Martial Mental Fitness

If you have followed my thread on the mind you already know that movement is tied to the physical and mental so now we will delve into the mental fitness arena. 

It is critical we equally, balance, our minds, body and thus our spirit, we must purposely train and exercise our minds to have mental, psychological, fitness. 

We spend a good deal of time in the physical development and we must take the mental out of the assumption and into a conscious and purposeful. 

Skills of the mind are important to the skills of the body because the science and research has fully and completely validated and proven that the body, movement, feeds the mind and the mind through movement feeds the body. Appropriate mind-body skills builds and maintains one’s spirit. All the skills necessary to master karate.

If that is not enough for you just know that through this effort you “Live longer”  and that the skill and effort to achieve higher learning and to constantly challenge our minds, in and out of the dojo, gives us a longer life.

Mental exercises strengthen and renews Brian connections to keep our brains flexible and resilient. 

It is easy for us to develop routines and that is a good thing, but to keep our brains, our minds, flexible and capable we have to continue learning, practicing and experiencing “New Mental Tasks.”

Learn:

1. To play a musical instrument,
2. To dance,
3. To repair various mechanical and technical devices,
4. Learn to challenge remembering (memory skills),
5. Challenge yourself to learn,

We need to constantly and consciously challenge our minds to learn new things!

Remember that it is not just through academia, but through experiences and thoughts and actions (movement) and emotion that are brains achieve the highest state of health, fitness and plasticity.

It is a way we strengthen our neural pathways through mental exercise. It is how we solve problems and issues creatively, how we are able think about new ways to create, morph and play in new ways that for the karate-ka results in masterful skills that are fluid in nature to change and things change.

What is great here is that those mental skills are fundamental; and you benefit whether it is focused on karate or on other endeavors, because the skills and benefits do not set on anything other than brain renewal and The minds fundamental skills, that work for any endeavor regardless.

Just remember, “Physical and mental action (movement) is fundamental to maintaining mental health.”