Chapter 19 Title 18 Control Issues

When I saw the patient for the first time, he was standing at the end of the corridor facing the window in a somewhat strange posture. Doctor: "That's his special posture. He invented it himself, and it has a name." Me: "Oh? Has a name? What is this pose called?" Doctor: "Joint standing law." Me: "What do you mean?" The doctor smiled: "Just talk to him and he will tell you." After the doctor left, I watched patiently for a while, and when I was hesitant to call him, the patient turned around. Since he was safe and the hallway was quiet in the afternoon, we sat on a bench in the hallway and started talking.

Me: "Hello." He: "I'm sorry, I know you're here, but I want to relax a little longer and keep you waiting." Me: "It's okay, you said relax? Do you mean the standing posture?" He: "Yes! That's what I invented. It's called the joint standing method." Me: "Use your joints...to stand?" He: "Yes, it's very simple. It's like this: First, you stand up and relax, don't think too much, just think about relaxing the muscles of your body. Then slowly find the joints of each joint and relax every bone , placed firmly on the lower bone. Just like building blocks, starting from the ankle, put the bones in place bit by bit. At this time, the muscles must be relaxed, and the breathing should be firm and even. Anxious or tense. In fact, the most important thing is to balance the slack muscles and find that balance point. After standing well, you will find that you will not be tired if you stand like this for a long time, although it looks not very straight, even slightly bent, It’s actually pretty easy. Find the balance and you’ll understand, it’s subtle, and it’s fun.”

Me: "Why do I feel like yoga?" He: "Yoga? Is there a way to stand like this in yoga? I have studied it, and it seems that there is no way." Me: "Is there any benefit to standing like this?" He: "Relax your body and let the blood flow smoothly. Think about it, your body always has various movements, and you don't completely relax when you sleep. After a long time, your body will be more likely to get tired or get sick. Have you ever been in that situation: Sometimes you may not have slept for a long time, but you will feel that you have slept very well and are very energetic when you wake up. Sometimes even though you have slept for a long time, you do not feel relaxed when you wake up. Tired of sleeping?"

Me: "That's the case." He: "Actually, it's not a problem of sleep, but a problem of sleeping posture. It may inadvertently compress a certain nerve or blood vessel, causing that kind of fatigue. With my method, I can completely relax the body and let the bones work on their own. Just put it like that, and the blood vessels and nerves will naturally flow smoothly. Anyway, there is no trouble or charge, you can try it in the future. But there is one thing to pay attention to: try to lean forward as much as possible, and don’t put a lot of force on the heel, because the heel There are too many nerves, and you will feel numb or tired after standing for a long time."

Me: "Interesting, I will try it. Since when did you do this? So you pay attention to things like health care?" He: "I started paying attention a few years ago, but I didn't do it for health preservation, I did it to master and control the body." Me: "You mean...your body...is out of control or something?" He: "It's not out of control, but it's only under relative control at present." Me: "How do you say this?" He: "You are injured. In fact, your body can heal your wound at a high speed, but it doesn't do that. It just makes the wound grow slowly; you can run fast, but your body won't let you run. Go fast, just keep a certain speed; you can have a lot of strength, but your body doesn't allow your muscles to have such a strong explosive force, it just stops at a considerable level..."

Me: "Sorry to interrupt, as far as I know, the self-control of adrenaline is to protect the body, right? Running at high speed will cause damage to the body and bones, and the same goes for excessive muscle power, which will damage the muscles and soft tissue of the joints. The body does not let it do that, it should be a kind of protection, not uncontrollable." He: "You're not quite right, because you overlooked one point." Me: "Which point?" He: "Think about it, the body we evolved was first adapted to living in the wild. Even if it degenerates, it hasn't degenerated to the point where it can't adapt to the wild at all. In other words, many functions of our body are currently put on hold. Yes. I know that high speed and strong explosive power damage the body, but I don’t require the body to reach that level, just go beyond the current state. In fact, this kind of thing is not complicated. Athletes recover their bodies through training Some ability to be left unused, right?"

Me: "Then what do you mean..." He: "I remember a news that in an earthquake, a child was crushed by a car. The child's mother lifted the one-ton car with both hands and let the child climb out. In fact, that is the potential For an adult, lifting a one-ton car is not considered physical overload. An average adult's bones, muscles, and slightly lifting a ton of weight are absolutely fine. It's just...you get the idea gone?" I thought for a moment: "You mean, influenced by emotional factors?" He: "Emotions... To put it another way, it's actually being trapped by one's own emotions."

Me: "Oh, the emotional element." He: "This is what I call—relative control. People are currently in relative control of their bodies, not to mention all of them, not even most of them." From the very beginning of what he said, I vaguely felt that something was wrong, but I never figured out what was wrong. Me: "How do you want to control it? Do you exercise like an athlete?" He: "No. The kind of exercise that athletes do is to increase the basic coefficient of improvement." Me: "What basic coefficient should be increased?" He: "For example, a person currently has a strength of 100 kilograms, but can only control and apply 60%, that is to say, he can only exert 60 kilograms of strength. At present, the training of athletes is to increase the basic coefficient and turn the body into 200 kilograms of strength, but how about the application? It’s still 60%, so the force that can be used is 120, which is more than that of untrained people. Although it seems to have improved a lot, in fact, there is still no improvement in application, and the percentage is still 60 %."

Me: "I see, you mean to increase the percentage of that app, right?" He: "That's right, that's what I said - the control problem." I suddenly felt something flash in my mind. Me: "Well... By the way, I remembered! What you said may make sense, but people can't completely control the body because there is no need to completely control the body. You don't need such a high level of control application to be able to deal with absolute problems. In most cases." He: "That's right. What's the matter?" Me: "Then there's no need to do that."

He smiled: "You sound like a doctor. You're right, but, I want to do that." Me: "Why? You want to say that you have a lot of control?" He: "Hahaha, no, what I want is much more interesting than this." Me: "For example?" He: "Think about it, you can jump a few meters without any effort; you can easily fly up the wall; you can run at a speed of fifty or sixty kilometers per hour; you can kick a wall that is not very thick; Add a little run-up, and you can cross a wide mountain stream at once; you can make wounds heal quickly; you can also strengthen your digestion, absorb more nutrients to provide you with heat; you can even suppress the chemistry of your nervous system Pass it on, and temporarily lose the pain; you can also increase the temperature of the muscles around the eyes, making your vision instantly better, and you don't need to rest, and you don't have to fear..."

In my mind is a scene depicted in a Superman movie or a martial arts novel. He was very excited: "At that time, you are no longer you, you are a super human. And to do all this, you don't need any martial arts cheats or alien blood, you just need to master the ability to control your own body. Because those You were able to do it! Those abilities have always belonged to you! Maybe some of them were lost due to degeneration, but most of them never left!” To be honest, these are bewitching and attractive. Me: "Interesting, how much control do you have over your body now?" He: "It's too short a time for me to learn to control. It's only been more than a year since I stood up with that joint. So it's the starting stage. But I'm usually training." Me: "Oh, so how do you train? What else is there besides that standing method?" He: "Standing on the joints is just a rest. My usual exercise method is to control platelets." Me: "Then how do you control it? Concentrate your mind?" He: "Yes, concentrate your thinking, slowly feel the flow of blood in the body, let the platelets gather in the wound..." Me: "Wound? How can there be such a ready-made wound?" He rolled up his sleeves to show me that there were many shocking cuts on his arms. He: "I made it myself, in order to control the training." I:"……" He: "Actually, it's okay, it's just a training method." Me: "Doesn't it hurt?" He: "It's still in the early stage, and it will be fine in the future. After learning to control, you can watch the wound heal quickly. And at that time, you basically have mastered the control method, and more parts will be controlled in the future. Then I will Showing it to you will leave you dumbfounded at how I control my body!" Seeing him getting better and better, I didn't ask any more questions. After I went back, I looked through some relevant books, and some of the cases were indeed what the patient said. It seems that he also checked a lot of information.I think there is some truth to it in theory.However, I don't agree with completely controlling the body and becoming a super human. A few days later, I mentioned this to a friend. Friend: "This reminds me of the one often mentioned in martial arts novels, you know?" Me: "Well, crazy."