Training The Mind For Fear Control

It’s just as important to train your mind as it is to exercise your body. You will always be defeated if your body is powerful but your mentality is weak. A well-trained mind will help you cope with the tension and suffering of a physical encounter. You will benefit significantly from understanding the body and learning how to control the sensation of adrenaline build-up when under stress. Understanding how adrenaline works helps to reduce its potency. If you don’t understand how adrenaline works, it can be frightening. If you don’t comprehend what’s going on, this unpleasant and overwhelming emotion can make you freeze in panic. Don’t panic is the key to adrenaline; it’s not simple, but the adrenal syndrome must be treated and understood before it can be harnessed and exploited.

Adrenaline acts like a turbocharger in a car, allowing you to choose between fight or flight, but you must know how to use it for your own good. If it isn’t used for action, panic sets in, and the energy is wasted.

To help control adrenaline in a confrontational situation, deep breathing and knowledge will help.

Training The Mind For Fear Control

When a situation arises that causes the adrenaline to flow we are so unfamiliar with the feeling we panic, so this is why we have to train it and get used to the feeling, so we can get used to it. Psychologists call it the Fight or Flight” syndrome. In the moment of danger, the body injects chemicals (hormones) into the bloodstream to prepare the body for fight or flight. Adrenaline is the best know, but there is a whole cocktail of chemicals (Epinephrene, norepinephrine, and dopamine). These chemicals help strengthen the body and make the brain more alert, and some are natural pain killers.

The advantages of these chemicals are:

• Additional Strength;
• Increased pain threshold;
• Increased awareness.

Some disadvantages are:

• A dry mouth;
• Increased pupil dilation;
• A broken or high pitched voice;
• Nervous tension;
• General clumsiness;
• Loss of motor skills;
• Muscle twitching and shaking.

Other effects are;

• Visual slow down. This is a distortion of time; everything seems to be happening in slow motion;
• Auditory exclusion. You may get a high pitched ringing, or the sound seems to fade away;
• Psychological splitting. This is best described as an out-of-body experience, where the person sees himself outside his body.

There are many more effects, if you want to know more I suggest you read a good book on self-protection ‘Dead or Alive’ by Geoff Thompson or ‘Streetwise’ by Peter Consterdine are two excellent books for anyone interested in personal safety.