The Art Of Love

Jiddu Krishnamurti once said, ~Martial arts is like a mirror in which you look at yourself before you wash your face in the morning. You see yourself simply the way you are.~ In some aspect, love is like martial arts as both share the one common denominator that keeps you getting back up, as well as, reaching for more from within yourself when you suffer times of defeat and that is heart. For it’s your heart that reflects/mirrors who you truly are as you stand in the ring of life across so called opponents who stand ready to see if you are prepared to handle the punishment he or she may inflict on your heart. Essentially, to face the opponent known as love you must be prepared in three key ways: mentally, physically, and spiritually.

Without a doubt, you have to be in the right mindset to take on something that is considered to be one of the most or THE most toughest opponent one will ever face in life. Why do I say that? Love can seemingly be an easy thing to prepare for as you certainly see people around you go toe to toe with it. However, love is never easy because what you see is totally different than what you're going to actually experience, which is something that will most definitely mess with your mind. It would be safe to say that in the metaphorical sense love can mentally psyche you out as it plays mind games by showing those that stood before you who were defeated and left picking up the pieces of one's fearful, frustrated, fragile, doubt-filled mind.

Essentially, you can't just be mentally strong as you also have to be physically strong as well to take on something that can/will overpower you to where you're literally knocked to the ground. A person can have all the muscles in the world, but unfortunately the massive amount of strength that love has can make any man or woman absolutely weak to where one is brought to their knees. It's a sad situation indeed when the crafty veteran known as love can get the upper hand to the point where you end up defending yourself by covering up/holding back. For the most part, you simply have to rely on the strength within your heart to be able to defend/counter moves that can get the better of you if you're not quick enough to se it.

Let me ask you this question, when it comes to potential and/or a significant relationship, are you spiritually centered within your heart? Oftentimes, when facing an opponent such as love, the mental and physical strength just aren't enough because of how overwhelming it can all be. For the feeling and emotions can/will keep the chi within your heart totally off balance to where either anger, fear, frustration, hate, doubt, or all of the above take over, which you don't want ever to have happen. It's at that point you look to spiritual strength to bring about peace within your heart so that your mind and body can be in perfect harmony. If that's not the case, you're going to face love mentally unfocused and physically unprepared, so to speak.

Martial arts legend Bruce Lee said, ~Emotions can be the enemy, if you give into the emotion. You must be at one with your emotions because the body will always follow the mind.~ In retrospect, we all will stand or are already standing face to face against the biggest martial arts challenge in your life that judges whether or not you are truly ready for love. Ultimately, you have to keep your emotions in check or everything you've tried to prepare for falls apart and remember this, you alone can't judge love because love has the ability to judge you. In the end, if you can be mentally, physically, and spiritually prepared to face love without fear, doubt, anger, frustration, and/or hate filled within your heart then my friend you've mastered the art of love.