[quote="Stryke"]I love the phrase *Mind like the sun* , there is no doubt to what it infers ....

The three stages George described in developement of the mind state while doing kata were "mind like water" which described a pool of water with no ripples, a mind which was empty of consious thought ...

What you describe is what I call body language and if you say different things in verbal speech and body speech you really can get in trouble. I think one of the reasons I never was seriously attacked in 30 years of working on the street as a police officer is my early training with Sensei George ...