Five Principles of Women’s Self-defense

PRINCIPLE FOUR

Mind and Body Are One

The unification of the mind and body is critical when physically applying your options that will greatly impact personal safety and self-defense. We want to learn to unify our own mind and body while learning to separate the mind and body of the assailant in order to decisively defeat him. When the mind and body are unified, they are working together and focused on a common goal. We can learn to unify our mind and body through both physical and mental training. However when the mind and body become separated, both become weak. Vulnerable separation occurs during a distraction such as inner thoughts and emotional desires and feelings, movement, fear, physical pain and injury.

Making Personal Safety a Way of Life: Like anything else crime prevention takes conscious effort, but over time it becomes automatic like brushing your teeth, looking in your rearview mirror and looking over your shoulder to change lanes when driving. After awhile your intuition will give you signals and put self-defense/crime prevention in your conscious mind. Unfortunately, most people don’t start planning until something has already happened to them or someone they know. The need to know is put off until there is a sudden shock or sudden fear that motivates us into action. Life in the 21st century is fast and changing with always something else that needs to get done, but if you are not safe when trying to get your tasks accomplished nothing else is going to matter when suddenly shoved into the zero hour of an assault!

Through proper training, the “no-thought” state of mind can be transferred into the mind-body relationship, which can be combined with the overall awareness of one’s environment, yourself, and potential assailants.

I. CRIME IS AN EMOTIONAL PROBLEM AS WELL AS A PHYSICAL PROBLEM
II. OPTIONS
III. PROPER PREPARATION AND TRAINING
IV. THE MIND AND BODY ARE ONE
V. AWARENESS