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When Martial Arts Awareness Creates Hypervigilance in Daily Life

My kung fu training taught me to read people's intentions through their body language and now I can't turn it off. I see aggression and deception everywhere and I don't know if I'm more aware or just paranoid.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Skills developed for specific contexts can generalize in ways that distort rather than enhance our relationship to ordinary social situations.

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