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Martial Art vs. Mind!

Many beginners might get the impression that MA is not much related to many of the things you see in the movies and such at all like meditation, Ki/Chi energy and such…But the truth is that the mind plays a very big role in a MA with roots, here by i mean arts like Wing Chun, Bujinkan Ninjutsu, Eskrima etc. Where as many arts has been changed, now a days, to fit a sport setting more, these arts are often, not always, things like Karate, Taekwondo, Judo etc. and there are new MA sports to, commonly know as MMA….

The arts within the sports area do not focus much on the mental side at all, and if they do not in the same way as older arts often, thats my expirence from being within both sports (boxing, kickboxing etc.), selfdefance (Ju-Jutsu, Jiu-Jitsu etc.) and Martial Arts (Bujinkan, Arnis etc.)…

But lets talk about how the mind in some arts are used and in general how it can help you within your art, i have seen many mental things within martial arts and after i tried both courses within only the mental subject (non MA related) and some of the deeper MAs i would say that in the long run a good and deep MA (and instruktor) can give you the same or more as only visiting some mental courses….I have seen selfhypnosis, psykologi, healing, meditation of many kinds and so on within MA….I dont know if you know much about selfhypnosis? But it is a very strong tool, so lets talk about it today (the rest a other time), it is the teori that the human mind is made up of a subcon. and a con. The subcon. controls all our behavior on a level we dont think about like reflex, breathing and so on. The con. is what we focus on and by own free will do like moving a arm and picking up a glass etc….It is said the within the subcon. we have unlimited pontential, since we only normal use about 10% of our muscle mass and our brain, the rest is can in teori be reached by our subcon.
Thats where hypnosis and selfhypnosis comes in the picture its a way to reach your subcon. and program it……This means if you want to stop smoking, you use selfhypnosis to get into a trance and you tell your subcon. that you dont like smoking and the taste of smokes. The idea and what hopefully happens, if you did it right, is that the taste of your smoke next time you light one is very different and not nice, which leads to you stopping it within short time…

Now if we talk about something more MA related selfhypnosis can help you activate some of the things in the brain you dont use, more muscle stregth and help you perfect your movements within a techniqe, learn faster, hit harder, gain speed, take a punch….There are no real limits to the potential
. Later blogs i will focus more on how to use mental art (like selfhyp. and other), and also techniqes both with/without the mind part..
I hope you enjoyed this blog and that it got you thinking, and plz. come back again soon for more articles or if you have questions use my chat or make a comment on the blog….

Sincerly yours,

Jan

Originally posted 2009-08-31 17:52:54. Republished by Blog Post Promoter