The Essence of Lightness: A Roadmap to Peak Performance and Self-Mastery .and Also a Historical Fiction Kung Fu Action Hip-Hop Humor Musical Epic

What would you do if the world you committed to honor and protect was a lie, and the only way out is through the 18 Guardians of the Shaolin Temple?

This is the world of Grandmaster Flash — protector monk and sole inheritor of Art of Lightness.

…and also it's your story: the truth about uncertainty and the tools and strategies required to navigate it with power and grace. Packed within this playful fiction-nonfiction format (that the author dubs a reverse mullet — party in the front, business in the back) is really two books in one.

Part 1 contains The Essence of Lightness — an epic short story of a warrior monk torn between honor and duty, who, in his quest to challenge the 18 Guardians of the Shaolin Temple for his freedom, discovers the Art of Lightness — a forgotten practice that taps elite mind-body potential and cultivates a lightness of being, but not without tremendous risk.

Part 2 contains The 9 Scrolls of Weightlessness — in-depth explorations of the philosophy and science of mind-body transformation, and Tom Fazio's Weightlessness model of growth, performance, and self-mastery. The nine scrolls reverse engineer Flash's process from the ground up, so that you too can become a master of Lightness.

You’ll learn within…

• …The Time Scroll that we are all of split mind, forced to choose ongoing between a weightless today and an awesome tomorrow. We can either fall victim to this dichotomy, or we can master the prime movers of success in each time horizon — resilience to stress and sensitivity to life.
• …The Uncertainty Scroll that there are critical differences between the world of the mechanic and the worlds of the fighter, trader, lover, and… weightless person. These differences mandate fundamentally different approaches to risk management and practice of the craft for optimal growth, if not mastery.
• …The Change Scroll how to orient personal approach and perspective in the world of mind-body development to design lasting change.
• …The Transformation Scroll five governing principles of transformation that hold true for all people at all times, independently of one’s method — antifragility, plasticity, tensegrity, physical structure, and integration.
• …The Weightlessness Scroll a framework for the development and integration of 3 key pillars — strength, flexibility, and meditation. With in-depth breakdowns on each pillar, you’ll learn their respective roles in developing resilience and sensitivity, as well as their magical synergies.
• …The Process Scroll how to apply the Weightlessness Spectrum framework to your own growth process by implementing objective assessments, dissecting sample programs, and acquiring key metrics for each pillar.
• …The Integration Scroll to move beyond the material elements of training, where hard science and smart programming play their part, and enter the world of integrative experience, where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. You’ll learn a simple process of inquiry that helps translate your mind-body training into immediate and reproducible weightless moments.
• …The Lightness Scroll the essence of lightness, delving into the advanced mind-body practice of Weightlessness Training - the Lightness Protocol. The pillars of Lightness – high-tension resistance training, dynamic stretching, ballistic weight training, and qigong energy work – were first introduced in In Pursuit of Weightlessness. You’ll learn the ins and outs of each pillar, their synergistic qualities, and how to program them effectively in Lightness Protocols for elite performance.
• …The Mastery Scroll to complete the circle and arrive at the present. Weightlessness is a process of becoming, not arriving. Mastery is not in the acquisition of bigger and better tools, but in the application of core principles to the small, seemingly inconsequential, daily actions of life.