non-physical training

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[treelizard]

LOL! See, my non-physical training is so good, that it's invisible!

Originally Posted by Mike Brewer

And non-printed suggestions?

[BoarSpear]

huh i guess i did alot of that back in school...the teachers called it daydreaming though hmph if only we had known nah teach, i aint daydreamin, im creativley visualizin my future... then as you got sent to office you could meditate on violence

[treelizard]

*Blush*

I was thinking more along the lines of analyzing common crimes and figuring out how to avoid them non-physically if possible. Awareness, de-escalation, verbal boundary setting, evaluating one's environment, making active choices about safety, figuring out someone's pathological before you end up alone in a room with them, stuff like that.

Originally Posted by Mike Brewer

You are indeed a master of the unseen. However, as a suggestion for the topic, I spend between nine and fifteen minutes per night actively visualizing various areas of my life. Sometimes I see fights or sparring matches and I get as detailed as I can with the movements, terain, and how I should win. At other times, I see myself teaching a class or succeeding in some other area. The more detailed and real I make it, the easier it gets to do it for real. It's like meditation of sorts, but I'm more or less focusing on driving my own outcomes toward my own ultimate success. I guess in a way, it simply prepares me, mind and body, spirit and emotion, for winning. Seems to be very effective...

[Garland]

Originally Posted by BoarSpear

then as you got sent to office you could meditate on violence

issues.

hehehe...

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I used to teach workshops on media bias and propaganda and I feel that media literacy is very very similar to skills needed for assessing predatory behavior... What kind of lines are being fed to you, etc. My last few stories of how I got home safely involve situational awareness, strategy, overcoming fear and positive mindset.

I know there is a course in Oregon called Self Defense from the Inside Out which focuses specifically on the non-physical, and I am going to try to get their workbook. Is anybody familiar with it? From what I have read, the class focuses on awareness, assertion vs. aggression, intuition and verbal skills.

I trained a couple of times with a group that focused on non-physical self-defense for the first half of their classes. We worked on roleplaying quite a bit. One exercise I remember was a roleplay and one person was the creep and the other was the receiver. The exercise was to stand up when you felt threatened. As the creep you could see what it feels like to push past someone's boundaries--this helped the women present realize that people KNOW when they are doing that. As a receiver the purpose was to hone intuition. Other exercises included verbal boundary setting (using the broken method technique) which seems pretty easy but you'd be surprised at how many people struggle with it! I also thought of incorporating some of the home security material on Marc MacYoung's website. Lastly, MY teacher from the Shinbikai Budo (who is AWESOME, btw, but unfortunately on the wrong coast) does scenario training in his class where they go over situations, come up with "what I would do" answers, and then debrief them.

I thought it would be fun to do this with actual "case studies," focusing on awareness, avoidance, de-escalation and escape...as well as color codes, and the law. And also to analyze statistics and crime prevention in our area as well as personal success stories, using books such as "Her Wits About Her."

Has anybody done anything like this? Any suggestion on other books, materials, resources, etc. to train with?

[Eyegouge]

At your local bookstore there is a relatively new book, it's yellow and called a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do I belive. I bought it for a girlfriend of mine. It talks allot about out-thinking situations of violence with women. It had some really great stuff that I thought was quite nicely written. I'm unsure of the title, but i remember it's yellow as a saftey sign.

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Anybody read "Her Wits About Her"?