When water turns to ice it can no longer go where it wants to go, it's stuck. Thus, to have an effective mind, do not stop the mind anywhere.

When you focus on your opponent's attack, the mind fixes on the opponent and you will be defeated.

When you focus on her beauty, the mind congeals and for some reason she can't explain, she loses attraction for you.

If you focus on the end of the world, your mind fixes on doom and gloom and you miss the beauty of a simple sunset, or watching flowers grow.

Winning race-car drivers have said in interviews "if you focus on the wall, you hit the wall."

Do not fixate at all, simply keep the mind free and flowing. Then, you will intuit victory like water intuits a way into or around something.

Then, you will evade and strike your opponent a hairbreadth's moment before his strike lands on you.

Then, when you are attacked by 10 men, your mind will not stop on any one of them and thus be overwhelmed, but instead you will flow one man to one man, destroying each one at a time as if time itself seems to stop.

Then, she will find you fascinating and unlike other men and want to know more about you.

This is the state of Mushin, and this is what is meant by the statement "Be Like Water." This is the "Effective Mind."

This is beyond "technique" itself, and goes into the realm of intuition and mastery of life and time itself.

To master this state, and use it effectively in your personal life, you need the Martial Mastery course.

The mind can easily become fixated on anything at all - even on not being fixated! This is the trap of the mind that almost no one understands. But now that you have read this, you are beginning to understand aren't you?

Now ask yourself - what have you been "fixated" on? That is what has been slowing you down, not the thing itself, but your fixation on it.

Free yourself up by letting go and floating above it.

Remember, if you fixate on "letting go," you are still fixated.

Simply do not let the mind stop ANYwhere on ANY thing. Then when you need the mind to be somewhere, it will be Free to be where you need it, when you need it, at FULL POWER rather than partial power because part of the mind will not be fixated elsewhere.

Make sense? This can seem esoteric, but if you truly understand it, you will realize it is the most simple thing in the world, and that having an ineffective mind is the cause of all of your afflictions.

In fact, it is the Master Key to Mental Warfare. Societal manipulators, social programmers, mind-controllers and agitators, even advertisers use it every day.

In commercials the images are designed to stop your mind and get you to fixate on the stimulus and associate it to the product being advertised. Get it yet?

Now ask yourself this - how can you ecologically use this to persuade others? I'm sure you can now see that the possibilities are limitless!

When truly Free, the mind becomes effective.

Combined with the specific techniques you've studied, and the new ones you'll learn in Martial Mastery, you are on your way!

The levels you only dreamed possible, are now possible and they are right here.

Yours In Warrior Wisdom,