CELEBRITY
The Barefoot Doctor’s School for Warriors
The Barefoot Doctor recently launched his School for Warriors. He says, “Unless
you’re incredibly temporarily powerful, you can’t change the course of the economic
flow externally. It’s traditional to work on yourself as your primary focus every day.
The more you train, meditate and exercise, the less concerned you get with
the ups and downs of fortune. You take things as challenge to your metal
as a Warrior.
“The School for Warriors teaches you to train harder, to situate
yourself properly within your body, meditate, breath properly, relax
your body, situate your mind properly within your skull, increase
your mental focus and confidence. You learn to trust yourself
more as you go into battle everyday.”
The way he explains it, it sounds like the NLP choice
of being at cause rather than effect. Stephen says,
“The warrior learns how to master battle with
oneself. There’s balance and disharmony and
the warrior is always working on mastering
that swing. To remain centred at all times.
It’s about personal ethics, being decent,
respectful, generous and helpful to
other people. Warriors are willing to
take command rather than seeing
themselves as a victim: ‘OK, I’m
here on the planet with all my
brothers and sisters rather
The Barefoot Doctor’s
than just looking out for
prescription for
myself’. There’s a sense of
surviving the current
responsibility to the rest of
economic situation
human race.”
Stephen says, “The UK economy has
been running on air and the two most
recent booms have been sustained
artificially beyond their natural spans.
Since the last recession, the world
economy has become fully globalised so no
one territory is untouched. No market exists
to take up the slack. On the plus side, because
it’s globalised, the collective effort to reignite the
cashflow will eventually have an equivalent impact
on the upturn.
“Personally, I trained myself out of borrowing two recessions
back so am not overly exposed. Being peripatetic in my sphere
of action, I have my bets more spread. Though concerned about
how deeply this contraction will bite in terms of potential for
mass unemployment and the knock-on domino effects on a
and its driving force (the Tao/the spirit/the ineffable).
global level, I am, so far, fairly optimistic and confident we’ll
This produces magical results regardless of external
pull out of it and into a new more sensible, sustainable way
circumstances. Be open to connecting with others on
of operating.
a more profound and meaningful level. Use it as an
opportunity to learn about love. Recessions reduce vanity
“In many ways, I feel it’s nature’s method of getting us to stop
levels considerably and so offer a perfect opportunity
consuming so much. Her way, perhaps, of saving us from
to explore what really counts - sharing the love.
immanent extinction by preserving the rapidly dwindling vital
resources a while longer, thus affording us the chance to develop
”Instead of investing the majority of energy and cash in external
the requisite alternative technologies and energy sources.
diversions, invest in self-development. Learn a martial art, make
your body and mind strong, develop the capacity for holding
“Reduce all overheads to the minimum. Eschew emotional
your nerve and generally train yourself into a superhuman state.
spending and only allow yourself one small treat a week. Be
And keep your eyes open for opportunities. Whenever there is
willing to let go of everything and always trust that whatever’s
great movement, whether towards boom or bust, there are more
happening is meant to be and will lead to something better if you
opportunities. It’s only when things are relatively settled that the
trust it. Use it as an opportunity for living a totally different life.
opportunities diminish. Remain positive, optimistic and cheerful in
“Attune more to your relationship with the underlying mystery other words, rather than succumbing to recession-malaise.”
rapport - Summer 2009
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