Martial Artist Says Spiritual Attacks Are More Common Than Physical Ones
01 Sep 2011 | Category: uncategorized | Author: admin
You're about to pull into the parking lot at work and your stomach starts its typical tensing.
It's preparing you to do battle; it knows that you're in a hostile atmosphere and you need to be protected.
But against what? As in the Pink Panther movies, is your valet going to sneak up on you with a surprise karate chop?
Is your boss going to literally slap you down for having missed bowling night?
Probably not.
Your gut knows something your brain hasn't figured out.
You're under spiritual attack.
By spiritual, I don't mean that a demon is trying to wrest from you your belief in the Almighty.
I mean someone, or perhaps more than one, are sending you destructive messages that are intended to make you feel unwanted, or professionally insecure, or incompetent.
Their weapon might be the half-compliment: "I kinda like those shoes!" said with surprise, as if nothing you wear is nice enough to admire.
Or, they may ask, "Are you sure you want to do that?" when it's clear that you're going to do it, and you believed, at least until that moment, that it was a fine course of action.
You have to fight back against these attacks, to maintain your forward momentum and peace of mind. If you don't, they'll accumulate, and you'll start to believe their implications, that you are inept, that you should doubt yourself, that you should rely more on their tastes, opinions of you, and judgments.
Being a warrior, a true martial artist, requires you maintain your integrity, and it prevents you from buckling under to negative people and their destructive influences.
Perhaps as important, the martial arts train you to recognize an attack when you see or hear one, and to know, that most of them aren't physical, at all.
They're spiritual!
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