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Mental energy is the energy of thought. Thought is material and, like any matter, exudes energy, forming a corresponding field — the mental body.
The main filler of the mental body is, accordingly, mental energy, or, more simply, thoughts. Thoughts play an important role in our lives. They guide our feelings and emotions, with the help of voiced thoughts (words) we communicate with other people.
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In aikido, the term “ki” (“qi”) is very often used, as if with the right direction of energies, a person throws an opponent with one hand. In practice, it becomes clear that this is the correct distribution of the lever load on your joints and the opponent’s joints.
Non-contact combat, based on prana, qi and other names of «internal energy of a person», has shown its inconsistency in independent demonstrations. CCM in boxing with two blows vyu.e.l “non-contact” (the video was on YouTube, the non-contact is some kind of “master” known in these circles).
Ueshiba, the master and founder of aikido, said (like many other masters) that before thinking about learning your «ki», you should perfect your body control.
Bringing the body to perfection is hard, tedious, uninteresting and painful work.
Be it yoga, martial arts, oriental gymnastics (wu-shu), etc. But it is human nature to look for easy ways. Therefore, he gladly believes those who promise that meditation, self-questioning and mumbling can make a demigod out of a person.