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Sweet.. *Personal experience* Just yesterday I was sparring with a friend. She has very good martial arts skills, and was teaching me a few things. After getting alright at a few of the techniques she taught me, I thought I could use energy to help me with it. It moved much easier and faster than normal (I visualized it as a light blue liquid) and I moved much smoother and faster with the energy behind it. The things I learned was, in the physical exersion, I was invigorated, my energy flowed faster, more precicely, and more naturally than normal, and that energy can indeed improve martial arts. (even the ones that don't include it)

Actually one can manipulate energy easier when they're doing activity biggrin If you want the proposed "scientific" reason (since many people want science along with all things that seem impossible), since moving a body-part flares the aura (see my topic on aura remote control where I scientifically explain how that could be happening), moving around actually gives you energy a push... Then another... Then another... And just as multiple ripples in a pond can strengthen each other to make the entire pond churn, multiple movements will cause your energy to flow all on it's own. The only difficult part to manipulating energy while doing exercise is grasping your energy, which many if not most people need to meditate to do. However you can always meditate, grasp your energy, and struggle to keep a hold of it while you do martial arts sweatdrop

As for how it can improve your martial arts skills, there are limits but so few that I'm sure you'll find thousands of ways to entertain yourself. Just using your aura you can't break wood, but you can accelerate your arm or strengthen it to make breaking wood easier. You could also use energy to cushion your arm so you don't feel any pain if you mess up xd Or you could put energy into your legs to run faster, jump higher, kick faster and/or harder... Or if you really want to- you can do my acceleration trick (see my "Reiki Acceleration" thread) and make yourself into the ultimate ninja xd

what u can do w/ energy is only limited by your imagination.. it is true u can use energy for the purpose of martial arts or whatever... i even have a ninja guide that speaks of 3 of the chakras too..

You got the colors wrong. ^_^
Root is at the base of the spine and red. Sacral is slightly above the sex organs and orange. Solar plexus is below the breastbone and yellow. Heart is to the right of the heart and green. Throat is in the throat (obviously) and light blue. Third Eye is in the middle of the forehead and indigo. Crown is on the top of the head and pale violet.