Way of The Peaceful Warrior: Use Meditation To MAX Explosive Force.
When we are about to perform an action in a training session, it is always important to be in the right setting.
By “Setting”, I don’t only mean the physical setting, AKA predispositioning, or environmental setting, AKA your gym buddies yelling at you so hard they almost spit out their pancreas on the floor.
I’m referring to the mental setting — The state of mind, mood or emotion that
is within you in the few seconds before you approach an exercise.
In dynamic training environments, using aggression is a very efficient way of doing this, and that is what I wish to discuss in this article.
I will show you how to access your “Aggression pool” at will, and use it for your own benefit as a mean to increase workload, improve performance, and make your training experience hella more interesting.
Meditation is a great tool to pinpoint, identify, and utilize raw emotion energy.
We can look inside and find the “energetic signature” of a certain emotion, then convert the Emotional energy into Kinetic energy (movement).When we do yoga for example, we will try to be relaxed, breath and focus. When we run a marathon, we will try to be as calm and free as possible.
But unlike the previous two examples, whenever we approach an exercise that requires burst of extreme strength like sprinting, lifting a heavy load or jumping very high, we can tap into a different emotion and create a burst of strength that comes from the spiking of our nervous system.
That emotion is none other than aggression.

That feeling of all the blood in your body is running faster, that your eyes are open wide as if you saw a cheetah sprinting right at you, that feeling like you want to scream, like something in you needs to move RIGHT NOW and fast, the surges of adrenaline and intense currents of energy in your body — that is what I mean by “aggression”.
Let’s get mildly scientific here. Think of the first law of thermodynamics. also known as Law of Conservation of Energy: It states that energy cannot be created or destroyed in an isolated system.
In other words, within your body, that is an isolated system, energy can only be converted to another type of energy.
Energy comes in many forms: Heat, Electrical, chemical, kinetic….
We can easily convert heat energy that we absorb from the food we eat (AKA calories) into kinetic energy (movement energy), or to any other type energy that our body needs like biological or chemical energy.
Your body does that for you every day, even if you don’t know it is doing it. Food = Calories = Energy.
If you keep the first law of thermodynamics in mind, and add a dash of meditation on top, you will look inside yourself and notice that feelings, emotions and sensations also “feel” like something inside of us.
An actual, physical feeling.
Normally, we ignore this feeling, and move on to tagging the sensation that we feel with a word like “fear”, “pleasure” or any of the sorts. Then we try to either keep the feeling if its good, or make it go away if it feels bad.
If you stop naming these emotions “love”, “joy”, “anger”, “sadness”, (You may take a look at my previous article explaining this idea) you can easily notice that your feelings and sensations are firstly rawenergy that runs through your body — just like heat.
The emotion called “Aggression” is no different.

If you are still with me, you are probably now saying to yourself “so what, this guy is actually saying I can convert my emotions and turn them into a movement?”.
Well, that is exactly what I am saying.
And this is one of the fruits of combining meditation into your life as an amatuer or pro athlete; Looking inside, and converting emotion energy to kinetic energy.
If you look at videos of powerlifters or olympic weightlifters getting “spiked up” in competitions, you will see that right before a heavy lift, someone behind these giants is hitting their shoulders, slapping their faces, shouting at them, or in other words — “pumping” the aggression within them.
What this does is pumping this emotion energy in them, building it up more and more, and these athletes, using epic concentration and skill, are holding on and building up this energy so when the crucial lift time is due — they will instantly convert all the stacked up aggression to kinetic energy and make the lift.
I don’t suggest for a second that all powerlifters are actually Master yogis in deguise. The truth unfortunately can’t be more far fetched.
I’m suggesting that they do it intuitively, and do it well.
It is enough to look at Eddie Hall’s 500kg deadlift video to see that the man is in deep, aggressive meditation before the lift, even if he doesn’t call it meditation.
Please, before continuing, if you still have not even a spark of a clue to what I am referring to, Look up “Eddie Hall 500kg on YouTube, and return to the article.

So,now that you have watched this amazing video (hopefully), here are the instructions to how to tap into those aggression pools:
Preferably starting 10–40 seconds before the exercise, start with some breaths (I like to use Ujjayi pranayama breath, but any form will do) and step into the area the exercise is taking place (e.g. takeoff point, squat cage).
Close your eyes, and imagine something that triggers you a bit or that gives u good energies I wouldn’t get angry, just triggered.
(A good trick is using music — some songs can get your aggression meter really pumped up. For me listening to Pantera does the trick really well. At any rate, you can message me for tracks that trigger aggression).
After a few moments of doing this, you will already feel the energy present in your body.
Observe this feeling, feel it with all you are and start using your breath to “pump up” this energy. The actual physical feeling.
You will feel it moving across your body, to your arms and legs, to your neck, in your forehead, in your chest…maintain this focus, remain in this feeling.
You might feel goosebumps in certain areas, that is a great indicator that the aggression is surging and Adrenalin pumping.
When you feel like you are pumped enough, don’t hesitate,Let go of all focus and BOOM! Fell how all this energy you have stored in your body is being transmuted into the movement instantly.
Using this neat trick gives you access to unimaginable stores of energy, and when used correctly and efficiently, the effect on performance is a massive one.
If you ever even so slightly tapped in to your “aggression pool”, you will know what I’m talking about.
Even if you are not a powerlifter, you can learn a great deal about the usage of the emotion called ‘aggression’ to your advantage from these people.
This is also an amazing exercise in terms of moving our energy around.
When I have energy that I feel like I need to move, or let out of my body, instead of screaming into a pillow or starting a fight — I go train. The best workouts are the ones that have a “theme” or a purpose to them.
So, Tip of the week: if you deal with any sport that requires bursts of strength or speed (eg. climbing, running, parkour, any form of light athletics, bodybuilding, powerlifting, football, rugby, basketball, etc.) — In your next session, right before approaching the action itself, take a moment and look inside. Tap into that hidden power, feel the energy moving like a wild animal in a cage, and when the time is right — BOOM! Let it out! See what happens.
