I know about meditating and curious to know does it take pain. Meaning does it avoid you being in a lot of pain during a fight and keep you cool ?
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what exactly is it you think you know about meditating?
meditation can help you calm yourself, and focus on the task ahead of you, but it’s not going to magically numb your body. adrenaline allows you to ignore a hit which normally would hurt, but theres no way to completely ignore pain as in not feel it, the closest thing is to learn mind over matter which means just not to think about the and force it from your mind.
lol, Jie Li meditation is not a philosophy, it is a way of achieving a certain state of mind, typically referred to zen. being clear minded, but can also be used to help focus on a task or a problem.
There are many different kinds of meditation and reasons why people do it. It does not numb your body as the last person said. Otherwise all kinds of people would be doing it. I use meditation to calm myself, to clear my thoughts, to sync my breathing with my body. I think you should look up the concept of “MUSHIN”. I think that may be more of what you are looking for. All of this stuff takes time, sometimes years. Its something that you just cannot do without experience.
in a fight your not going to feel any pain because of the large flow of adrenaline. You’ll feel it but it wont bother you, unless of course you do something serious enough to cause a tremendous amount of pain. Some fighters do yoga, and meditate to get into the right mind set. and to clear their emotions, and feelings.
…meditation is a type of philosophy not pain killer …
It has nothing to do with pain. It’s about relaxing the mind. I think it can be a good thing to do but theres been a couple fighters that got the crap beat out of them bc they thought they just needed to meditate in place of hard training. There was a judo guy named yoshida in pride who was totally cleaning house (against good competition I might add) and arm barring everyone and then he decides to quit training and just meditate. He got hurt really bad and hasn’t been the same fighter since. SO TRAIN HARD
the only thing i can think of if one doesn’t feel the pain is when one has a flare up of the zeal during the fight. Normally the pain kicks in after the fight is over because that’s when you realize what just happened. on the other hand, meditation won’t help to prevent any kind of pain you are going to take. But it does heal the pain if it already happened. it also helps to calm your mind so that your mind don’t wander thinking too much, especially to overcome anxiety, nervousness… easier said than done! practice.
Well Tab similar questions have been asked before so you can do a search on my answers if you like about meditating and visualization for fighting. For what it is worth here is my spin and what I know.
The mind controls everything and the more relaxed and focused you are at doing or accomplishing something the better your performance usually. They did a study with the TKD Olympic team at the Olympic training center and found that meditation and visualization for those team members improved their fighting and performance. I can tell you from personal experience that once you have some one beat mentally it is twice as easy to beat them physically. I have fought a number of people in several types of fighting that were as good as or better than me but did not know it and did not have the right mental approach for it and it was that which made the difference.
Fighting is 80% mental and 20% physical for an experienced fighter and if you talk to an inexperienced fighter they will often ask themselves “why didn’t I do this” or “why did I not do that” after the fight is over. Then it is to late of course and an experienced fighter will keep his head and not panic and think of those things while an inexperienced fighter often won’t.
At the same time your body will physically give out way before your mind does and it is your mind that pushes and forces your body on to keep trying or to keep going. Fighting is a tough, hard business but if you talk to a pro he will tell you that it is considerably easier for him when he has the right mental approach and more experience than when he was lesser experienced and lacked the right mental approach. Having the right mental approach can help keep you relaxed and conserve energy that you will later need as well as give you the ability to focus and execute things better and to make adjustments when and as needed.
Staying focused pre-fight will help you in the fight. If meditation is right for you then that’s a good way to stay on track. The only way to take pain during a fight is by being mentally tough. You already know there’s a possibility you’ll take a hard shot or you’ll be getting choked or kicked during the fight. Blocking out the pain and continuing to fight makes you tough. Some guys got it and some don’t. They fold during adversity.