Self-Mastery: a guide to achieve personal transformation

Learn how to master your mind, body and breathing from Rickson Gracie.

In this unit, Master Rickson Gracie will bring you his secrets to develop the mindset of a warrior and be ready to face any challenge. 

Learn in 24 lessons how to explore your inner self and identify some patterns of behavior that make you vulnerable.

How to change your mindset for better results:

The first step to master your emotions is to understand that the only thing you can control is inside of you, not outside.

When you don't control your thoughts, you tend to make decisions by impulse, which leads to negative reactions and results. 

Rickson combines this concept with the example of a huge storm, when the big hard trees don't have the flexibility to remain in a strong wind and fall, while the flexible trees can bend, so they're not going to be destroyed: "jiu-jitsu is something that always gave me the sense of I don't have to be too strong, but I have to be flexible, I don't have to be too fast, but I have to be technical… So those elements of techniques suppress speed, leverage suppresses strength, and flexibility adapt you and will make you feel like you're unbreakable because you can bend." 

Once you're on the path to master yourself with Brazilian jiu-jitsu (bjj), you will learn much more than self-defense:

Commit to yourself;

• Earn adaptability;

• Let your mind “flow with the go”;

• Transform your breathing;

• Control your thoughts and acts;

• Be more confident.

Live your life in flow and become unbreakable

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Flow with the go

Flow with the go

I keep in mind that jiu-jitsu is not a hard martial art, in which you have to impose your power. It’s something which combined more with the sense of in a huge wind storm, the big trees have more chance to fall, because they’re hard and tough, and the wind comes hard and knocks them down. The flexible trees can bend and still, like, forever, so they’re not going to be destroyed.

So, jiu-jitsu is always something that gives me that sense of: “I don't have to be too strong, but I have to be flexible, I don't have to be too fast, but I have to be technical.” So, those elements of technique suppresses speed, leverage suppresses strength and flexibility adapt you and make you feel like you don’t break, you’re unbreakable because you can bend. 

Those concepts make me feel like, when I'm engaged, I'm not there to break the tree; I'm there to just find myself comfortable in the mobility, in the sense of moving positions and being comfortable all the time. I have to flow with the energy, with the heal, with the real storm, which is in front of me.

And I'm not fighting, I'm just trying to educate myself to flow, to become sensitive enough to be in the best position for me and capitalize. So we have to flow not only in jiu-jitsu, but in life.

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