“If you wish to control your opponent, you must first control yourself”
Musashi Miyamoto
Have you been able to control your own mind and body?
When you try to move your body, does it move how you want it to?
When you want to make certain movements, is your body moving properly?
Is your mental state how you want it to be all the time?
Are you not letting the negative emotions control you, like your fear and laziness stopping you from what you really want to do, and stopping you from growing?
Or is your anger taking over your mind and are you making silly decisions?
Our own mind and body are the only things that should be 100% under our control.
We can’t control other people or any other things, but if we can control our own mind and body, that affects other things around you.
For example,
If you control yourself, act well, and challenge yourself, and be a good role model, that will inspire other people and affect people around you.
Fighting is the same.
If you can control your own mind and body, that will affect your opponent and the fight, so that determines if you can win or not.
Great Samurai, Musashi Miyamoto said in his book “Gorin no Sho 五輪書 Book of Five Rings”
“If you wish to control your opponent, you must first control yourself”
You can control your own mind and body if you have good determination, and that will give great affects to all around you.
That determines your own life too!!
