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The Practical Power of

Internal Exercise


To assist you in accomplishing your goals, we have developed
a comprehensive Toolkit and Rosetta Stone
written in a Language of Movement.

Our practices are simple, practical, easy-to-use exercises
that integrate thought, feeling, and movement. 

They are designed to be applied in the midst of daily life
and will rapidly develop the energies, perceptions, and inner skills
necessary to accomplish your goals.


About our Technology

Why it works so well


what people say
Strategy

ABOUT OUR TECHNOLOGY

Our strategy focuses on factors
with powerful impact and low visibility.  

Sometimes, what has low visibility
is right in front of us all the time,
but we have been trained to ignore it.

This is why the non-verbal dimension and the movement factor
are such powerful leverage points in the quest for optimal results.

“A movement can make an impression
on the person who sees it or on the one who makes it,
an effect which can automatically work
to form a destiny in their lives.”

The Sufi Message of Inayat Khan


The key to the success of our technology is our comprehensive system of
Internal Exercises, Movement Simulations, and Nano-Practices
based on The Five Rings Matrix.



Internal Exercise

According to the latest research, exercise is valuable for a great many goals, conditions, and disorders, psychological, physical, spiritual, and material.
 
This begs the question, what kinds of exercise are they talking about?   According to the martial arts, there are two basic types of exercise: external and internal.  

The key distinction is not the exercise itself, but rather, The How Factor.  That is, how you do what you do.  In other words, the same activity performed internally or externally will achieve different results. 
 
  • External Exercise has a "make it happen" attitude.  It is about training your body, heart, or your mind.   It emphasizes the power of the will as it focuses your intention, motivation, and strength.
  • Internal Exercise has a "set the stage for it to happen" attitude.  It is about training-with your body, heart, and mind.  It emphasizes the power of working as a whole, coordinating intuition, intention, feeling, thought, and muscle. 

From this point of view, the types of exercise we are most used to are external.   This means that so much more is possible for us than we can even imagine.
 
With Internal Exercises you can make rapid and real shifts in attitude, mood, reactions to pressure and stress, and style.   When you add Internal Exercise to what you know in words, you will be amazed at how quickly you can attain your goals.


Movement Simulation
 

A simulation is an imitation of a real thing, state of affairs, or process.  Simulations are used in many contexts, including the modeling of natural systems or human systems in order to gain insight into their functioning.  Simulations can be used to show the eventual real effects of alternative conditions and courses of action.

With a background that includes mathematical modeling and computer programing as well as the martial arts and Chinese medicine, Dr. Stuart Heller created a new movement-based language for designing situations that can be used to both reveal and upgrade our habits of action.

Our Five Rings Movement Simulations:
  • Promote non-judgmental, testable, and action-oriented observations that reveal patterns.
  • Encourage constructive assessments that show us what to do.
  • Open the doors to the control center of our habits, making it much easier to change.
  • Offer easy-to-use techniques that can be applied in the midst of daily life.

Nano-Practice
 
 
The Five Rings Nano-Practices are easy-to-use exercises you can do in the midst of your daily life to shift your mindset, presence, or mood and that are invisible to everyone else. What other people notice is the positive change in you and how you handle things.  
  
A nano-practice can be based on a thought, a feeling, a posture, a way of moving, a way of breathing, a way of paying attention, or a way of gesturing.  They are designed with the same technology used to build our Internal Exercises and Movement Simulations.
 
We use nano-practices because the most important time to practice is in real life, when you need it.
 
 
The Five Rings Matrix

The Five Rings Matrix is the fruit of a thirty-year East/West multidisciplinary project to develop a non-verbal language that was both visual and kinesthetic.   It was designed to supplement our current verbal models and methods by offering a missing piece to the puzzle of change.  To learn more ...


5R Matrix


Why
WHY OUR TECHNOLOGY WORKS SO WELL



xxxxx 

Our usual attempts to gather the power to change run smack into,
what can be called, The Humpty Dumpty Dilemma.

All the king's horses and all the king's men
could not put Humpty together again.

Once the integrity of the human experience is divided,
it CANNOT be put back together again.

What if, however, no matter how many falls you take,
no matter how much turmoil surrounds you,
  no matter what happens to you, and
no matter what you think,

your fundamental integrity cannot be sundered.

xxxxx

Bottom-Line

You are a Thinking, Feeling, Moving Being.


thought - feeling - moving


                  

It is impossible to...

Feel without Thinking.

Think without Feeling.

Move without Feeling and Thinking.

                


Bottom-Line

You Act and Respond.

rings as words


                      

Everything you do,

every thought, every feeling, every movement

is a unique combination of

these fundamental ways of meeting life.


                   


According to the classics on cultivating excellence,

how we deal with the human - animal interface

shapes our abilities to relate to the physical world,
other people, ourselves, and the spiritual dimension.


human - animal



All of our East/West research tells us
that the key to working successfully with these factors is
The Language of Movement.



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