eric the livingstone's blog

 Your brain tells you it’s so you know how to fight and defend yourself.  Your pride or ego would like to believe that maybe, just maybe, if you had to you could get into the ring in a mixed martial art UFC match and GET IT ON!  But what does fighting for the sake of fighting prove?  Or answer?  If two equally matched and skilled opponents go at it in the ring or on the street the better man on that day will prevail.  So again, what does that prove?  So what if on that day you gave someone a beating.  What positive energy generating result came out of that?  None, just an inflated sense of self.  The vast majority of grandmasters and fighting champions all have one characteristic in common, humbleness.  This leads me to believe it’s got to be deeper than having an iron body and being able to knock someone out.    Read more »

I have always been interested or better put, intrigued by energy and the role it plays in life.  I think I first became interested from watching Star Wars and hearing “…use the force Luke!”  Ever since then I’ve been trying to grasp what the force is and what it means.  The latter may be more of a philosophical discussion but what the force is has become clearer to me while studying White Tiger Kung Fu and practicing Qigong.  Feeling energy course through my body I’ve experienced randomly over the years, but over the last three and a half years while studying White Tiger I’ve come to learn how to harness, well just a little, the energy inside.  I’ve gotten to the point where I can break a coconut!