The School of Metaphysics

The Power of the Mind

 

COLUMBIA, Mo --- Walter Hrycaj didn’t let his mind fall victim to his body when doctors told him he had an incurable disease at a very young age.

 

Hrycaj, director of the Columbia School of Metaphysics, was diagnosed with Tourette syndrome, ADHD and OCD at age nine. Doctors told him it was something he was going to have to live with for the rest of his life.

 

However, Hrycaj began to notice he was able to control his body as he participated in sports, specifically through the discipline of martial arts and the creative expression of skateboarding.

 

“The discipline of martial arts I believe really helped a lot. I could take all that energy that I had and I could channel it,” Hrycaj said. “I believe at that point in time when I knew how to control more of my physical body and I had the discipline to control my body, that’s when I knew that I had some certain element of self-control.”

 

His self-control enhanced even further as he developed a passion for skateboarding. He said skateboarding offered him a way to unleash his creativity and individuality and offered a way of finding himself at a very rough time in his life.

 

“I felt like I had a place and I felt confident in myself,” Hrycaj said. “I didn’t really know who I was as I was growing up through elementary and high school because I was the weird kid that just ticked and twitched and made noises and yelled obscenities in class.”

 

In addition to growing up with Tourette’s, ADHD and OCD Hrycaj also was faced with a verbally and physically abusive stepfather that would constantly put him down telling him he would never amount to anything.

 

He said that negative environments such as this one caused his Tourette’s and lack of self-control to emerge.

 

Hrycaj recognized that he needed to surround himself in a positive environment and rid himself of the people and situations that made him feel uncomfortable. As he did this, he was able to gain back his self-control over both his mind and body and made him begin to question the world around him.

 

“I started questioning my beliefs, started questioning the creator, started questioning things that were happening in my life,” Hrycaj said, “but there were a lot of synchronicities that played out that I didn’t lose a whole lot of faith. There was still some reason why I was here, some reason why, and I believed in that,” he said.

 

After divorcing his wife, Hrycaj knew he needed to make improvements in his life. He replaced drugs, smoking and drinking with exercise and began to get in shape. It wasn’t until he started his personal training business that he began to look more in to the effects of the mind on the physical body.

 

Hrycaj noticed his clients improving within the first three months of working out but after those initial three months they began to revert back to their old habits. This is when Hrycaj realized if his clients were able to know more about their mind and their mind’s potential, they would be able to easier maintain results within their physical body.

 

Through his search of spiritual practices, mind skills and healing modalities that could potentially help his clients tap into the powers of their mind, he came across the School of Metaphysics.

 

The School of Metaphysics teaches the full potential of the mind through concentration, mediation and visualization.

 

Hrycaj said what he learned at the school allowed him to access the full potential of his mind. He found himself better able to concentrate fully on a single idea and bring that idea all the way into fruition, something he wasn’t able to do before.

 

“With the power of belief you can do anything,” Hrycaj said. “I think Napoleon Hill said, ‘Whatever the mind can conceive, it can achieve.’ Whatever you think you can do in your life you have the abilities to make it happen.”

 

Not only did Hrycaj learn skills such as meditation, breathing, visualization, concentration and memorization, he also learned a lot about love, compassion and forgiveness.

 

Hrycaj says the knowledge he gained through the School of Metaphysics gave him the strength to look his stepdad in the eyes and tell him he loved him despite all the negativity he put him through during his childhood.

 

Hrycaj now teaches and directs at the School of Metaphysics in Columbia and hopes to see the school flourish and grow even more than it already has.