There is an awesome show on Netflix right now, called “House of Ninjas”. And yes, you guessed it… It’s about a home with a family who are the last surviving clan of Ninjas… or so we think.
The story centres on a young man who is beating himself up because despite being a ninja, he failed to kill one of his enemies, and as a result his brother got killed and the enemy is now haunting the family.
You want to know what I love about ninjas? I’ve had a fascination with them since I was a kid. And it’s not just that they’re invisible martial arts masters. (Well okay, if I’m honest it is mostly because they’re invisible martial arts masters).
But it’s also because, as is demonstrated in this TV show, when you see the ninjas walking around in their everyday lives, and they look completely normal and unremarkable. Just like if you saw Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan, or any great real-life martial arts master walking down the street, you probably wouldn’t even notice them… unless you somehow ended up in a fight with them.
In other words, being a martial arts master – or in this case a ninja – is kind of like having a secret superpower.
And that, my friend, brings us to the point. This ‘secret’ superpower is the closest thing I can describe to deeply understand the Psychological Switch. It’s literally like a psychological superpower. When events occur that everybody else gets really upset and angry about, you can be the calm in the storm. When other people would get into conflicts and pointless drama, you can bring peace to the situation. When other people don’t know how to react or what to do, you have a resilience that most people will never understand. And moment to moment in your everyday life, you have a deeper level of presence, inner-peace and happiness than most people around you have probably ever been able to experience.
In other words, you’re basically an emotional, spiritual, Psychological Ninja. (Psycho-Ninja?)
Whatever you want to call it, here’s where to begin your training, you soon-to-be Shinobi. Don’t forget your nunchucks:
