The Mental Edge, Revised [Paperback]

Loren W. Christensen (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 150 pages
• Publisher: Desert Pubns; Revised edition (January 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0879471883
• ISBN-13: 978-0879471880
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #536,767 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Mr. Christensen began training in the martial arts in 1965 and continues to this day. Over the years he has earned a total of 11 black belts, eight in karate, two in jujitsu and one in arnis. As a result of his tour in Vietnam and nearly three decades in law enforcement, Mr. Christensen's focus in the martial arts - writing, teaching and training - has always been on street survival, not competition. He has starred in seven martial arts training videos.

In August of 2011, Mr. Christensen was inducted into the martial arts Masters Hall of Fame in Anaheim, California, receiving The Golden Life Achievement Award.

As a professional writer since 1978, Mr. Christensen has penned 46 published books with five publishers, dozens of magazine articles, and edited a police newspaper for nearly eight years. He has written on the martial arts, missing children, street gangs, school shootings, workplace violence, riots, police-involved shootings, nutrition, exercise, prostitution, and various street subcultures. His first first fiction--Dukkha: An Eye for an Eye--was recently published by YMAA Publications.

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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful, February 3, 2000

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This review is from: The Mental Edge, Revised (Paperback)

This incredible little book contains the mental techniques that the author, a renown martial arts instructor, has found to be extremely effective in his teaching, writing, personal training, and in real-life application during his 29 years in law enforcement. "I have used these techniques for many years now," he says, "and I'm still impressed and sometimes amazed at how well they work."

Christensen takes you through the process of developing your own mental edge detailing techniques of relaxation, self-hypnosis, and mental imagery to help you develop discipline, defeat fear, and bring out the very best that you are capable of.

The techniques in this book are easy to learn, easy to use, and when coupled with mental preparedness (also taught in the book), you will be equipped with skills to face most anything that happens out in the mean streets. Whether it's an opponent in karate or judo competition, or a self defense situation against an attack on the street when you least expect it, this book will help you be ready.

While THE MENTAL EDGE was written from the perspective of a martial artist for martial artists, it's applications can be used by anyone seeking to develop a powerful mental edge.

CONTENTS

How To Get Mentally Relaxed How The Conscious And Subconscious Mind Works Easy Self-Hypnosis How To Deal With Fear How To Be Mentally Prepared To Fight How to Be Mentally Alert And Aware Be The Best You Can Be The Clear Mind Mental Combat Principles

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Holy Grail of Mental Martial Arts Training ... for me at least, April 14, 2007

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Robert "Vampyre Kiss" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Mental Edge, Revised (Paperback)

After finishing this fantastic book I wrote Loren Christensen to thank him for writing this. I can't believe I waited so long to get this book. But, who knows if I would have been in the right state of mind years back to really understand and use what I learned.

In my e-mail to Mr. Christensen I told him that this was really one of the most therapeutic books I've ever read. As I read the chapter about fear my past issues about fighting came to the surface. Things became clear. And so help me I felt taller after. I felt like a weight was lifted. The questions he recommends you ask yourself really helped.

I read this book w/ a totally open mind ready to apply everything I could. Amazon kept me waiting for over a month so I throw my self into this book out of excitement to finally have it.

There was a book I read before this one called "What makes tough guys tough". I thought it would answer my questions about being tough and fear. Really it didn't. In fact it left me wanting or should I say needing more. The book {Tough guys book} left you feeling like there maybe no way of getting the aggression you may need in a fight if you didn't have it at Birth. BUT! This book actually has a exercise to release that inner fury. Thank you Mr. Christensen.

This is going to be one of my all time top 10. Don't let the size of the book throw you. In truth I think authors that can write amazing work in under 200 pages and a rare breed -- and some of the best.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book packed with easy-to-use techniques, March 21, 2009

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This review is from: The Mental Edge, Revised (Paperback)

In this easy-to-read book, the author pulls no punches. In plain English, he explains how to use relaxation, suggestion, and imagery to improve your martial arts training (and your life).

There are lots of books out there describing how to incorporate hypnosis into your training routine. Many are more technically written. Loren tells you what you need to know and decribes how to do it without the jargon!

As a licensed counselor and hypnotherapist, I use the same type of techniques described in this book both with my clients and in my own martial arts training. They are very effective!