{"id":12441,"date":"2020-09-16T14:11:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T14:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/?p=12441"},"modified":"2021-04-06T14:38:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T14:38:21","slug":"critical-ingredients-to-simple-effective-and-practical-self-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightfastvideos.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/16\/critical-ingredients-to-simple-effective-and-practical-self-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Ingredients to Simple, Effective and Practical Self Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\nWhen 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?\n\nLet 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.\n\n[dfads params='groups=292&limit=1&orderby=random']\n

Have you ever wondered about how you would react?<\/h3>\nWhat 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nThe 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.\n\nOne 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 \u201cSpidey sense\u201d is tingling as they say in the Spiderman comics.\n
\n\t\t[dfads params='groups=290&limit=1&orderby=random']<\/div>\nSo, what is the role of your emotions, and how can you use them for self-defense<\/a>? Those are good questions, and I have some answers for you.\n\nI 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.\n\nBasically, 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.\n\nThese base \"feelings\" or responses can be generally classified as feelings of:\n