Posted on 09/07/2009 3:26:44 PM PDT by blueglass
Not long ago at Fort Bragg, N.C., the country's largest military base, seven soldiers sat in a semi-circle, lights dimmed, eyes closed, two fingertips lightly pressed beneath their belly buttons to activate their "core." Electronic music thumped as the soldiers tried to silence their thoughts, the key to Warrior Mind Training, a form of meditation slowly making inroads on military bases across the country. Think military and you think macho, not meditation, but that's about to change now that the Army intends to train its 1.1 million soldiers in the art of mental toughness.
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Pray in your closet as directed by the Disciple Matthew. That’ll pretty much give you an idea of what’s required.
Nothing new. We Rangers always called it “going to our happy place”. Embrace the suck.
They managed to stay on top of everybody for over 1,000 years.
We are not talking Pure Land Buddhism here!
aka FIDO.
Ya know, I doubt if what they are doing fits squarely into the orthodox Christian worldview. Mind you that could simply be my nasty suspicious mind, but there it is.
None of which is anything like electronic thumping music. Techno torture. I wonder if we could do this to ‘insurgents’?
I see your Point.
More like Blotting out thought then becoming serene amide the Chaos.
So instead of Focusing the Mind it is actually more like White Noise and Masking thought.
Not mind control. But they should dispense with the hocus pocus and go with some simple techniques as explored by a Dr. Benson. He wrote a book about it called The Relaxation Response.
I looked this up the other day and it looks like Benson has managed to garbage the thing up over time. The original was simple stuff.
Wow. Can seppuku and ada uchi be far behind?
What they mean by silencing your thoughts is merely silencing what others have called “roof brain activity” for a time. Roof brain activity is all the random thoughts we carry around that keep us from focusing on the moment. Angry thoughts, worrying thoughts...things we can do nothing about at the moment. Draining those thoughts for a time is indeed quite relaxing.
Indeed, Samurai would not meditate to loud music. However, use of meditation by warriors and/or martial arts experts is not "faggy" or "new age" nor would it likely have anything to do with mind control to convince soldiers to be hostile towards civilians.
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I believe somewhere Chuck Norris talked about doing martial arts without the aspects that would be tricky for Christians. And I think there are Christian soldiers who would have a problem with this.
The consequences were, back in the old days, partial deafness.
Japanese musical advances have been made primarily in modern times where the use of antibiotics has minimized this source of damage to Japanese hearing.
So, let's put it this way, if the Samurai could have heard the music they might have used it to aid meditation ~ a little "Free Bird" perhaps?!
I disagree. It worked well enough for Sun Tzu and Miyamoto Musashi in their day, and samurai were indeed the fiercest of warriors, due in large part to their mental toughness and adherence to duty and honor. Nothing wrong with that.
My Drill instructor had a breathing technique we used on the rifle range. You took a deep breathe and let it half out, then held it, got a proper sight picture and squeezed the trigger. He watched as you did this and if you did it wrong he used a simple motivation technique to correct you. We called it a kick in the ass. I t usually worked 100% of the time.
Huh?
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
I too recall those kicks in the ass as being an excellent mind control training technique. If nothing else will get your mind right, that will.
It’s not that kind of thought silencing. It’s about putting aside all distractions, so in battle they’re just thinking about the battle, not wanting to go home, not freaking out because their buddy just got killed, the fight and nothing but the fight. Adrenalin does a lot of that for you, but in the lulls adrenalin fades, Bushido training helps you keep the focus in between rushes.
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