I’ve been asked quite a bit about Reiki Healing lately and as it’s world can be full of money making freaks and quite dangerous people I thought I’d talk briefly about it and how it works and what the dangers can be.

Let me begin with the science.  Humans are tribal people and touch, empathy and affection from others is important to us.  When we’re hurt, the first thing we do is to put our hand to the wounded site and maybe rub or massage it.  When a child is hurt, we also do the same and ‘rub it better’, even when emotionally hurt it’s good to receive and give a hug, we’re tactile by nature and that is important to us, pain, both physical and emotional are exacerbated by lack of empathy and touch from others, so we have a natural ‘need’ for it.

Our physical and personal space is clearly delineated in our minds, our close personal space is called ‘peri personal space’ described thus…

Written in 2009 for The Martial Arts Standard

Welcome to Martial Anatomy 101 where we will explore how this wonderful complex mixture of intricate parts we call ‘us’ actually works. Under our skin we have a series of different structures that hold us together and allow us move about the world. For simplicity’s sake we shall limit our exploration to the bits that hold us up and move us around which are our muscles, bones, ligaments, tendons and fascia that also create the means for us to animate ourselves.

A common misconception is that it is our skeletons that allow us to stand upright, but in truth they are only one component of a far greater whole. If you were to take away all the ‘soft’ tissue you would find that you’d be nothing more than a pile of sticks (bones) in a bag with a few squishy parts like your stomach, liver and brain, forming a gooey heap on the floor. Our skeletal system on its own has absolutely no structural integrity as a single entity and our ability to ‘stand’ is only granted by the beautiful way that the soft tissues (muscles, tendons, ligaments and fascia) of the body tie our bones together. Like a suspension bridge, our structure and its integrity are dependent upon the sum of all its parts, therefore any examination of ‘Martial Anatomy’ will require us to look at a seemingly complex number of parts and how they function and interact with each other.

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Taken from the notes of Chris Gunn as a reminder as to what was covered on the Seminar on the 19th May 2013.

Steve had ended up entitling the Seminar ‘The Path To Success’ to help us determine the right path to tread to determine success from failure which as he explained could be a fine line as it will be only as strong as it’s weakest point – and many people fail for the silliest of reasons without realising it.

The Shikon training process relies on three things

Mnemonics – Firstly ‘simple’ does not mean ‘easy’ – an important point.   Use of the logo, iconography in the Dojo, the acronyms, the 8 principles, the 13 dynamics, the synergy between basics, the  form (a mnemonic to remember what to do) into application are all ways to simplify the remembering process.

Allusion – The training and grading syllabus layers the training at each level with each part alluding to all the future training ideas and concepts with a rolling snowball concept as all past training has to raised to incorporate the new ideas of the current grade.

Validation – The training is only validated when the principles can be applied at varying distances, angles and ways against opponents of differing size and skill.