Muk'yah K'ik

Muk'yah K'ik (ముఖయ ఖికి, Control of fluids), more often known as Blood Control among the general public, refers to a set of breathing and Meditations techniques that originated in the Mutul at an unknown date, possibly during the Chaan Dynasty some 2,000 years ago. Muk'yah K'ik is used for the purpose of health, spirituality, and martial-arts training. The traditional aim of Muk'yah K'ik is for its practitioners to reach an absolute concious control over their bodies, from the flux of their blood to the tension of their muscles and other physiological elements.

Muk'yah K'ik training involve exercices improving the coordination of the individual's body with the breath, cultivating physical stillness, and conscious (deliberate) movement designed to produce relaxation or releasing of muscular tension especially when combined with adapted breathing techniques. Ultimately, Muk'yah K'ik is about developing what martial artists call "Internal power". One way to possibly achieve this is to train particular exercises regularly where the breath is matched with movements of blood or to effect the movement of blood throughout the body. Through these exercises it can be possible to move the blood to a particular area during a particular movement to have a particular result.

One of the purposed benefits of these exercises is the relaxation of blood vessels, nerves, muscles and sinews to help the body move more freely. With the body moving freely and an excess of blood moving to a particular area with little or no effort, the practitioner can possibly develop many benefits such as faster recovery from injuries, an ability to hit with more strength or to move faster, regulation of blood pressure, increased stamina, greater sensitivity, and so on. Clinical research however have yet to show evidences of Blood Control's rumored therapeutic effect.

The style

Blood control aim to be essentially formless and focus on improving the perception of one's body, its movement, and of force. forms are performed slowly to improve coordination and balance by increasing the work load, and to require the student to pay minute attention to their whole body and its weight as they perform a technique. The goal is to learn to involve the entire body in every motion, to stay relaxed, with deep, controlled breathing, and to coordinate the motions of the body and the breathing accurately according to the dictates of the forms while maintaining perfect balance. At hgiher levels, training include sudden outbursts of explosive movements using the techniques developed through the slow repetitions and standing meditations. In terms of physics, it is a simple matter of body alignment, coordination, and torque: The body begins in a relaxed physical state, which is then quickly accelerated like a "whip" in a coordinated movement of the entire body. Generally, the strike is immediately retracted after contact to shorten impact time, which theoretically increases the impulse of the strike. Perfect mastery of this explosive power is the goal of the martial Muk'yah K'ik.

Training

Training include:

• Muk'yah Chihil B'ak'tal (ముఖయ చిహిలి భఖతల) Control over Nerves, also known as Mutuleses Standing Meditations, where emphasis is put on natural conditions, working to improve listening to the body, and gaining complete awareness of "the details and the whole". A common form of Mutulese Standing Meditation is for the practitioner to focus his awareness on a single muscle or a group of muscles. A long term goal is to gain complete knowledge over one's own body and then to access a concious fine control over it, in a state known as "Awareness-Conciousness". An often rumoured ability among "Grand Masters" is the capacity to move a single muscle of their body at a time, or conciously keeping a muscle locked in a state of tension.

• A sub-category of these Meditations are the Muk'yah Chihil K'ikel (ముఖయ చిహిలి ఖికిలె, Control over the blood vessels) whereas the aim is not only to control breathing but also the circulation of blood inside one's own body as a way to module the input of energy into muscles. Depending on some schools, these exercices may not be considered to be any different from the Muk'yah Chihil B'ak'tal (if they aim to take control of the blood vessels through the muscles in their walls) or on the contrary be categorized as completely different (if the school aim to control the blood directly through the semi-mystical process known as "Mind View").

• Pek ip (పెకె ఇపి) Moving Force moving and footwork exercises trying to bring the Awareness-Conciousness developed during the Standing Meditations into movements.