If you have faith in Jesus Christ you can really hit people harder.
Faith in Jesus Christ means that I am forgiven when I beat them. If you have Buddhist thinking you feel bad to hit them. Faith in Jesus means everything you do is okay. Not the best, but who cares if you still get into Heaven!?
This is why Western powers are so strong. They can take, kill..do anything and at the end of their life die happy.
Many people practice Asian martial arts and try to be Buddhist or Daoists...why? They never took over the world. Catholic Church took over the world.
This power made Emperor St. Constantine very viscous.
Pray hard, and hit harder. Praying is a kind of meditation too.