Calm Before the Storm

Arashi no mae no shizukesa [嵐の前の静けさ]

Calm is relaxed and relaxed is smooth and smooth is fast. Calmness is a concept, a philosophy, taught for dealing with stresses and stressful things including dealing with conflict and violence.

Slow is smooth, smooth is fast as a concept is awesome but few teach outright that to be fast deals with being relaxed and being relaxed means being calm. Calm in mind means calm in body means being relaxed meaning being fast and energy efficient.

It helps to know and understand that once the mind goes on a monkey dance, calm will disappear and this means tension meaning loss of efficiency and fast energy loss or depletion and loss of any advantages given by calm relaxation.

So, when you lose your calmness … 🌀