Pressure Points Dim Mak – Harnessing the Mental Edge

Hopefully you’re feeling a little inspired to continue forging ahead with your pressure points study, and looking at how you can improve your skills on both the physical and mental level. Reminding yourself of what got you interested, what motivated you to start the martial arts can re-ignite that interest.

Now let’s look at how your ability to focus and control your emotions works against your opponent in a self defence situation where you can get the optimum effectiveness from your Dim Mak.

Have a read through your Dim Mak resources (remember these are only available here on my website and nowhere else), look particularly at the pressure points themselves at the effects that they, when struck, have on emotions.

A physical strike anywhere can produce an emotional response instantaneously. A hard strike that produces severe physical pain will often strike fear or uncertainty into your attacker, if this is coupled with a point that actually intensifies this response, you’re a long way to extricating yourself from that situation.

Many people I have spoken to who have been involved in situations that have lead to violent physical attacks say that the person they fear most is the calm one, not the rushing angry person beside him.

Use this to your advantage. Be the calm one. The reason this is such a powerful strategy is that calmness means you are less likely to make a mistake, you are less likely to miss a hit, because your mind is not clouded by emotion.

Emotion actually reduces your ability to think straight, it makes it difficult to do more than react on a primeval level of flailing about, forgetting everything except that you are in danger and are likely to get hurt.

For Dim Mak to be as effective as possible you must draw on your knowledge, focus on where the points are, remember that while a missed point may affect your opponent, the aim of Dim Mak pressure point fighting is a fast, accurate method of stopping the violence.

You will also need to draw on the knowledge of how to hit the point, what points you are going to follow up with to maximise your success, your body position and so on.

Emotions cloud judgement and effectiveness, while calmness and focus are powerful tools, not only in improving your technical ability, but also in throwing your attacker off balance.

When someone comes at you on the attack, they expect you to respond with fear first, and sometimes anger. Why? Because the moment someone can affect your attitude they have some control over you, they have shown that they have some power.

Refusal to be affected, but to calmly assess the situation sends a message that you are not an easy target, that this incident may not go as well as your attacker thinks, that you have control of yourself and control of the situation, and that you are not going to be pushed around easily.

This is as powerful a part of Dim Mak pressure points training as any of the techniques and practical parts that you will learn. Together they give you an edge that so often inspires us in the movies, or in stories of elite sportspeople, that so often brings the good guys through at the end… a calm focus on what results they want, a focus that removes the clouds of emotion and puts control and power firmly back in their control.

Subscript…if you want to test this out, here’s a little exercise. Next time someone approaches you with negative emotions like anger, take note of the response it produces in you. Do you start to feel anger like them, do you look away a little frightened, do you become a little uncertain… now, take a deep breath, and smile at them confidently.

The usual response is one of two things, they look bewildered, or you’ll see their anger intensify, either way… you’ve now put them off balance, now how do you feel? I would take a guess that as soon as you produce a response in them, you start feeling better, stronger, less frightened. You have taken control back.

Please remember as with all Dim Mak or pressure points practices, use this test not to harm others, mentally, physically or emotionally. Use it to remind yourself that you can control your emotions and that focus and calmness are powerful tools.

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