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 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 up with maximum strength, endurance, and pain tolerance.

The term Chi, meaning internal strength, has long been heard in martial arts circles for adding power to your techniques, as well as for overcoming your fears, controlling your emotions and reactions to pain, the study of your mind, your body and complex. relationship between the two. Add visualization technique, diet, and nutritional considerations to this mix, and you just might find the mental keys to unlocking your inner strength.

Mizu No Kokoro means, in search of the calm mind, the calm of the mind is compared to the calm water, according to generations of karate masters, and it is supposed to be the last 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 appear.

There is no short cut other than hard and diligent training to attain the state of carefreeness. Repetition in training exercises sends signals to your nervous system and brain. Techniques are ingrained that you shouldn’t have to think about acting, you 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 keep in mind when you train? Yes, I know there is so much information out there, so many 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, is that it? However, you may want to familiarize yourself with NLP techniques that you may find useful in training your mind. So without getting too technical about it, if you haven’t considered NLP before or even heard of it, let me introduce you to the concept. We are going to touch on some of the basics for beginners in NLP, visual, auditory or kinesthetic, which you may find useful first, it is 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’s basically a trigger that elicits a response from you. Your brain is literally an interlocking matrix of connections and associations.” neurons, These are anchors. It’s how we give meaning to the world around us. Here’s an extreme example:

russian Dog Teasing, the Russian behavioral psychologist Pavlov became famous for his experiment with dogs. Every time he fed his dogs, a bell rang. Feeding Dog – Doorbell Feeding Dog – Doorbell Feeding Dog – Doorbell. At this point, I would just have to ring the bell and what do you think the dogs would do? Salivate the drooling dog proved that an association had been made in the canine brain between the stimulus of the sound of the bell and the experience of ingesting food…so that the response for him 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 a stage that makes you laugh for 10 minutes, you may just have to look at his face for a second, or just remember the look on his face inside your mind and you’ll find yourself beginning to smile.

These are just a few examples of unintentionally created anchors in the auditory (sound of the album) and visual (funny face of the comedians). A deliberate, self-created anchor is usually physical or, in NLP terms, called “kinesthetic.”

If you practice taking a pose and visualizing a verbal attack at the same time that it generates 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 pose without awareness. no effort on your part. This is an excellent and powerful way to overcome the fear of confrontation and violence. This is a much more sophisticated strategy, usually used by specialists, but if you like it, feel free to use it too. Remember that NLP is defined as an attitude of experimentation and curiosity, so if it works for you, do it!

What kind of feelings might you want to generate when faced with violence? Well, there is certainly no fear! In fact, you want to feel strongly motivated to deal with this threat, confident and determined, 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 in the field of NLP. What is also important are the psychological aspects of the system. The fact that it is modeled on not only physical but also psychological techniques gives you an advantage over many other fighting systems.

Successful self protection

To put these principles into practice as elite Special Forces around the world do, you must use them in every aspect of your life to the point that they become unconscious activities like riding a bike. 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 it not only transforms their ability to fight but also their ability to get ahead in life. This was a brief introduction to NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming). Like China, your mind is a sleeping giant.