Welcome back!This is a guest post from Oscar Del Ben. Oscar is the publisher of Freestyle Mind, one of the classiest personal development blogs on the web. In this article he talks about internal motivation in the martial arts and touches upon some of my favourite subjects, including fear and visualiztion. I hope you enjoy [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Visualization'
The Importance Of Internal Motivation In The Martial Arts
January 27th, 2010 · Comments · Personal Development
Tags: Development·Fear·FreestyleMind·Martial Success·Visualization
Free Mind Training Guide
November 12th, 2009 · Comments · Mind Training
Today I am happy to be releasing my new guide to mind training for martial artists. The little e-book, entitled Mind Training for Martial Artists is based upon a series of articles I did on this blog recently and I’m giving it away to anyone who subscribes to my RSS feed. If you [...]
Tags: Free E-Book·Martial Success·Meditation·Psychology·Visualization
Breaking Out Of The Training Comfort Zone
September 14th, 2009 · Comments · Training Advice
We all seem to love a nice comfort zone, don’t we? Comfort zones are like little sanctuaries that welcome us in for a cosy chat and a nice cup of tea. We feel all safe and warm in our little comfort zones, secure in the knowledge that nothing or no one is going [...]
Tags: Comfort Zones·Development·Martial Success·Motivation·Psychology·Visualization
Mind Training for Martial Artists| Part 3: Visualization
August 12th, 2009 · Comments · Mind Training
“When confronted by a situation that appears fragmented, step back, close your eyes and envision perfection where you saw brokenness. Go to the inner place where there is no problem and abide in the consciousness of well-being.” –Alan Cohen
“I train myself mentally with visualization. The morning of a tournament, before I put my [...]
Tags: Development·Martial Success·Mastery·Street Defense·Visualization
Top Training Tip #1
May 25th, 2009 · Comments · Training Advice
Are you struggling to learn a technique? Can’t quite get the moves down no matter how hard you try? Don’t worry, here’s a handy NLP inspired training tip to help you make some forward progress.
Start by getting yourself comfortable. Either lie down or just sit comfortably in a chair. Any where you can get nice [...]
How to Train Smarter and Master Martial Arts
April 29th, 2009 · Comments · Training Advice
To master martial arts is a somewhat arduous and unrelentingly repetitive process. You turn up at the dojo, you do what you do and then you leave until the next time, perhaps clocking up three or four sessions in a week. You do this for long enough, over a period of years and eventually – [...]
Tags: Development·Discipline·Mastery·Meditation·Technique·Visualization
How to Get Over Injury Misery
April 22nd, 2009 · Comments · General
If you have never been injured in your training then you have never really trained properly in the martial arts. To train in the martial arts for any length of time is to endure all manner of aches, sprains, bone breaks, muscle pulls, ligament strains, whiplash etc. Martial arts, by there very nature, involve inflicting [...]
