Martial Arts for Disabled Warriors

I am going to congratulate you now.  Right here at the start.  The very fact that you have picked up a book about martial arts for those students who are injured means that you have a highly inquisitive mind.  

 A mind that is curious allows a person to step away from the ‘cattle’ mentality that exists in every culture. 

 Cattle mentality is a psychological disposition in which you do what you are told.  You don’t think original thoughts.  You think the same thoughts as those around you.  

 That is not necessarily a bad thing.  

 We are social creatures. It is how we survive as a species. We are designed to move through our day as one community of people.  It is what has allowed humans to remain alive and thrive against more powerful forest creatures and overcome natural disasters that would wipe out individuals who remained isolated and apart from their community.  

 A community is strong.  

However, there is a negative side effect to gaining group strength. When a person thinks like others, then that individual develops a logical process of thought that eliminates anything that doesn’t look like, sound like and act like everyone else.  

 We call this mental process, ‘prejudice.’