SHAOLIN Masters REVEALS How to Control the MIND and Overcome FEAR
9 Video Views·Feb 15, 2025
In this fascinating interview, Shaolin Master Shi Heng Yi reveals the profound wisdom of his tradition on how to harmonize mind and body. He guides us through the essential practice of breathing, the bridge that connects the physical with the intangible, and the first step towards self-mastery.
🔹 What will you learn in this episode?
Breathing as a bridge between mind and body – Explore how breathing acts as an intermediary between the physical body and the mind, allowing us to delve deeper into both dimensions.
Strengthening the mind through the body – Discover how physical practices, such as holding postures for long periods, strengthen not only the body, but, above all, mental resilience.
Controlling fear and anxiety – Learn how knowing the nature of the mind and developing a relationship with it is key to overcoming fears and reducing anxiety.
Discipline and focus as pillars of mental strength – Discover how cultivating a strong and disciplined mind is essential to achieving our goals and dreams.
Comments are disabled for this video.
Sometimes we say that the body is something very physical. So physical in terms of
you can see it there's nothing like that you need to imagine we all have a body. But now when we say
mind okay but how can I show you my mind right now. The only thing that you see is the body.
But we still talk about yeah but there is this mind. So in our tradition we say yes because the
mind is something that has no form. The body is the representation of form. So we have something
formless and we have a form. And what is happening in between what is connecting the formless with
the form that is the breath. This is why the breath is so powerful because when we are connecting our
mind where the breath is. Yeah well like I told you in the beginning you need to focus the mind in this
area and then you feel the breath fill up here. And when the air enters out or or leaves the body again
you also follow with the mind. So that means we are using the breath like an intermediate
between the mind and the body. And yes you said harmony of body and mind is important. So how do
we achieve it? By first of all finding finding yeah how I call it finding that that one aspect
which is connecting them which is connecting the body and the mind and that is the breath.
So we have the body, we have the mind and what is connecting those two that is the breath. And the
more you understand the breath the more time you spend with the breath the deeper you are able to
penetrate into the mind and also into the body. This is the very nice part about all of this.
It's very interesting how can you learn using your mind
to strengthen your body. Is it just the everyday exercises you do?
Actually it's even maybe the other way around. So it's not just using the mind to strengthen the
body. In the beginning I would even say it's the opposite way. We are using our body to strengthen
the mind because it is the it is the strength, it is the discipline and it is the power of the mind
that starts to make your dreams and your visions and the goals that you have to make them come
true. Yeah because we all have like what we would like to to achieve. Yeah but how do you achieve
things? Yeah how can we focus on it? Yeah well you achieve things by staying committed. This is one
thing and second of all by having a mind which is not easily breakable, which cannot easily break.
And how this can happen? So and this is why when we are using our body for example just
standing in different positions, just staying still 10 minutes, 15 minutes, don't move.
Then what will happen is slowly you start maybe you get tired, the body starts to shake
but what is giving up the first is not the body. Normally it is your mind which starts to give up
because your mind is saying oh this is getting exhausting or how long do I still need to hold it
it's already shaking I think I will stop it. And this is exactly the point where now because your
mind is challenged because your mind right now is like now's the time where you decide
either you really stay disciplined and stay strong or you give up. How can we not give up
and how to stay focused? Yes so staying focused. What is giving up? Yeah what is giving up is the
mind. What for many people is giving up, what for many people is causing problems, what is causing
the anxiety, what is causing that you have fear, what is causing that you're always worried about
what will be and all of these things. What is the problem? The problem is the mind.
The problem is the mind. So how do we solve it? By first of all learning more what is the mind.
This is one very important aspect to learn what is the mind because in the moment
in the moment where your relation to the mind becomes more clear when you start to understand
what the mind actually is, then you slowly start to get access to change all these things
that are troubling you. So ultimately what I want to say is to solve all of these issues
that the humans at the moment have, you have to learn more what is the mind
and therefore there are different methods, there are sometimes different teachings,
different philosophies that try to explain to us what is like the mind so and it still is
something very very personal everybody needs to learn but you need a strong mind.
If you want to change something about your life you need a strong mind.