Threat Management - Is It Really Possible To Relax?
Personal safety and an environment of security are important to cultivate, and the pursuit of such skills can consume inordinate blocks of time. It must be worth such an expenditure of time since it can't be known when or if such skills allow one to continue living. Survival means a continued existence. By inference, constant training for defensive skills should yield the greatest likelihood for survival - of winning a fight. It tends to make it rather difficult to argue that anything should ever be done other than train for a fight. I can't think of a reason to do otherwise - except that there are reasons, not ones that can be prioritized but ones that are part of what makes winning a fight worth winning.
Sometimes it becomes important to evaluate where progress has occurred, what further skills are next to be learned, schedule further progress and then just stop for one or many moments. Those pauses are more important than the progression; reflective thinking gives meaning to all that has been accomplished and those next steps to take once it is time to go back to work. Sometimes life should just be enjoyed. If a backgrounding in security is present, then it will be available if needed. Get a dog on a leash to be alert so you don not have to be. Stare at what is visible in your surroundings. The bloom of a flower. A hummingbird near a bush. Sunlight filtering through a cedar tree. A mind can be idle, indeed it must to rest and absorb those moments when not thinking allow recovery. Even wolves just sit and do nothing sometimes.
Allow thoughts to drift through sights and senses rather than using this time for some kind of studied, logical progression of what perhaps should be a rational preoccupation. Vacate all of that. The benefit is in what is not happening. That which doesn't pollute your consciousness leaves a void where something of much greater value can enter. Relaxation. It is a difficult concept to use effectively as it is so foreign to many people. It would seem counterproductive to waste time, yet that is sometimes the best use of time, by just letting it go.
The world will intrude soon enough and all those things that should be done will reappear, bringing a reality with them that once again will have to be addressed. This time, advice is emanating from an extremely poor practitioner of this concept as my knowledge of relaxation is virtually absent. It has become so important to find that I have decided to attempt a search for it. There seems no real value to living if the value of living is not even recognized. As a wolf, I can kill and keep someone else alive. I should now learn why living is important. At the least, I may be able to relax for a few moments as the rest of the world passes by.
Sometimes it becomes important to evaluate where progress has occurred, what further skills are next to be learned, schedule further progress and then just stop for one or many moments. Those pauses are more important than the progression; reflective thinking gives meaning to all that has been accomplished and those next steps to take once it is time to go back to work. Sometimes life should just be enjoyed. If a backgrounding in security is present, then it will be available if needed. Get a dog on a leash to be alert so you don not have to be. Stare at what is visible in your surroundings. The bloom of a flower. A hummingbird near a bush. Sunlight filtering through a cedar tree. A mind can be idle, indeed it must to rest and absorb those moments when not thinking allow recovery. Even wolves just sit and do nothing sometimes.
Allow thoughts to drift through sights and senses rather than using this time for some kind of studied, logical progression of what perhaps should be a rational preoccupation. Vacate all of that. The benefit is in what is not happening. That which doesn't pollute your consciousness leaves a void where something of much greater value can enter. Relaxation. It is a difficult concept to use effectively as it is so foreign to many people. It would seem counterproductive to waste time, yet that is sometimes the best use of time, by just letting it go.
The world will intrude soon enough and all those things that should be done will reappear, bringing a reality with them that once again will have to be addressed. This time, advice is emanating from an extremely poor practitioner of this concept as my knowledge of relaxation is virtually absent. It has become so important to find that I have decided to attempt a search for it. There seems no real value to living if the value of living is not even recognized. As a wolf, I can kill and keep someone else alive. I should now learn why living is important. At the least, I may be able to relax for a few moments as the rest of the world passes by.
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