[Notice: The series are a personal effort in understanding the brain/mind and how it will apply to my life and practice of the fighting/marital arts. Any errors or omissions are mine alone and do not reflect on the sources from which I draw my thoughts and understanding. If you find any please allow me the human condition of making errors and provide me the information I need to learn, grow, and prosper.]
There are both physical and mental consequences to due diligence for self defense. What I am trying to say here in mind/brain training is the training itself must not carry over into moment by moment of daily life. There is a time to practice and a time to not practice.
Clarity, we can train and practice to achieve the knowledge and experience to achieve some semblance of control of such things as discussed in this series yet once we accumulate the knowledge and experience we NEED to let it go.
The human body will use its instinctual ability to use what you have learned and then provide you signals so you can become alert and mindful of some situation that needs your attention. To keep your self on high alert at all times when outdoors means you will suffer both physical and mental consequences.
To keep the types of stimulation going over long terms results in health problems such as those associated with the gastrointestinal, immune, cardiovascular and endocrine. Then there are the mental consequences such as anxiety and depression. The physical manifestations:
1. Gastro: ulcers, colitis, irritable bowel syndrome, diarrhea, and constipation.
2. Immune: colds and flus, slowed healing, and vulnerability to infections.
3. Cardio: hardening of the arteries and heart attacks.
4. Endocrine: diabetes, premenstrual syndrome, erectile disfunction, lowered libido.
Beware of the distance you take training and practice. Never lose site that in all you do there are opposites that must be brought into balance. To remain in one side or the other for extended periods results in many effects to health and well being not to mention over extending the training benefits.
If you go all out say in "shugyo" then also take the time after to release the effects. It is like drinking a cup of coffee daily. You drink one cup of coffee you have to balance that out with at least one cup of water, sometimes two to one to keep your level of hydration balanced.
Bibliography:
Hanson, Rick and Mendius, Richard. The Practical Neuroscience of Buddha's Brain: Happiness, Love & Wisdom. Oakland: New Harbinger Publications, Inc. 2009.
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