When Defense Becomes
a Part of You

by mimi4
(United States)

Learning dim mak pressure points after an actual self defense situation is a very good idea for the purpose of defense but more for the purpose of restoring my person should I become injured and am in need of healing myself.

When I was in my early twenties, I was faced with a male that I knew that had a tendency to become angry very quickly with others including me.

Nearing the end of our brief relationship, he began showing a more aggressive side and then, on the day that I had decided to no longer have anything to do with him for those reasons, he started an argument and he lacked any sort of control.

When I had entered and closed the bathroom door to dress and prepare to leave, he entered the room, shut the door behind him and we were therefore confined in about 48 or so square feet of space.

He became so angered that he raised a hand toward my face and that is where I blocked his hand, pushing it out of the way and then raising my foot and pushing him off balance. This sent his rear end toward his tub, his hand grasping for his towel rack which came off the wall.

Uninjured, he commenced to getting up and preparing to attempt a more violent attack but that ended as a friend of ours had entered the apartment and had heard something going on in the bathroom and came in and was able to help calm the guy down.

During that experience, I learned many things:

1. Once practice and meditation has become a normal or regular part of you, your mind and spirit are ready to do what is necessary at the right time.

2. Although one may stop a potential confrontation it may not truly be over.

3. Had I not known a few basics to blocking with my hands and kicking/pushing with my foot I would have been injured and been a victim to an out-of-control person.

I am one that has never chosen that harm come to anyone especially should a position of confrontation occur. But this was a good lesson for me as I have known since that time that should the confronter not wish to give up his fight that I may someday have to do what I would not normally choose to do in order to stop a situation from advancing into a more dangerous one.

To this day, I never knew that I would ever experience such an event but I am glad that I did. But and still, because the situation could have been worse should our friend not intervened, after all these years I have taken up the study of Dim Mak as an additional protective measure not solely for the purpose of defense but more for the purpose of restoring my person should I become injured and am in need of healing myself.