APPLYING DRAGON STRENGTH IN DAILY LIFE
Sifu Mark Blohm
Question
How can we apply Dragon Strength in various ways when considering how we interact with people from a perspective of hierarchy, like when we are leaders of others (teacher, boss, father, mother, uncle, aunt, etc.), when we are in a group being led by one person or several people (student, employee, son, daughter, nephew, niece, etc.), or when we interact with people on the same or similar level (colleague, husband, wife, friend, etc.)?
Sifu Mark Blohm
Answer
As Dragon force from Dragon Strength is powerful and versatile, it can be applied successfully at any level. Lighting speed, which is also derived from Dragon Strength training, enables that the task at whatever the level is accomplished fast. Hence Dragon Strength training enables us to accomplish any task at any level successfully and fast.
When we are at the top level, we apply Dragon force directly and fast. I often use this application successfully in my teaching.
For example, during a course in Switzerland a woman student asked me a question. When I started to answer the question, she asked me another question. When I wanted to answer both questions, she asked me a third question.
So I applied my Dragon force from a position of strength. I told her to keep quiet and let me finish answering her questions first. She started to argue. I applied Dragon force directly and fast. I told her that I was the authority in class, and if she did not like my authority she could leave. She and the whole class was shocked. She kept quiet and I could answer all her questions.
She turned out to be a high court judge. One might think that she would be unhappy with my application of Dragon force and lighting speed. But on the contrary, she was happy. She told Andrew, the organizer, and another instructor who later reported to me, that this was one of the best lessons she ever had.
In one of the courses in Ecuador, a male student was sitting on the floor with both feet pointing at me. I applied Dragon force from the position of strength. I told him that it was rude in chi kung culture to sit with the feet pointing at the teacher. He apologized and sat appropriately.
I later learned that he was one of the leaders in the country’s commerce. Was he unhappy with my application of Dragon force? No, as it was indicated by his subsequent invitation to me to speak to a large organization where he was the president. As a side note, it was while arriving at the venue of this talk that I saw the biggest and most beautiful moon in the sky – without exaggeration, about five feet across in diameter!
We can also apply Dragon force, but in a different way, when we are at a lower level. Here "lower" relates to the situation in question, and may not refer to ones financial or social position.
I sometimes use this application at immigration counters. When an immigration officer took longer than normal time to check my passport, and started to ask me questions, I answered him in a dignified but pleasant manner, while sending a thought to him to just stamp my passport. Obviously he had more questions to ask, but after my first answer, he smiled at me, stamped my passport and wished me to have a nice stay in his country.
Once I applied Dragon force on some police officers in Moscow. A group of us were enjoying ourselves in the Red Square when Julia arrived to fetch us. But we were separated by a massive crowd and more urgently by a barricade of police officers checking everyone passing through. I just sent a thought to the police officers to let us through, and we just literally walked pass them. Julia, who knew the strictness of the Russian police very well, was utterly surprised.
There are two important questions related to these examples. Did I use Dragon force? Isn’t Dragon force some sort of internal force used in sparring? As mentioned earlier, Dragon force is very versatile. The mind is the most important factor in the development of Dragon force. Having developed the internal force aspect of Dragon force, a practitioner’s mind will be very powerful. In the above examples I used the power of my mind.
The second question is more important. Didn’t I abuse my Dragon force? No, I would never do that. Knowing the law of karma, it would be very silly of me to do so.
In the above examples, I applied Dragon force in win-win situations, benefiting myself and our group, the immigration officer and the police officers, and the queue behind us. I had my proper travel documents, and we were honorable, law-abiding people. The immigration office and the police officers would eventually let us through, though it would take much more unnecessary time and effort.
Dragon force can of course be applied when we interact with people on the same or similar level. Your views will be carried through with force but without being demanding.
When I was invited to the Congress for the Unity of Sciences, where only Nobel Prize winners and top practitioners of selected disciplines were invited, I apply my Dragon force during discussion with other delegates. The relaxed and flowing manner I presented my points, forceful but without being offending, must have impressed them.
If you are in a common room and the headmaster comes in wanting to speak to the teachers but the teachers are unaware of the situation and still talking amongst themselves, and nobody except you seems to know what to do. You may, unobtrusively, stand up, without using a microphone but using your Dragon force, speaking in a clear and flowing manner, “Ladies and gentlemen. The headmaster wants to speak to us. Perhaps he wants to give us a pay rise.” Your obvious joke will make everyone relaxed, cheerful and attentive.
A main aim of the Dragon Strength course is to develop Dragon force, which you can apply to enrich every level of your life.
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The questions and answers are reproduced from the thread 10 Questions on Dragon Strength in the Shaolin Wahnam Discussion Forum.
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