Most women in society are told while growing up to be 'good girls'. To do what they are told to do, never to argue, fight or play rough! But this certainly undermines women's confidence and mental health as they grow up in the world today. Much of the upbringing traditions came about in a world that was very different from the one we inhabit today. There's much more pressure, exposure and complexity between the masculine-feminine dynamic today at a larger scale than it was hundreds or even thousands of years ago.
You can't just simply be a 'good girl' and do whatever others tell you. Some may give you advise with good will from the bottom of their hearts. While others can have hidden intentions and motivations behind what they are telling you to do.
This is where training in combat can improve your mental health:
- First improvement to women's mental health: Mind-Body connection
The body and the mind are connected with each other in such a way that the state of one impacts the other. Remember a time when you had a heartbreak? You know that how you felt and what you thought changed the way your body felt to you and your motivation to be in life. At the same time you know how much energy you feel when you get good news, or fall in love, or when you celebrate an occasion.
How your body moves and the state that it is in, can also impact your mood and your thoughts. Thus if you want to change your thoughts, sometimes you just got to get up and move your body!
Women who've trained in combat find improvement in their connection with their bodies and they begin to trust that their body will handle impact, pressure and speed. They feel that they can rely on themselves to take action towards the life which they want to create and be able to take on the challenges which may come their way.
- Second Improvement to women's mental health: Social Confidence
Going out for women is a very different experience than going out for men. Women get approached more by A-Holes than men getting approached by women. Situations are more threatening and they can be more vulnerable than most men in the streets. With that comes a choice. Whether to dim your light as a woman and just try to stay in the background so that you avoid unwanted attention (which doesn't often work), or be who you are!
When women train in combat, they feel more confident in being themselves in social settings. There's no reason for them to hide away from embodying who they are because they fear the unwanted attention or male dominance. For they know, if ever a man was to step out of line in the bar, then her face will be the last thing he sees.
- Third but not final improvement: Safety to be her feminine self.
If you never trained in combat, you may think that you'd becoming more masculine and dress more like a man. But the reverse is actually the truth. Women that have trained in combat find inner safety and peace in being feminine with themselves and with others. They have strongly connected with their inner protector self, and they trust that they will rise to the occasion when they need to. Yet in their daily life, they know they can drop their guard and be the woman that they wanted to feel from within!
All people have a mix of both masculine and feminine elements. Women can be very feminine and their inner feminine finds great peace when their inner protector masculine is also in alignment with who they are and what they do. It is combat training that supports them in forming a healthy relationship with their inner protector masculine.
- Conclusion
These are just three of the many benefits which you'll find in combat training. We know that in the modern world, such training and benefits can't just be for men. But must be normalised for both genders.
I personally train women from all walks of life to defend themselves and their loved ones. grow in confidence and improve their mental and physical health.
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Yet as always, thank you for reading and until we meet again.
Yours always,
Solomon
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