The mind is like China. He is a sleeping giant, but when he wakes up he can shake the world.
Strength is more a product of the mind than it is of muscle. History provides hundreds of examples of the mind’s ability to generate phenomenal force. Psychologists refer to it as the fight or flight syndrome, where threatening circumstances can cause the body to load with maximum strength, endurance, and pain tolerance.
The term internal force which means Chi has long been heard in martial arts circles for adding power to your techniques as well as overcoming your fears, controlling your emotions and reactions to pain, studying your mind, body and the intricate. relationship between the two. Add to this combination of visualization techniques, dietary and nutritional considerations, and you can find the mental keys to unlocking your inner strength.
Mizu No Kokoro means, in pursuit of the calm mind, the calm of the mind is compared to undisturbed water, say generations of karate masters, and it is supposed to be the best mental attitude to achieve. In any combat situation, the mind should not be preoccupied with thoughts of attack or defense or what the outcome of the physical encounter will be, no matter how dire the situation may seem.
There is no other shortcut than hard and diligent training to acquire the state of no concern. Repetition in training exercises sends signals to your nervous system and brain. Techniques have taken hold that you shouldn’t have to think about acting, they just respond. In other words, the path to perfection is practice, practice, and more practice.
Your mind is its instrument Learn not to be its slave
Ok, so what should you pay attention to when training? Yes, I know there is a lot of information available, a lot of so-called experts; it’s hard to know where to start. Of course, you don’t have to become a marathon runner unless you want to. However, you may want to familiarize yourself with NLP techniques, which can help you train your mind. So without being too technical about it, if you haven’t considered NLP before or even heard of it, let me introduce you to the concept. We’re going to touch on some of the beginner basics in NLP, visual, auditory, or kinesthetic, which you may find helpful in the first place, it’s called NLP Anchoring.
NLP anchoring is generally defined as: “The process of associating an internal response with some external trigger (similar to classical conditioning). It is basically a trigger that elicits a response in you. Your brain is literally an interlocking matrix of connections and associations Neural cells, they are anchors. This is how we give meaning to the world around us. Here’s an extreme example:
Russian dog teasing, Russian behavioral psychologist Pavlov became famous for his experiment with dogs. Every time he fed his dogs, he rang a bell. Feeder Dog- Doorbell Feeder Dog- Doorbell Feeder Dog- Doorbell. At this point I would just have to ring the bell and what do you think the dogs would do? Salivating the drooling dog showed that an association had been made in the dog’s brain between the stimulus of the sound of the bell and the experience of eating food … so his answer would be to drool.
Anchors are everywhere!
So if you listen to a particular record and it makes you feel happy or sad, that would be an example of a simple anchor. If you see a comedian on stage who makes you laugh for 10 minutes, you may only need to see his face for a second, or just remember the expression on his face inside your mind and start smiling.
These are just a few examples of anchors not deliberately created auditory (record sound) and visual (funny face of comedians). A self-created and deliberate anchor is usually physical or, in NLP terms, is called “kinesthetic.”
If you practice taking a posture and visualizing a verbal assault while simultaneously generating certain feelings within you, after a few practices your neurology will learn to automatically and unconsciously associate and trigger those feelings each time you do the alignment posture without consciousness. effort on your part at all. This is a great and powerful way to overcome fear of confrontation and violence. This is a much more sophisticated strategy often used by specialists, but if you like it, feel free to use it as well. Remember that NLP is defined as an attitude of experimentation and curiosity, so if it works for you, go for it!
What kind of feelings would you like to generate in the face of violence? Well, certainly, without fear! In fact, you want to feel strongly motivated to face this threat, confidently and decisively, skilled and competent. In short, NLP has numerous powerful tools to help with a variety of human emotions, problems, and circumstances. The ideas presented here will give you a foundation to start working within the NLP realm. The psychological aspects of the system are also important. The fact that it is inspired not only by physical techniques but also by psychological ones gives you the edge over many other fighting systems.
Successful self-protection
To put these principles into practice, as elite Special Forces around the world do, you need to use them in all aspects of your life so much so that they become unconscious activities like riding a bicycle. You won’t even need to think about them. Someone who lives at this level of behavior will control all aspects of their life so that they not only transform their ability to fight, but also their ability to move on in life. This was a brief introduction to NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming). Like China, your mind is a sleeping giant.