The Three Levels

1) The Thought Engine learns and knows techniques, can be tricky and plan and can evade and attack. It is how we learn in general and many people never progress past this operational state. The Brain Mind has a limited bandwidth and interfaces with muscle memory to augment its efficiency.

2) The Sympathetic Engine is fast and has a higher bandwidth to handle the amounts of information that Haptic Control requires. It comes from the factory with a default "Fight or Flight" kind of twitchy jumpy energetic operational mode which can be reprogrammed with more Martially useful techniques. The high level External Artist who has become fluid and relaxed in their automatic movements uses this engine but it still controls contraction type muscular activity. There is a certain type of Fajin that is generated by this engine.

3) The Parasympathetic Engine is instantaneous and has more neural capacity than either of the other 2 engines and has the bandwidth in the required range to monitor movement. It interfaces with the Relaxation Response, Expansion Coordination and has the Myo Facial Fiber Optic Web under its control. It is this Engine that produces the more Super-Luminary Fajin and the body shapes and structure naturally fill in to support with sound postures. This causes some to think this is simply a higher level structural Newtonian technique because it generally requires a good posture and mechanical connection to the opponent.

Some people want to use Chinese terminology and argue the meaning of Fajin, Fali, Hua and Na but my Chinese friends tell me that the ancient texts are written in a style of Chinese that is so abstruse even for a native speaker who has studied internal arts that you are better off relying on the excellent translations that catch the essence of the text. Many of these translators were not Chinese but they were scholars of Ancient Chinese and Martial Arts. To claim that the concepts hidden behind the traditional terms are reserved for the culturally Chinese is silly. That being said these concepts may be spoken of in the language of Neuro-Science and Neuro-Physiology without reinventing or watering down the concepts. If a thing is true it may be spoken of (Except the Dao!)

Rather than the highly idiosyncratic terms that everyone seems to have private definitions of I choose a more modern language that comes from Neuro-Science that has allowed continual progression we see in Sports and Performing Arts. I concern myself initially with The Three Levels.