Why Learning Self Defense Enhances the Warrior Mindset

The warrior mindset is an inherent or learned approach to life that changes the way you handle challenges, setbacks, and hardships. Many people have just become too soft as a result of modern conveniences – being ‘domesticated’.

While most people have no need to fight or struggle, living a lifetime of comfort and indulgence continuously makes us weak and soft – so much so that when a challenge does come along, we are often ill-equipped to face it.

Adopting a warrior mindset means changing all that. It means toughening up, learning to live slightly harder and facing challenges. It also means learning to defend yourself.

No, you don’t need to be Bruce Lee or Batman, but you do need to know some basic self-defense and have an idea of how to look out for yourself. These are some crucial reasons why:

• Self Defense Helps You to protect Yourself

While we largely live during a time where violence and fighting is relatively rare (thankfully) it's quickly seeming as though there's a crest on the horizon, the reality is that sooner or later you'll still need to protect yourself. Whether you discover yourself trapped during a bar fight, or being attacked on the road way, the ability to defend yourself during these scenarios could mean the difference between life and death. It could mean the difference between having the power to protect your family and losing them.

• Self Defense Allows You to Feel Like an Alpha

Sometimes the advantage of self-defense isn't in its ability to help you win a fight but rather within the way it causes you to feel and thus the way it helps you to approach a situation.

Ultimately, the foremost ‘trump card’ in life is the ability and strength to take care of yourself. While you'd possibly be able to bargain with someone or pay them off to leave you or your family be, the fact remains, if the person you're facing off with is stronger, faster and subsequently more deadly then they have the last word say about how things go down.

Being able to physically fight, if necessary, gives you confidence and projected authority. It causes you to ‘alpha’ during a gaggle (yes this is also applicable to women too) and it means others can’t coerce you.

Having the power and desire to take care of yourself will allow you to act the way that you simply think is true and do so with minimal fear.

• Training Instils Self Discipline

Finally, learning to care of yourself is in and of itself incredibly useful. Training in martial arts is effective because you’ll have the opportunity to develop yourself both physically and mentally. One of the most important aspects of learning martial arts is that they specialize in self-discipline, using correct technique and staying calm during a stressful situation. By practicing the same kick over and over and by learning to ignore the opponent, you’ll start to see them only as an obstacle to be overcome.

When you transition this mindset to other aspects of your life, you’ll greatly increase your ability to get things done, stay calm and be master of your own destiny.

This is why everyone should learn to physically defend themselves.