This week our PRINCIPLE of Life Defense is UNIFY. The technique we will be practicing with participants from the Black Sea, to South America, Asia, and the US is defending from an opponent’s rear grab.
If you watch the video you’ll see how defenders grabbed from behind step out, in one swift and powerful motion. They become one, dropping their entire body weight 6-8” essentially UNIFYING themselves with the earth through gravity. Gravity is a real thing, and is inescapable. So is the fact that the largest body on the earth is “the earth.”
Additionally, it’s easy to explain to even the most casual observer how this technique works, and anyone who’s attempted to lift a small child that doesn’t want to be lifted will understand. UNIFICATION to the earth is powerful.
When you think of this basic PRINCIPLE of life it’s self explanatory, UNIFYING forces with someone or something more powerful than yourself allows us to borrow their mass, weight, strength, in essence their energy, to save our life. This is literal.
Last night I attended an AA meeting in support of an adult son who is turning his life around from addiction like others at the meeting. Their stories shared were inspirational and authentic.
If you ever want to experience truth, raw honesty and courage walk in, and sit down in an AA meeting. To me it’s humbling. Every one of these people has experienced life in a way we may never know. During each of my visits I’ve learned of one overarching theme. Connection, or UNIFICATION with a higher power.
Each participant shares their personal story of failure, success and living, attributing their very survival to God, or this higher power. Although Alcoholics Anonymous is not religious, their acute awareness to UNIFICATION with someone or something bigger than themselves has been proven in the battlefield of life.
The success of Alcoholics Anonymous is well documented with millions of lives saved. Fact, there is no program, rehab, therapy, drug or treatment with was much success as AA, and AA recognizes UNIFICATION with a higher power.
In life if all else fails, or even before failure, consider that the PRINCIPLE of UNIFICATION to something greater than yourself works. We, the warriors of self, and Life Defense always refer to what actually works. We are ever searching for a better technique, because better techniques save life.
In my battle life, I will always UNIFY with a greater power. Why? Because it works…
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