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Step 1
Set aside at least 1/2 hour both before and after your Shaolin kung fu practice for meditation. In the traditional belief, meditation and martial arts practice cannot be separated. In fact, in Shaolin monasteries, monks must spend years practicing meditation before they are allowed to learn fighting techniques.
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Step 2
Sit in a calm, quiet location in a cross legged position. Keep your spine tall and straight and allow all of the tension in your body to dissipate. Breathe in deeply through your nose, filling your lungs all the way to the bottom, pushing against your belly. Exhale through your mouth, pushing all of the air out of your lungs.
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Step 3
Clear your mind and allow all of the destructive energies of the world to be released. Fighting, whether defensive or offensive, is an aggressive action. In order to keep your intentions pure and your emotions under control, it is important to let your anger, fear, guilt, sadness and other emotions free so that you do not carry them into a fight nor take them away with you into your daily life.
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Step 4
Practice Shaolin meditation before and after fighting as well as any time that you begin to feel stress and tension building. Meditation will reveal your inner strength, will help you learn when to use offensive fighting techniques and when to use defense. Meditation will also help you to center your mind and body during a fight, allowing you to use your mind and body in combat instead of pure emotion.
