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Five Rings Training’s launches its innovative new Training Series with award-winning screenwriter Patrick Wilde; The Language of Life.   At a time when so many people are finding life significantly challenging we’ve honed in on the most primary opportunity for change in Human Behaviours: Linguistic Discipline, and have built an empowering new coaching and training series explaining how to build linguistic discipline and use your control of language to bring about radical change in both your inner and outer worlds.  Check out the modalities for Leadership, Corporate and Organisational Culture, Relationships and Personal Wellbeing on the Five Rings’ site:  https://www.fiveringstraining.com/language As a Human Behaviour, Language is one of our most powerful Creative Faculties. Yet, without careful awareness, mind-set training and linguistic discipline, our Language can play the part of Destroyer instead of Builder in our lives and in the lives of those we lead, and of th...

by Kirsty Henderson | Five Rings Training:     One topic which has fascinated me for years is  why  as a martial artist do I experience time differently  and why does time slow down so much during fighting?   Are you a martial artist who has experienced that sudden slowing down of time right in the middle of a high-speed interaction, with time becoming slow enough for you to assess your options?   If so, you are not alone.      Time bends to the number of faculties being used Humans experience time differently during experiences in which more faculties are being used. In short, if we increase our faculty use we increase our time.    In martial arts training terms this means the more you push to expand your training capacity, the more of your faculties are available to you, and hence the more opportunity you have for slowing down your perception of time.     Time Theories There are many theories why humans ex...

Over the next few months we're running a series of Q&As and posting the answers here so everyone can benefit. Some of the topics are subject specific, others will be of interest to all. QUESTION 01: How can I triangulate and balance these 3 things: The desire to push myself to grow vs feeling guilty for resting vs becoming totally exhausted? ANSWER: When we train hard we work our system at every level and in particular our muscles. The next day we feel the work done by way of stiffness or soreness and have to take the time to stretch, nourish and replenish. We know if we overwork our muscles we do damage not only to our muscle tissue but to the attainment of our long term goals. This, in some small way, teaches us to play the long game. It’s playing the long game which gets us our best results.  This is exactly the same with the brain. When we work the brain hard with continuous cognitive processing and output we are effectively working a muscle. However in menta...