destruction and an adaptation of the surrounding.

Those that harness it for the good know very well what they are developing, they are intentional about it, and use it to fuel and grow themselves and their happy surroundings, and in case of need, use it to protect their loved ones. Though even then, using it as a weapon be the wrong choice. The true magic of it is in creating subtle currents and energies that are powerful yet happy and playful, that just make things go right, and these subtle energies needs to be nurtured again with great consciousness for them to stick around.

Some people wonder when they see a walking nuclear reactor, thinking, how and why would someone develop such a great power if they never intend to use it. But they do use it! Just not all at once.

Creation

With everything we allow to happen through us, we create ourselves, and set patterns in motion, with potentially numerous repetition to happen in the future, for who we are becoming.

Will you take that Ritalin so that you can study (what are you really teaching yourself). Will you have this drink with these people (what emotion are you trying to erase from your experience). Will you have that soda with this less then nutritious food ( why is there this vacuum in your belly). Will you take advantage of this person weakness to make a few bucks (who are you becoming).

Or will you take a walk by the water, read an enlightening book, have a satisfying nutritious meal, help this person out making sure he has been helped as much as possible.

If going from the first group of actions to the second is not easy, it's because you already set things in motion. Truth is it could be easy if you didn't stand in your own way (but on your way instead). You should be asking some questions (and you should have the answers).

Strength and Skill

The right balance between those two can be very elusive, unless it is clearly a strength skill. 
For most other bodily skills, the better you get at it, the less strength it requires.

People that engage in a high strength practice will little or no skill involved, be usually more in the category of fitness people, while people that fully engage in skill work would be ranging from artists to athletes.

But other then categorizing people, strength is generally known as one of the biggest factors that determines improvement in a sport, and adaptability to new patterns.
Strength does help in the first steps of acquiring new skill, before higher efficiency sets in and strength become less of a factor. Which also mean that weaker people could acquire it with more patience. 

Strength and flexibility also play a big part in injury prevention. 
Flexibility in yielding to unexpected impacts and strength for joint stability.

For fitness people, getting into skill work might not be a requirement of their field, but it always broaden their perspective and understanding of their field and would have a big impact on their coordination and quality of performance even in their fitness field, if only due to the fact that the central nerves system gets so much more developed in this type of activity.

For skill people, strength work could offer a bridge to brake through plateaus, but here it is much more individualized and the main purpose should be kept strongly in mind, it is a matter of a fine balance and setting clear goals, or even periodic goals to allow measuring the progress throughout the years.

Are you informed?

Does a domesticated animal understands her wild counterpart from a domestic view point? does she have any type of knowledge at all? off course she does, and a lot. But how applicable is this knowledge to the true ways of this planet. Is the domesticated animal knowledge more valuable then the wild one's? in a fairy tail world it is, but in reality? what is reality?

This is the age of information/misinformation, and we are all domesticated! There is nothing to fear. When starting to understand anything, one of the first steps is understanding you understand nothing.

Function

Little kids are such bouncy spirits, they are not so focused on their bodies, their body is only there to function and express themselves. It doesn't take much focus on its own. Similar to animals.

As we grow older seem we are more and more conscious of our body, specially if it give us hard times. I don't think that is a necessary process, at least not as long as the body keeps its original purpose, as a mean for an end and not the end in and of itself. We should allow ourselves to stay free spirits true to our nature and not bogged down by this material body.

Keep your function strong!

Capoeira

The Capoeira game is a complex body dialog, most people that never done Capoeira will have hard time understanding what they are seeing. And for a complex game like this even Capoeira practitioners have hard time seeing all that is happening.

It is a fight like game, where in the more advanced level every single move or gesture would have a reason, be that getting to a better strategical position, marking an attack, or escaping.

When an attack become real it might slow down the interaction having to wait a player to recover and taking away from density of the game, but that does need to happen sometimes in order to keep the game real.

Let's see if you can find the reasons for each move here, and if you are more advanced, can you find the subtleties.

This is a second blog I published on "Onnit" online Magazine, click on the link below to read:

3 Advanced Bodyweight Workouts for Capoeira Acrobatics