I'm currently undertaking an online course in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help me unravel the Gordian knot described in "Suicidal thoughts". Part of this is to practice three sets of techniques each day to help with mindfulness and relaxation. Basically you have:
- Awareness, going through each part of your body in turn to explore what you can feel
- Tensioning, tensing and relaxing muscles to help relieve tension
- Breathing, feeling each breath to bring you into the now and focus on the present
This reminds me of a lot of the techniques I have learnt through Karate, such as the relaxation and cardio slow kata learnt with Robey Jenkins, the tensioning in Sanchin from PJ Broomy and the breathing learnt from Noah Legel, in Tensho.
As a result, and due to my need to get back into deliberately practice every day, I decided to see whether I could combine the two. So I perform Naihanchi Shodan, Sanchin and Tensho in sequence. Naihanchi, I perform slowly, paying attention to how my body moves and feels. Sanchin, I am currently experimenting with tensioning on 1 rep in 2 and 1 rep in three for the whole body and relaxing in between. In Tensho, it is a case of using the breathing much as is done in Mokuso, to empty the mind and come into the present.
The two videos shown are from the last couple of days, one with the 1 in 2 Sanchin, the other with the 1 in 3 Sanchin. Very much a work in progress, but ironic that I chose without thinking the three kata labelled as fundamental kata to Karate by Miyagi Chojun. I didn't even think about that until it was pointed out by PJ Broomy.
Will document how it goes in a later blog.
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