Self-defence.
Whenever you hear these two words together, you think of danger and women in danger and children in danger and that is kind of the need of the hour as of now. But in my opinion, learning how to defend yourself should not be a skill to be learnt only when someone is in danger irrespective of gender and age because these skills teach you much more than just protecting yourself from outward harm.
Here are a few things self-defence skills will teach you besides the obvious objective of defending yourself.
1. It’ll help you trust your abilities and explore them at a physical and a mental level.
It’ll instill a confidence in you that comes from within when you trust yourself and rely on yourself for the responsibility of your own safety and welfare as well the faith that you can take care of others as well.
2. It’ll improve your focus on all aspects of your life.
It’ll make your perception much sharper than it is now and make you more thoughtful about everything you’ve known as yet and what is hidden from you. You mind becomes sharper as your senses become more trained.
3. You’ll become more aware and attentive towards all the happenings around you.
As your mind becomes sharper, you’ll grasp your surroundings in a much better manner and your reflexes will also become faster as you gain control over your body and your mind.
4. The value of respect as a virtue will become ingrained in your personality.
All martial arts or sports come with a set of rules which ensure discipline and preserve a few life values which should be a big part of a balanced person’s life. As you abide by these rules, you’ll learn discipline makes your freer than ever and you’ll learn to respect even your opponent.
5. It’ll help you in goal setting and goal managing.
As you become clearer with who you are and how you want to live, your goals will become lucid, clear and you’ll get better at planning at achieving them.
6. It’ll make you exert yourself physically which will result in all over fitness.
Keeping the mental exercises aside, learning martial arts is a physically gruelling and tough process and it is bound to make you physically fit and when you are physically and mentally fit, nothing can touch you.
7. You’ll meet other strong people who’ll inspire you.
Attending a self-defence class will definitely make your social skills blossom as you’ll meet other strong people and some looking for strength like you whose stories will drive you to always be a better version of yourself.
8. You’ll learn when to react and when not to.
You’ll learn that a knee jerk reaction never results in anything good and you learn to control anger and other behavioral flaws of humans and keep becoming a better human.
9. A warrior’s instinct will get imbibed in you.
You’ll become more alert and somewhat like a warrior whose instinct about things is never wrong and is always at the ready to take appropriate action according to the best possible decision taken.
10. Most importantly you’ll be exposed to a thought process which will transform as a person.
It’ll impart to you a thought process that’ll make you a completely different person, a more balanced person and most importantly a good person. 🙂
