Continuing from Rizal's post about "Manifesting", here is my addition:
One method of manifesting I use from silat is the 'salin' method or what is known as the 'totem' method in the West.
Once I had problems executing a complex movement until my master said: "Watch me do this properly. Done? Now, imagine you are me. You're no longer you. You're me. Ready?"
My partner fed me the exact same attack and my body just moved, within 80% accuracy exactly like my teacher's. My body had taken the form of the buah and made it my own.
This toteming concept is often confused with 'menurun', which is an actual spiritual 'salin'. Ancient silat (Silat Tua) used the concept of 'salin' to train students who had personality defects that affected their performance.
A person who had confidence issues was given the Arjuna totem to meditate on. To visualise standing like the mythical archer from the Ramayana. Molding the physical to modify the mental. Similar to giving a violent person to meditate on Sri Devi or a low-energy person to meditate on Hanuman (high-energy, expressive, creative).
After Islam came to our shores, this method was abandoned for Tanah (replaced Arjuna), Api (replaced Hanuman), Air (replaced Sri Devi), Angin (new, the intellectual aspect).
Today, there are still silat styles that meditate or focus on one of these four elements to enable a quick switch from peacetime (Angin/Air) to wartime (Tanah/Api) attitudes.
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