MENTAL GYMNASTICS

It is no secret that the greatest weapon is the mind.  If the mind can't engage when it comes to combat of any kind, then the most powerful physical weapon may not only be ineffective, it may actually work against you.  In my workshops I've always taught what I call Mind Rehearsal, and I like that term because it really describes what we do.  We think about a variety of situations of where and how we can be attacked and we visualize how to react...then we rehearse it in our minds over and over. 

But lately I was talking to a Prepper friend of mine who was formerly in the military and a former law enforcement officer and also my co-speaker in a couple of seminars that we did.  He knows his stuff.  He was talking about the mental part of self defense and called it Mental Gymnastics...now he may have come up with that term since his very lovely wife is a former gymnast...but I loved the term and thought it very original...so I "borrowed" it. :)

Think of how perfect it is...gymnastics "involves exercises intended to display strength, balance & agility"...so isn't that what we want when we are training our minds to react/battle/fight an attacker?  We want our minds to be strong and balanced so that we have the physical agility to kick the scum bag's a_s!!

So today, start your mental gymnastics....as you are laying in bed at night and can't sleep or when you are having to wait somewhere (like the doctor's office or the DMV or wherever) or  specifically set aside some time... and picture where you might be and how an attacker might come up to you and then really visualize how you are going to react. Make the scene very real in your mind...where did he come from? how did he grab you? how big is the guy? does he have a weapon? is he high on drugs? is there more than one attacker? and so on...because if/when an attack does happen you will only have seconds (if even that) to make those assessments and react.  You won't ever see Mental Gymnastics in the Olympics (although I'm sure it is practiced by all great athletes) and so you won't win a gold medal but you may very well save your life or that of a loved one.

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