Black belt healing: A martial artist's guide to pain management and injury recovery

125 Pages·2010·1.28 MB·English

by  David Nelson

Published by Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd., with
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Copyright © 2010 by David W. Nelson All rights reserved. No part of this
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nelson, David, 1955-Black
belt healing : harnessing the power of the mind / by David Nelson ; with a
foreword by Stacey Shook.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-8048-4124-5 (pbk.)
1. Mental healing. 2. Mind and body. 3. Martial arts--Psychological aspects. I.
Title.
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
Part One
CHAPTER 1: The Paradox of Pain
CHAPTER 2: The Saimon-jutsu Solution
CHAPTER 3: What About Mary?
CHAPTER 4: Kokoro Kobe Dojo
CHAPTER 5: The Genkan
CHAPTER 6: Enter the Gate
CHAPTER 7: Your Mind’s Dojo
CHAPTER 8: Pure Raw Potential
CHAPTER 9: Please Don’t Feed the Bears!
CHAPTER 10: Barebones Zen
Part Two
CHAPTER 11: Anatomy of Hypnosis
CHAPTER 12: Getting Ready
CHAPTER 13: Bow In
CHAPTER 14: Mokuso
CHAPTER 15: Kengeki
CHAPTER 16: Bow Out
CHAPTER 17: The Debriefing
Part Three
CHAPTER 18: Mokuroku
CHAPTER 19: Weight Loss
CHAPTER 20: The Way Home
Appendix
A: Keeping it Legal
B: The Truth about Certification
C: Resources and Recommended Reading
Acknowledgements
I wish to express my sincere appreciation to my wife, Jean, for her patience
while I lived with a computer on my lap. I would also like to acknowledge and
express appreciation to my daughter, Hannah, for the wonderful illustrations
contained in this book. Also to:

Bob and Paula Nelson for their early editing of the book.
Master Stacey Shook for writing the foreword.
Jen and Dan Lutsey for their encouraging words.
Sandra Korinchak and Bud Sperry of Tuttle Publishing for their wonderful
editing.
Shihan Paul Dean and Reverend Nonin Chowaney for their teachings and
unending patience.
Foreword
One of the definitions of journey is travel or passage from one place to another
—also referred to as a trip. If we give the above definition some thought, we
have already embarked on a journey of fourteen words. I love journeys. Our
bodies may at times remain static, but our mind has “left the building.” Even the
most mundane of trips has imbedded within it the possibility of adventure. We
miss many adventures because we fail to look through the “possibilities
window.” We then can experience the old saying, “I was at the train station when
my ship came in.” Learning to notice and realize that there are no ordinary
moments sets the stage for learning new things.
Black Belt Healing is one of those special journeys that, given your attention,
will bring the adventure into view. The “possibilities window” is accessible and
we are able to start and see how and learn why the Art of Mind-Swords works
towards healing: first with necessary guidance and later quite independently. Dr.
David Nelson has successfully brought to life the Art of Mind-Swords through
his knowledge, creativity, use of language, and visualization! The techniques and
strategies are presented in an easy to follow, systematic process that allows the
practitioner to utilize the material contained in this book.
As a long-time martial artist and Ph.D. psychotherapist, I have worked to bring
psychology and martial arts together. Th is has not always been an easy task due
to the differences in Eastern and Western philosophies of energy flow and power
of thought. The dojo or training place is an ideal platform for the meeting of
these somewhat divergent ways of thinking about curing and healing. The well-
defined definitions of these terms in Black Belt Healing go a long way to help
dissipate the myths that surround hypnosis as well as other healing strategies
involving the use of thought energy. Dr. Nelson has done quite well at bringing
demystification, simplification, and utilization of the subject to an open, well-lit
area.
This book does much more than present a method of pain management: this
book creates an excellent new paradigm for living that includes a wide variety of
guided and self-improvement strategies. A well-trained martial art instructor is in
an excellent position to help students as well as non-students deal with some
pain or achieve other goals that we have set before ourselves. Having said this, I
would like to have you enjoy this particular journey as well as the many
adventures that lie ahead as you move through Black Belt Healing.
Grandmaster Stacey A. Shook, PhD
Founder of Fu Chen Kung Fu