Jeet Kune Do and the Art of Health Defense
A lot of what and why we eat is from emotional illusional cultural
bias conditioning. If you INTERCEPT that you can get ahead of it.
"Jeet Kune Do" means Way of Intercepting. Bruce Lee developed that. He
mainly used it to intercept your fist but it works in other areas just
as well. He used it to intercept his opponents mind. You can use it to
intercept your Self. Instead of Self-Defense it's HEALTH DEFENSE.
Truly understanding Health is a relatively new invention. It was not
something that was understood very well in the 1960's and 70's.
Everything Bruce Lee is 1973. He was in the 60's the very first wave
of modern health awareness. How could that be? Because in all of
history nobody ever lived long enough to worry about all the health
issues we have today. Plus we didn't really poison ourselves and our
food chain that much until after 1900 or so. It's just now catching up
to us.
Fossil fuels have no future so the industry is dumping it all into
plastic. Plastic is now taking over the mantle from fossil fuels as
our worst, biggest problem. You're not supposed to worry about that.
In the 1960's if you worried about this thing known as "your health"
you were considered a "Health Nut" and not in the good way, you were a
kooky person.
What is health? We are told and sold that it is some sort of balance
or optimization of a state of physical, mental and social well-being.
In other words it is whatever the current generation says it is. It’s
changed more in the last 50 years than in the past 5,000 years. I
would contend it didn’t even exist before 1900. Nobody had known the
relationship between germs and disease. It's been known, something was
wrong and many creative ways were devised to mitigate it but nobody
knew what was really going on until well after 1900.
We’ll get to the actual history of what health is from the NCBI-NIH.
Before we do that let’s touch upon The Art of Health Defense using
Jeet Kune Do. I created Total Health Defense as my personal form of
health based on my research and findings. It can be taught but not
standardized because each individual has different needs. The
definition of Health is slippery because it’s a moving target. It’s a
living definition. I’m not trying to define it I’m trying to defend
it. It’s up to you to define your own health.
What is Total Health Defense? It is a combination of health and
security. Typically security is not considered as health nobody thinks
of using a gun to help your diet plan. Martial Arts are thought of as
healthy but not useful for that perfect Risotto recipe (I think it has
something to do with the Basil). Anyhow,... this is a disconnect. What
does security, guns, war or cyber security have to do with your health
or your Risotto? Why is it disconnected? I think Bruce Lee was trying
to tell us. Evel Knievel said your body is like a Car engine, if you
put nitro-like substances into your body after awhile it will blow up,
just like the engine.
Here's Evel Knievel himself explaining one of the best health
algorithms ever described-
YOUR BODY IS A ENGINE - EVEL KNIEVEL
In the story of humankind we like to think that "health" was always
here from the beginning and only just now bad stuff is happening to
us. This is mental comfort food for one dimensional thinking. It's
actually the opposite. A hundred+ years ago if you woke up in the
morning that meant you were healthy. If you made it to Friday you were
successful. That sounds crazy but there was no way to tell otherwise.
A long time ago it didn't matter and nobody could tell anyways. Once
philosophy began turning into science we were able to fix cognitive
health because nobody knew it existed. The discovery of cognitive
science is barely 40 years old.
There has been some really smart stuff that's been known for a
thousand+ years. Each generation it seems that only a very small group
of people were paying attention to it. The majority of folks were
trapped by society in one dimension and held hostage by the narrative
of the day. A narrative built on missing information, misinformation,
fear of change, superficial conformity, financial slavery,
superstition, and occasionally a bit of wisdom and sometimes a dash of
common sense. There was no baseline for verification of authentication
of information. Education is a relatively new concept. In 1975 only
67% of the workforce had a high school diploma. Truth is not going
away it's just now arriving. It's pouring down on us like rain. Truth
is like science, it's always around but it's not official until it's
no longer a theory.
It goes to core of your thinking to get a peripheral vision to see
outside the common narrative of the day. Bruce Lee was able to see
outside the narrative. In his day people did not connect the dots when
it came to health.
For all the eons pre-1900 health seemed to consist of finding out why
spirits, ghosts, and very basic things like the doctor not washing his
hands made everyone drop dead so quickly. I don't consider that
"Health" that was unknown common sense. After 1900 things started to
change. It was the era of "The Medicine Show" where you put cocaine in
everything and call it a miracle cure. This was probably fun at first
but things quickly got out of hand with some of those potions and
elixirs containing mercury, arsenic, Lord knows what. The magic
Cure-All might kill you. The FDA was invented, just to keep you alive.
Only later on did it become about your actual health.
I think "health" started officially in 1948 with the definition
proposed by the World Health Organization. The WHO defines health as
“a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, not
merely the absence of infirmity or disease." This was considered
revolutionary thinking. It's a great start but it's a One Size Fits
All that doesn't Fit All. Humans have been re-writing history to cover
this up.
In 1959 René Dubos defined good health as the condition best suited
for each individual to reach his or her personal and social goals. In
1968 well-known sociologist Abraham Maslow said that health is based
on, in order: physical needs; then safety; then love and belonging;
esteem; and lastly self-actualization. He's getting there but
obviously he never got cyber attacked. Safety (security) is always
first. My algorithm (definition of health) is, in order: Security;
Health; Finance. Without security there is no point in building
anything. Finance may bump up to No.1 if it's killing security. Health
may bump up to No.1 if it's preventing Finance. When all is good the
proper order is: Security; Health; Finance.
Unfortunately during the definition of health the NCBI-NIH page
stopped talking about the definition of health and switched over to
the definition of the Health Care system. This is the problem we have
today. They switched the subject. The field of Health Psychology began
in the early 1970's and it was about the psychology of being in the
medical system. In 1969, Psychologist William Schofield prepared a
report entitled, "The Role of Psychology in the Delivery of Health
Services." Research of the time frequently regarded mental health and
physical health as separate. His idea was to have psychology help
patients and staff manage health-related behaviors. My idea was to
have psychology help you at home. Help you manage your health-related
behaviors long before you ever become a patient in the system.
Psychology is a young science starting in the 19th century. Before
that exploring your mind was all in the realm of philosophy.
Scientists Wilhelm Wundt and William James are generally credited for
being first in making psychology a science different from from
philosophy. They viewed psychology as the study of conscious
experience with a goal of identifying how the components of
consciousness combine to create our conscious experience. This was
right around the time we were putting Cocaine and Heroin in just about
everything and there was no clear differentiation between food, drugs,
and medicine. It was also the ending of the days when most people
never went past age 30.
It was live fast die young, hope I don’t die before I get old talkin’
bout my generation. If you only live to be 30 why study health? By
1880 or 1900 we were barely getting started on our journey to double
and even triple our life expectancy here in 2021. Nobody knew “health”
was a thing or that it should be. We’re only just now figuring that
out for the most part. Right around the time the WHO came up with one
of the first official definitions of health in 1948 we were inventing
Twinkies, Wonder Bread, cheap bologna, dubious hot dogs, corn syrup,
etc. it was processed EVERYTHING. After the WWll the idea was feed as
many people as possible. Soon it switched to all about money and the
economy. Nobody realized this was setting us up for failure because,
you aren't going to die. You need to take care of your health because
you're not going to die at age 30.
It wasn’t until the 1960’s that pesky thing known as health showed the
first signs of disrupting commerce as usual. Nobody paid attention
though. Doctors were doing cigarette commercials, you could smoke on
Airplanes, in the Pentagon. John Wayne is smoking in a B17 Bomber and
he's the Pilot! Health was a hippy fad in 1969 when Psychologist
William Schofield started his version of Health Psychology. Today now
that life expectancy is double and triple it looks incredibly dumb the
stuff we used to do. Don't even bring up Reefer Madness or lead paint
chips.
In 1979 when I went through Army Boot Camp I noticed the vast
differences of behavior as we all wanted a beer, we all wanted junk
food, drugs, whiskey, cigarettes, whatever crap it was you had growing
up with. I thought gee I want a beer too but it makes no sense to
freak out in front an Army Drill Sergeant. Bad idea. You're not going
to get what you want and the pain will rain, down upon you so why
would you do that? When I started learning about philosophy and
psychology it started to make some sense.
After Boot Camp on the long flight to Germany I read the book by Will
Durant called, "The Story Of Philosophy." That's when I started
connecting Health to Psychology. I started using "Health Psychology"
to mean the study of why you do the nasty things you do. To this day I
never consider it having anything to do with the medical system or the
hospital staff. If you're in there -it's too late. I consider Health
Psychology as Offense. Jeet Kune Do. Keep out of that system. To do
that I invented geospatial health psychology.
In the 1980's I had no idea the medical system in the USA would become
the No.1 world leader in FOR-Profit medical treatment. Fee For
Service. It's become so bad that kids today need to avoid drugs and
bad things not for their health, but for their finance. You simply
can't afford to go into that "Health Care" system. If they cured you
but made you bankrupt they didn't really cure you. Politicians will
tell you everything's fine nothing to see here move along go back to
work.
“It's like a market arms race between the plans, the hospitals and physicians for dominant position in the contract negotiations. One thing everyone agrees on, Policy Director Michael Miller said: Consumers are getting caught in the crossfire and there needs to be a stop to it. Consumers are sort of the innocent bystanders in this battle.” This is the war on health.
THE WAR ON DRUGS IS OVER IT'S NOW THE WAR ON HEALTH
Until now war was never about health. What we know as Health is a
really new invention. The history of health is shorter than a mosquito
leg and the history of weapons is longer than history itself. Health
is the political wing of warfare. It always been -if you made it to
Friday you were healthy. That's called luck. Health got serious only
in the past 100 years. What's different about food, drugs and
medicine? Tap the brakes because the war on drugs is over. This is the
war on health. Fodder and slaughter are being phased out.
When the NRA says use a gun for self defense they’re not talking about
your cholesterol or boosting your heart muscles. In the totality,
every day of your life is just another day at the office in the war on
health. It is ultimately about saving and guarding your health. When
you join the military you should understand you could die for your
country so make sure you get in the job that fits you.
Your health is a conflict. Why is it disconnected? The Army poster
doesn’t say WE WANT YOU to improve your cholesterol. The words health
and military have only been seen together in very recent history. And
that's a good thing it’s great progress. To get some of that you need
to first get in the military. Every year fewer people are able to make
it through basic training.
Let's go to a total systems type approach. What is a “Systems
Approach”? To quote engineer data scientist John Boik, “The Systems
Approach is a a “big picture” view: a look at how the components of a
system interact with each other to achieve an overall result, rather
than simply optimizing each component.” That sounds like something
Bruce Lee would say.
Think of that "bigger picture" as full of algorithms. There are little
formulas, little recipes, equations, that do things. When I get a good
algorithm I like to think I created it. Perhaps its just that I
uncovered a way to describe something that was always there. Either
way these algorithms can save the day.
The natural organic algorithms we are looking for are the cognitive
communication lines so we can do some "interception" and interruption.
The cognitive circuitry that your body uses to connect to your mind.
Once you become aware of this "circuitry" you can start intercepting
the signals, manually yourself, instead of using medicinals or doing
counterproductive self medicating. Think of your body as if its a Car
Engine. If you put the wrong fuel or oil in it too many times it will
blowup. Once you realize where your body's fuel lines, spark plugs,
wiring harness, circuits, cooling lines, etc. you will see things in a
whole new light from that point on. Think of the odometer, don't put
too many miles on your Liver. You wear out your Heart it's hard to get
the replacement parts. For your body it's like looking under the hood.
It's like looking at a cognitive map diagram of your system. Follow
the instructions on the Owners manual.
Here is a diagram of the Cognitive Loop using financial terms. Your
system is taking in $100 dollars but you only get to see 5 bux. It's
okay you don't need or want to see everything. This is normal until
it's not normal. The economy does not want you to know about this. It
wants you to blindly ingest as much as possible.
Life is about where to put your priorities and nothing else matters. Which priorities? Selfish priorities? Family priorities? Company priorities? Societies priorities? Religious priorities? Who owns your priorities? Total Health Defense is all of that all at once. Mike Tyson told me, “Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.” Bruce Lee told me, “Your greatest enemy is the element of surprise. To defeat that enemy don’t be surprised.” Offense or defense what should I do?
From a Total Health Defense perspective I would say that there are
things in life you can not control. And there are things in life you
can control. It only makes sense to feed the things you can control
and do not feed the things out of your control. That only seems
obvious if you can tell the difference. If you understand then you
don’t need the logic but you need the logic to understand. What should
we do?
Shannon Lee has a new book out about her father. She said just about
everyone on planet earth knows Bruce Lee as a Kung Fu fighter but not
everyone knows he was also a philosopher and a deep thinker. That has
to be the understatement of the year. She wanted to get that out and
share his words of wisdom. When I first learned Jeet Kune Do 40 years
ago it didn't take long for me to see the philosophy. Black Belt
magazine used to say, "Martial Arts is 80% mental 20% physical." I
never saw it. All the typical Karate Dojo's like at the strip Mall had
no philosophy or words of wisdom for me. Commercially Chinese Kung Fu
was unknown in the United States.
In 1980 I was a 20 year old Private in the Army overseas. A Sarge from
Seattle taught us this strange thing called, "Jeet Kune Do." Coming
back home there were no JKD Instructors in those days. I was broke
anyhow so I focused on the philosophy. I started using it to "Defend
My Health." I used to call it American Health Defense. I changed the
name for the cyber age to Total Health Defense. Traditionally health
is looked at as something you have to go get and try to keep. How
about seeing it in a different light.
What Do You Want in Life, Power? or Predictability?
Decoding
Bruce Lee's Jeet Kune Do
One of the main tenets of Jeet Kune Do is, "the art of fighting
without fighting." That means intercept your opponent before a fight
can get going. This involves psychology. Stopping the fight before it
gets started does not make a good Hollywood movie but for Total Health
Defense it means you win. Since 1973 hand to hand self defense hasn't
changed. But defending your health has.
Bruce did not look at Jeet Kune Do as a style of martial arts, the
arts were simply a container for his philosophies of self expression
and actualization. He wanted us to use that vehicle for our self
expression and actualization. He closed his schools and planned to
express his philosophies in movie plots. One of Bruce's main
algorithms is fully express yourself by not "limiting" yourself.
Physically this is very challenging but what about psychologically?
What is it that you have to "defend" every day? Your health. But of
course. In the 1960's the concept of health wasn't a Thing yet. Bruce
was a pioneer just for bringing it up. But comparing "health defense"
in his day to today is like comparing a WWll soldier to a modern day
Navy SEAL. Fortunately the very core of Jeet Kune Do is its concept of
adaptability. Unfortunately the attraction is to be Bruce Lee, copy
him. He built Jeet Kune Do to be adapted not copied. He said be
yourself not someone else. He specifically said don't try to be him.
Why did he say that?
He was trying to get us to not underestimate how being the best of our
own ability is incredible. He's saying be How I did it, not How I'm
doing it. This is not easy to see. If Muhammad Ali told us, "You don't
want to be the greatest you want to be the best of your ability" we
would be like, uh no, I want to be the greatest, just like you.
Doesn't everyone want to win the lottery as some sort of shortcut when
we know the real answer? Bruce wants us to see how to see the real
answer. "Be your own light" is his quote from Jiddu Krisnamurti the
great Indian philosopher. His teachings influenced Jeet Kune Do
philosophy. Krishnamurti talks about a different kind of learning.
Copying things to add to your arsenal is a important type of learning,
it’s imperative. There is another type of learning where copying is
not learning. Copying is static, mechanical, cumulative. This
different type of learning is proactively being passive. It sounds
counterintuitive. When you become adaptive you don't worry about
learning, you only worry about adapting.
I fear not the man who has practiced
10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick
10,000 times.
- Bruce Lee
What would a digital Jeet Kune Do look like?
It would adapt accordingly. Bruce Lee specifically said don't be him.
Salvador Dali said, "Have no fear of perfection—you’ll never reach
it." That means everything is a matter of balance and not black and
white, on or off, hot or cold. Be adaptable.
As we decode the Tao of Jeet Kune Do I can see hints of something new
that was only just beginning to develop. Algorithms. I'm saying Health
would not be just more or better information about nutrients,
lifestyle, workouts, diets and the Food Chain. That's traditional and
that's a mess.
Introduction:
Your Health Self Interest and JKD
Jeet Kune Do translates to "Intercepting Fist." In the TV Show
Longstreet, the episode where, before Mr. Longstreet could raise his
arm to make a fist Bruce Lee was on him subduing any attempt of
movement and says, "I intercepted your emotional state." Intercepted
your emotional state. That's a powerful algorithm. It was a fight by
not fighting and there was no fight. That's the main tenet of Jeet
Kune Do philosophy. What if you did that with your your health
psychology? Your Health Self Interest. Intercept it.
Cognitive activity is related to a form of signals that travel through
the air towards you and into your body as electrical psychological
message (signals) traveling at various speeds on series of cable-like
pathways through an organic analog network. So to speak. You need to
"intercept" that message. Intercept these signals.
Depending on the type, the neural impulse travels at speed ranging
from 2 miles per hour to, super fast 200+ miles per hour. But even
this speed is 3 million times slower than the speed of electricity
through a wire.
The psychological messages can travel through the air, once they
become physical, like if you touch something the impulse travels
through the nerve network to the brain at a rate of 350 feet per
second. Some kinds of pain signals travel slowly. If you stub your
toe, you feel the pressure right away because touch signals travel at
250 feet per second. But you won't feel the pain for another two or
three seconds, because pain signals generally travel only two feet per
second.
Before the 1960's nobody took health seriously. It was just another
side issue, if you made it to Friday you were healthy. Socio economic
political cultural religious agendas have hijacked our health. Now we
are trying to figure out all the things that wreck our health.
Health Literacy is not taught in school. How do you know what to do?
You can't do everything but you can do everything you can do. You
choose certain choices and sometimes certain choices choose you. Your
body is just like a motor. You wouldn't put the wrong type of fuel in
your Car, so why would you do that to your body?
Cognitive
Science
How can we manage our health defense when our mind hides from us how
it works? We live in the top layer. All the other layers are on
auto-pilot. The mind is guiding us, steering things, telling us when
to want when to pay attention. You don't see everything. Information
is sorted out for us on the lower layers for us to see. Sometimes your
spouse or partner can see something in you before you do. Facebook,
Google, Amazon, YouTube, they can see things in you before do because
they bother to track it. Then they sell it. You get nothing. You are a
product. Social media uses "behavior engineers" that feed you. To keep
you in "engagement." You could track your every move and predict your
own behaviors the same way they do. It's just not practical. You can
skip all that hassle if you just learn how to look at your self. This
is very difficult to do all by yourself. If you didn't know you won't
know it.
Walking around town life seems so fully formed. Every day is so new
it's difficult to see most of life is spent wondering what just
happened. Who has time to track all that? They do. And they do and
they don't tell you. Worse yet they don't give us a cut of the action.
I joined Facebook way back in the beginning. Right away I complained
they weren't giving me royalties even though I had a fake name and
fake information. Jaron Lanier says we should quit all social media
and hide under the couch. I think we've past that opportunity. For
example Facebook is all over you even if you never touched the
program. We just have to be more aware of the way things are now. This
is a new battlefield where the military and the civilians are becoming
the same target.
Your
worst enemy is the element of surprise. To defeat that enemy don't
be surprised.
- Bruce Lee
Health
Is The New Wealth
How do we use Jeet Kune Do ten years from now? 40 years from now? If
you had to pick one -POWER or PREDICTABILITY, which would you choose?
Hollywood would have you picking Power every time. Fighting Action
Fighting Action. That's what everybody wants. Power sounds good but
it's not predictable. With predictability you get power, for free,
it's like two for one. It's like intercepting. Predictability is about
the path you're on. Power is about Obstacles. Power leads to always
wanting (needing) more. A better pursuit is to seek predictability,
for then life is no longer about obstacles, it's all about which
"paths" to take. Life is about paths. In everyday life it's not a
clear cut choice. Always use power, but only after you first tried to
use predictability. Predictability is a form of interception. Fight
without fighting. All the references you see about intercepting are
about the opponent, his technique or his intent. What if you focus on
"intercepting" your self? That's what I call Total Health Defense.
Table of Contents
Introduction
You Can't Do Everything But You Can Do Everything You Can
Chapter
One
KNOW WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW
Chapter
Two
THE WAR ON HEALTH PICK YOUR POISONS
Chapter
Three
KNOW THY FIVE KEY HEALTH DEFENSE SYSTEMS
Chapter
Four
HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN ALGORITHMS
Chapter
Five
POWER OR PREDICTABILITY
Chapter
Six
THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG
Chapter
SEVEN
HOW TO TALK TO YOUR SELF
Chapter
Eight
HOW TO MAKE LUCK AND SEE IN THE DARK
Chapter
Nine
THE HISTORY OF DEATH
Chapter
Ten
GEOSPATIAL HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
Addendum
Episode
I
HACK THE HUMAN, BEHAVIOR GENETICS FATE
Episode
II
YOU ARE WHERE YOU ARE
Episode
III
ALL YOU KNOW IS WHAT YOU KNOW
Episode
IV
NATURAL VS ARTIFICIAL -THINKING
Episode
V
BIOFEEDBACK DATA VISUALIZATION PREDICTIVE LINK ANALYSIS
Episode
VI
GEOSPATIAL COGNITIVE CRYPTO CURRENCY
Episode
VII
EVERYTHING IS EASY, IF YOU KNOW WHO TO ASK
Episode
VII
JEET KUNE DO 40 YEARS FROM NOW
