1. How jaw and neck tension relate to power and performance

I discovered the relationship between "smiling" and a non clinched jaw, neck and back pain therapy and training of athletes a number of years ago while working with an extremely tense and locked up client. I had been working with the physically and emotionally rigid . . .[read article]

2.How mental-emotional state strenghtens or weakens

"Nothing but a smiling old man moving unconcernedly amidst intense, charging GIs, seemingly unaware that he existed-indication that Ueshiba was, in effect, moving in a different time continuum."

This is how Jay Gluck, author of Zen Combat documented effortless joy merging with effortless movement of Aikido Founder Morihei Ueshiba. At the time Gluck was using high speed film in an attempt to document the master's secret of neutralizing the attack of larger, stronger, multiple attackers. His report hints at a particular nervous system state linked to a way of thinking, approach to life and the secret of attaining mastery. [read more]