Monkey Brain Training

You have heard this before, the monkey brain. If you read the sites I have posted on as well as the books concerning violence, self-defense, etc. you would have recognized the use of "monkey brain" many, many times.

The more I learn. The more research I do. I am finding that for me, the male species, training ourselves to keep the monkey brain in its cage is really a critical training component of the martial arts with emphasis on using it for self-defense.

It would seem in many of the stories I have heard, seen, read, etc the interaction resulting in a fight is always a result of one, the other or both parties losing control to the monkey brain.

Do you have a topic in your self-defense instruction that promotes learning how to keep the monkey out of it? Sometimes hitting an obstacle head-on is necessary. Controlling the monkey may be one of them, it is for me.