Sepano Zadeh | The ART of the Fight: Mental Tools For Self Tuning
Sepano Zadeh is a martial artist and coach who specializes in mental training techniques that improve physical performance results. Join us to hear about how to aim for your goal, resonate in your flow, and fine tune your process to embody your unlimited nature, with a warrior's mindset.
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Core themes
A Mental Game Learned the Hard Way
Sepano Zadeh traces his path to age fourteen or so, when he took up subliminal messaging and worked with the subconscious mind, pointing to Bruce Lipton's biology of belief and epigenetics as the heart of it. He recalls being strong on the tennis court but unable to carry that into matches, which he reads as something lacking on the mental side. Martial arts after college became the next chapter, and he describes his book The Art of the Fight as the distillation of sixteen years of self-enhancement.
Color, Number and Subtle Energy
Chance wonders aloud whether color and small choices matter, mentioning radionics talk of a toxic lime green, which he is careful to say is what others claim. Sepano answers that he practices qigong daily as his energy work and notices forces the five senses miss. He adds that he follows Pythagorean numerology, where a universal day and a personal day interact, and calls a five day the energy of the unexpected. Chance offers that Friday is Venus's day, so a five day and a Phi day at once.
One Flow Behind Many Names
Chance passes along a researcher he respects, Michael Tsarion, who holds that Hermeticism came from the East, and describes the Tao as a single flow that only seems divided by our vantage points. Sepano agrees that naming is arbitrary, since the Tao is the way and the way cannot be named, and he sees the same single source in Hermeticism, in Walter Russell's writing on light and in the seven Hermetic principles, which he calls master keys. He adds that any art form can quietly tap into that oneness.
Art, Artifice and the Trap of Words
Chance argues that one small word does too much work: art names both the healing and creative arts and the root of artificial, and lawyers, doctors and scientists use terms of art that wall people off from each other. In his view, expressions of imagination that harmonize with nature are not artificial, and people who conclude that art is bad miss finding and expressing their own. He wants cleaner distinctions in language, and Sepano answers with the Hermetic principle of polarity and its double-edged sword.
Cause, Effect and the Pendulum
Sepano brings in the Hermetic principle of rhythm and a line he attributes to the Kybalion, that the adept polarizes above the swing of the pendulum, using law against law. Chance turns that into a hurdle he can jump, and Sepano pictures Mario with his cape flying over obstacles, the one who is cause instead of effect. They land on not blaming others and on taking responsibility, and Sepano adds that qigong, in his experience, opens subtle senses and that imagination is the tool of the mind.
Quotes
“When we learn how to master one aspect of self, it shows us the path to master any other aspect of self.”
“Whether it's martial arts or music or painting, dancing, whatever it is, singing, it's like you're tapping into the Tao, you're tapping into the way without even knowing it.”
“When our arts, if you will, our expressions from our imagination are in harmony with nature, they're not artificial.”
“You're not giving a power away by blaming other things outside of you, which again makes you effect and not cause.”
“The practice of qigong goes way, way beyond just the physical benefits. It's a way of tapping into that subtle energy, the things that you can't pick up with the five physical senses.”
“In my opinion, imagination is exactly what Tao is.”
“Facts and perceptions come from the realm of imagination. We can't call something what it is without first imagining it.”
“You can kind of drop needing to motivate yourself with the motor of desire and let yourself be filled with your own spiritual energy and then let that be what takes you places.”
Sepano Zadeh (Sepano Hassanzadeh), known as 'Coach Sepano,' is a sport psychology and mental performance coach for martial artists and author of 'A.R.T. Of The Fight: Mental Performance For Martial Artists.'
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