Psychological Self-Defense

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I can just tell, from the title of this article many will make an assumption it all has something to do with mind-state and mind-set but it doesn’t - yet, it does, now figure that one out. I hope to make my point of view clearer - or muddier as the case may be. 

What I hope to convey is how the brain takes stimuli, perceptions and distinctions generate of, affecting, or arising in our minds as it relates to a situational mental and emotional state of mind in self-defense as it may or may not affect our mind and behaviors as it pertains to our conscious and unconscious experiences with emphasis on conflict along with the potential of violence. 

It involves our perceptions, our cognitions, our attentions, our emotions, how they effect our maturity and intelligence, our motivations, our personalities, our character along with how we connect and act with others and so on. It is probably the most critical and complex part of learning and applying self-fense as anyone who understands the full spectrum of both psychological and physical self-fense will tell you. 

This is the one area that is also about gender because all that is mentioned is effected and affected by how the genders are socially conditioned. Even one gender over another will have similarities in the differences in social conditions and conditioning as it relates to culture and those cultural beliefs especially since modern society is chock full of varying cultures and cultural belief systems all within sight and sound of one another resulting if frictions and such all subject to conflict but not always to violence. 

No, one does not need to be a psychologist or psychiatrist to understand the psychological aspects involved in self-defense or in self-defense teaching, training and practice let alone applications. It means you have to have a certain sensitivity toward the differences in humans starting with gender then cultures and those cultural beliefs because in communications the differences in how each perceives said communications lead to conflicts of varying levels, nature and severities. 

Psychological aspects of humans, in general, all deal with how the mind effects and leads the body and how the body through experiences takin in through the sensory systems effects and leads our minds for a mind-body/body-mind principle applied to self-fense. 

What I am trying to say is don’t just assume teachings take care of psychological aspects of humans in conflict and violence but allow this aspect to help you achieve your goals in teaching and learning. This is what makes the whole of self-defense hard to teach and why so many gravitate to the easier teachings, technique based. 

Just a bit of mindless meanderings toward theories, hypothesis and a synthesis of something that may or may not hold water in the end, i.e., something to think about, consider, test, evaluate, test and evaluate again over and over again until it either gets absorbed or gets discarded, the way of learning. 

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