Whistlekick Martial Arts Radio Podcast #325: Paradigm Shift
Channel: whistlekick
Date: 2018-09-06

On today’s episode, Jeremy talks about the things that change our beliefs, paradigm shifts.

How many times have you had a change of heart or belief whether for better or for worse? Do you have an open mind about things that could potentially change your whole life or to get you unstuck? On today’s episode, Jeremy talks about the paradigm shifts that makes us constantly improving whether in martial arts or in life. Listen to find out more!

Jeremy Lesniak:

Hello and welcome. This is whistlekickmartialartsradio episode 325. Today, going to talk about paradigm shifts those moments when something kind of blew up in your mind and you start to see the world differently. But first my name is Jeremy Lesniak, I’m your host, I’m the founder whistlekick, we make some great stuff products got some services, we’ve got some free content including this show we do it all for you the traditional martial artists or fan of the traditional martial arts however you term yourself. Thanks for coming by, thanks for giving me your ears.

Alright, now let’s move on let’s talk about this topic that I’m really excited to get into. Here’s the impetus for this, what is the alternative, what is the opposite of not experiencing paradigm shifts? It’s not growing. It’s being stuck in the same old belief patterns you’ve always been in. If a paradigm shift is seeing the world differently, and in a dramatic way not a slow gradual way but kind of all of a sudden seeing things take light, the opposite is being stuck in darkness and if you’re on social media if you would all follow anything in the world at all including martial arts, you see people that are so stuck to their beliefs that are so buried in the sand that they don’t grow they don’t progress they don’t become better than who they’ve ever been and I think that’s so sad. Now here on the show, we had a lot of paradigm shifts. I’ve experienced quite a few of them and some of them have even happened in the midst of a conversation with someone else on the show. One of my favorite things about the show is that it exposes me to a lot of different people with a lot of different beliefs many of whom believe differently from me. You see, I believe that if you can’t keep an open mind about your beliefs, about all of your beliefs and talk through them with others having open intelligent conversation about them to back the pros and cons of the way you see things versus the way someone else who sees things differently like to effectively spar in a mental way, then you don’t have any right to those beliefs. Every one of your beliefs should be tested, should be tried, it should be examined again and again just as we do with a martial arts technique. If you’ve been training for 30 years and you say that the way you punch is the best way and the only way for you and the last time you worked on the mechanics of your punch was as a lower ranked belt well, I’ve got some news for you. There’s room for growth, there’s room for progress because as you grow, as you get better there is more to learn least there should be and there is nuance that you can delve into whether it’s mental, whether it’s physical there is always the opportunity for progress. Now, we live in this really interesting time where people are artificially creating the circumstances where paradigm shifts may occur. It’s not an area of expertise or with the insane area of interest for me but there are podcasts and listen to what folks are talking about plant medicine effectively using things like ayahuasca and such to open their mind. And of course we have the cliché of 60s drug culture and that was really the goal at least as far as I understand it because I wasn’t there and again this isn’t something that I get into personally but the idea that there is more that were looking for more, we’re looking for that growth is something that is really attractive to quite a few of us. And it’s something that ironically, I see happening less and less as people get better and better in the martial arts. Now this is not some kind of judgment of society as a whole because this show is not about society as a whole, I do see some parallels in the way people train in the way the world goes and you know what, that makes sense because we as martial artist still exist in the world. We are still human beings were people and we are just as fallible and just as corruptible or just is influenced maybe that’s a better word as everyone else. We’re people, we’re real were here and were gonna stumble, were going to fall but hopefully were going to grow.