In the previous post I talked about tactics you can use to progress in your wing chun training. The physical process of grinding through the training and tips to improve. In this second part conclusion I talk about the mindset you need need to develop to really hit the top marks in wing chun:
The number one foundation of wing chun is conditioning…just by training you will physically condition your body…however you need to condition your mind to allay your fears and condition yourself to overcome your fears. Overcoming your fears comes with repetition and practice…unfortunately to exercise this muscle is not about showing greater courage there is more to it than that..
To overcome this ..the downside is that you must face fearful situations and get use to plowing though them..it isn’t easy..and doesn’t get any easier ..however once accomplished you realise that all of the fears you once had ..where not all that bad at all.
Until the next hurdle come your way then the fear grips again….it is only the knowledge that you have overcome your fears on previous occasions that you can gain strength to move through that fear.
We all have confidence in what we know and what we can do this is known as our comfort zone…unfortunately there I no growth in this territory…We need to move out of the known territory in to the darkened unknown to expand our sphere of knowledge and competence …otherwise stagnating comes in and we won’t grow.
We now in the past that we have overcome adversity we have done it so many times in the past…it doesn’t make sense to have this fear well up again…
Well that emotion is not logical …particularly fear…and when the mind is confronted with a logical argument vs fear…the emotion..
The emotion will always win our hands down…. Its just how the minds works.
All we can do is know logically know we have been here before and we can overcome.
