It All Starts With Breathing

BREATHE!

For the next two days I will focus on planning the PATH OF PEN AND SWORD workshop. I’ve made a list of all the practices I think most central, and believe that Breathing is the one.

In martial arts, breathing isn’t just about relaxation and flow, but about the generation of POWER and management of fear.

In writing, it is a powerful doorway to flow, which is both a symptom of and road to “Unconscious Competence” the state you have to reach to create art. You can’t be thinking of technique as an intellectual exercise. You…