Mind, Body and Spirit Are One

Five Principles of Self Defense ©

 

The unification of the mind, body, and spirit is crucial when physically applying options that significantly impact personal safety and self-defense skills. We aim to unify our mind-body-spirit while learning to separate the mind-body-spirit of the assailant, thereby decisively defeating them. When the three are unified, they work together and focus on a common goal.

We can learn to unify our mind, body, and spirit through both physical and mental training, which allows us to deal with intense emotions, especially fear. However, when the mind-body-spirit become separated, the body becomes weak and vulnerable. Vulnerable separation occurs during a distraction, such as inner thoughts, emotional desires and feelings, movement, fear, physical pain, and injury.

Make personal safety a way of life. Like anything else, crime prevention takes conscious effort, but over time it becomes automatic, much like brushing your teeth, looking in your rearview mirror, and checking your blind spot when changing lanes while driving. After a while, your intuition will give you signals and put self-defense and 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 self-defense training, the “no-thought” state of mind can be integrated into the mind-body-spirit relationship, which can be combined with overall awareness of one’s environment, oneself, and potential assailants.

I. Crime Is an Emotional and Physical Problem
II. Options
III. Preparation
IV. Mind-Body-Spirit Are One
V. Awareness