Hero Living: Seven Strides to Awaken Your Infinite Power
Rudy Reyes
Language: English
Pages: 288
ISBN: 045123183X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
The star of HBO's Generation Kill and the real-life warrior from the New York Times bestseller presents his empowering philosophy.
In his publishing debut, Rudy Reyes introduces his warrior philosophy of "Hero Living": part Homer, part Joseph Campbell, part Bruce Lee, and part Spider-Man. He outlines the various stages in the journey to bring forth the hero within: recognizing the hero's call, following the hero's path, and returning from the battlefield with the hero's hard- earned wisdom.
Taking readers step-by-step through his program, Reyes draws from his own heroic story of how he triumphed over his harrowing childhood experiences of poverty and abandonment. Rather than giving up hope, he heeded the hero's call to live up to his full potential-first as a martial-arts champion, then as an elite warrior in the mountains of Afghanistan and sands of Iraq, and finally in his post-Marines life as a personal trainer, actor, and motivational speaker.
Sean Blakemore anymore. I just quit. So that same kind of quit was creeping and bubbling up from me as my proud body was being destroyed by Amphibious Reconnaissance School. On the fifth day of constant operations I started to hallucinate images in my heart not in my head. I felt as though I was being lost in a wave of Marines a thousand strong and I was completely insignificant. I felt unimportant and not needed. I was certain the stink and rancor of quit was all over me and that my teammates
in shadowy suspension between you and the full experience of the electric phenomenon called life. But you can open your eyes to see and then make a choice, perhaps throw a stone to crash down the glass limits that you live in, or merely open the window and breathe new air and then step through the doorway to a possibility of more self. In aikido the martial artist becomes passive and accepting as a method to totally observe a relationship without judgment, fear or tension. They are not fixated
doing his own thing, but he was hip! Lifting and bodybuilding was what I knew to be disciplined and successful, so it’s what I knew and wanted to share with my brothers for their own success. I wanted them to make it! Plus it was something we could always do together, and a family that push-ups together stays together. In the Omaha Home for Boys, Ceasar was a skilled gymnast and wrestler. He had also excelled in a lot of fistfights in the gladiator academy of a high school he attended, so he
in the warehouse in Kansas City. Even in the moments of Sifu’s harshness, I understood we were connected in the reciprocity of learning, a sharing of growth and life. Eventually we Reyes brothers went onto train with other great masters in a continual pursuit of happiness and hunger for more knowledge and skills, and in the following decade Michael became a world champion in Chinese Wushu and kung fu, and a sought-after martial arts teacher. With my brother Michael, fighting with staffs.
mustn’t be kept in the temple. I must share Hero Living in my unique way, because in sharing the light with others, we are all transformed.” The gist: The sacred summons to share takes form gently and intuitively. The sensation often feels like you’re being plugged into something bigger than yourself—a purpose, a meaning, a calling. You have become a conduit for the message of Hero Living, and no other hero can share it quite like you. There is a poignant moment in this stride when you take