Joerii,
I don't think you are being too negative. I agree that NEW is not the best, and while I have a lot that I could say on this matter, and a lot of other subjects to fully disagree with Bruce on, I am only going to present a brief argument about NEW here today, because people here are far too defensive of Robert Bruce. To the people who are, notice that I am disagreeing respectfully. This is not an insult.
This will be my first and last post on this forum.
Note, if you look in Bruce's online NEW guide, you will see that he says specifically, that he believes, "and intends to show that NEW is the most powerful energy developement system in the world today" (or something very similar). I know because this has stuck in my mind because I think that it is definitely wrong. I would be interested to hear what other programs Bruce has tried that worked less.
Because I was injured and could not do qi gong, I tried NEW for a period of several months, it did not work well for me, or at least not NEARLY as well as some other things I have done. I am sure that when it is used as a system on its' own, it is not going to be the best thing for many people. While I can think of several potential problems with NEW, one thing that I feel is important to note is that, I really feel that it is not "new" at all. Practitioners of methods such as qi gong, which have basically been around for thousands of years thanks to Buddhist Monks use very similar energy movement actions while standing in certain postures. In moving postures, qi gong practicioners might do things like imagining that their hands are brushing on blades of grass, and in NEW people imagine the feel of a paintbrush. It is really the same thing. In qi gong you might spiral energy up you legs, move it around your spine or simply move it to chakras if you wished to stimulate them, and in NEW you would move energy up your legs or to chakras with imaginary "awareness hands". These methods simply do not have the same terminology as NEW. In qi gong you just move it. If NEW was the best thing available, then qi gong postures would have dissapeared whenever qi masters started to implement such similar techniques so long ago.
See ya
I don't think you are being too negative. I agree that NEW is not the best, and while I have a lot that I could say on this matter, and a lot of other subjects to fully disagree with Bruce on, I am only going to present a brief argument about NEW here today, because people here are far too defensive of Robert Bruce. To the people who are, notice that I am disagreeing respectfully. This is not an insult.
This will be my first and last post on this forum.
Note, if you look in Bruce's online NEW guide, you will see that he says specifically, that he believes, "and intends to show that NEW is the most powerful energy developement system in the world today" (or something very similar). I know because this has stuck in my mind because I think that it is definitely wrong. I would be interested to hear what other programs Bruce has tried that worked less.
Because I was injured and could not do qi gong, I tried NEW for a period of several months, it did not work well for me, or at least not NEARLY as well as some other things I have done. I am sure that when it is used as a system on its' own, it is not going to be the best thing for many people. While I can think of several potential problems with NEW, one thing that I feel is important to note is that, I really feel that it is not "new" at all. Practitioners of methods such as qi gong, which have basically been around for thousands of years thanks to Buddhist Monks use very similar energy movement actions while standing in certain postures. In moving postures, qi gong practicioners might do things like imagining that their hands are brushing on blades of grass, and in NEW people imagine the feel of a paintbrush. It is really the same thing. In qi gong you might spiral energy up you legs, move it around your spine or simply move it to chakras if you wished to stimulate them, and in NEW you would move energy up your legs or to chakras with imaginary "awareness hands". These methods simply do not have the same terminology as NEW. In qi gong you just move it. If NEW was the best thing available, then qi gong postures would have dissapeared whenever qi masters started to implement such similar techniques so long ago.
See ya