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Critical Ingredients to Simple, Effective and Practical Self Defense

When it comes to fighting and self-defense, your emotions play a significant role in how you will react. Most self-defense and martial arts classes don’t really get into the emotional aspect and those that do tend to limit their focus to a gross oversimplification of emotional response. But, beyond being scared or angry, what role do the emotions play in handling a dangerous situation?

Let me begin with a story. Once when I was making an arrest, the perpetrator grabbed me. Now, I have a black belt in Hapkido and had been practicing all kinds of movements in class and had even used some to make arrests. However, this time when the guy grabbed me, I did a finger lock move on him, and it dislocated his finger so fast that I screamed almost as loud as he did as I was not emotionally prepared for his finger to come apart in my hand.

Have you ever wondered about how you would react?

What role does your emotions play besides reacting to the moment-to-moment occurrences you encounter when moving through your daily lives? For most of you, it’s kind of like your blood type. Besides knowing what it is, so you don’t get the wrong type of blood if you need it, your emotions are just things that you “have” and have very little control over.

The way your emotions work is that they are tied to your body’s own natural, human defense mechanism. That important because it means that your body is already hard-wired for self-defense by default.

The problem is that our sophisticated brains, social systems, cultural, academic, and familial education have all but made us completely unaware that we have these abilities and functions.

One of the things they tried to teach me in the Special Investigations course is that we naturally have intuition, but we suppress it when we should instead embrace it. That intuition, once I learned to use it, saved me from some pretty intense situations. It’s like your “Spidey sense” is tingling as they say in the Spiderman comics.

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So, what is the role of your emotions, and how can you use them for self-defense? Those are good questions, and I have some answers for you.

I cannot possibly cover everything about how your emotions work in this short article because it deals with the inner workings of your brain, but I will share some straightforward responses to stimuli that you get from the world around you.

Basically, everything that you encounter causes a feeling, or response, at a base, primitive level. This happens without you being conscious of it, and also occurs below the level of what you usually call your emotions.

These base “feelings” or responses can be generally classified as feelings of:

  • Attraction – you like something
  • Aversion – you don’t like something, or…
  • Apathy – you don’t care either way

Don’t confuse these base-level feelings with higher, more complex emotional states like:

  • Love
  • Hate, and…
  • Ignorance

They are much simpler and are not tied to the higher brain functions, but instead, originate from your primitive “reptilian” brain – also known as the R-complex. That’s the part of your brain that is primarily focused on self-preservation activities like eating, procreating, and not-dying.

“Why,” you may ask, “would I want to know any of this scientific gobbledygook? All I want to do is learn some moves to defend myself?”

And I would answer, “you don’t have to learn anything.”

Not if you just want to learn your “moves” and then hope that you’ll be able to use them when you have to in a real street self-defense situation.

Here’s the thing. When you’re training in your martial arts or self-defense class, you’re probably pumped up, happy, having a good time. Right?

Now, whether or not you’ve ever been in a real fight, or ever been attacked by an enraged individual out for blood, I’m sure you can imagine what that must be like. You can almost see his eyes and the intense look on his face. Add to that, the pressure and intention he’s projecting and the smell of him – we can’t forget the smell and feel of him as he invades your personal space.

Are you still in “attraction” mode? I bet not. And you’re not even in the real situation. You’re just thinking about it, and you’re having an “aversion” response.

How do you think you’re going to feel actually being in the heat of the moment?

You will likely react very differently than the way you do in class where there is no real danger. There are many stories about how “trained” and “expert” martial artists and self-defense practitioners have simply frozen under the pressure of an actual attack because they were totally unprepared for the raw emotions that were overwhelmingly present at the time.

That’s not a good place to be in the heat of the moment.

However, if you understand the role and immense value that your emotions play in keeping you safe, and, if you learn what role they play in spearheading your body’s defense mechanisms, then you can also learn to tap into the power that your emotions can give you and use them as tools for your defense.

Having this knowledge will also enable you to tailor and adapt your actual training methods to accommodate, acknowledge, and exploit your emotions as the valuable aids they are.

Remember, any monkey can learn the moves, but a real expert – a real master – uses things that most people aren’t even aware of, or don’t know exist. So, you have to learn how to use your emotions as part of your self-defense strategy.

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