Lately I have had an interest in martial arts, Lord knows I could use the exercise. I went to a judo school that's on the way home from work one evening. There were some gentleman grappling pretty hard on the mat. An instructor was working with the group, telling them what to do, which hold to go to next, etc. I was watching them a few minutes, and another instructor came over, sat down, and we visit a couple of minutes. Nice fella and all. But I noticed in the grappling they use their knees a lot as leverage in order to get someone into a hold.
The instructor and I are visiting, and I asked him about that. He asked why I would mention that.
Well have you ever been kneed in the balls, I asked?
He told me "Oh, you get used to that".
So I explained I didn't think judo was for me.
There are other forms of martial arts, there have been some tv shows on discovery channel lately, one that looked interesting was brazilian jui-jitzu. The moves in this martial art form appeared to me as though it would really lend itself well to a person who was wanting to exercise and work with both sides of the body.
Dr Roerich started an interesting thread several months ago about the subject of hemispherical lateralization. I believe it was called left side of the brain struggling to make sense of right brain, or something worded close it.
If you do a google search, type in ptsd hemispherical lateralization, quite a bit of stuff pops up.
Have a good day!

I think martial arts are good for another reason. If you can handle yourself in a tight spot, and you really, really know it, your anxiety level might not be on a chronic red alert status.

WOW!!

I am truly touched by your life! There are so many reflections! I need to think and absorb all of this! I would like to congratulate you on your openess and the time you have taken to allow others' to share in your journey. You are a brave and wonderful soul indeed, and your story in parts resonates with me.

I am thinking............

Thank you

Spirit x

This is really remarkable. Thank you for sharing your story. I've got a lot to think about, having read this.

Cowgirl

thank you for your post!!!
i assume fish oil too, i began to take it because i read on a book of "zone diet" that it helps to control the "blockers of insuline". i suffer of hypoglicemy, so i thought it could help me to regolate my insuline levels and i noted that the fish oil was not only doing that, but i was feeling better with my mind too, i had less losses of memory and i felt less stressed. then i read an article where they said that insuline resistance, losses of memory and alzheimer are connected...(northwestern university)...this means that fish oil influences positively the connections betweens all the cells, the menthal ones too, not only the ones involved in methabolism.
during the years i have been developing a method of my own to feel better, based on my personal experience, on scientific readings, on my will to feel better and happy..
i found a real benefit in martial arts too (and in sports in general), above all in the forms, me too!!! ( i practice tae kwon do and hap ki do)
i also developed a "problem solving algorithm" to face all my problems and, throught it, i focalized many things...
i would like to tell you all the things i have been descovering during the yaers...
one day i will do!!!!!
anthony, thank you, thank you very much!!!

for the ones who are interested with the article i was talking about, dealing with relations between loss of memory, insuline resistance and alzheimer, you can find it on: FASEB Journal; it is a on line journal, and the article is by Dr. William Klein.