What does it feel like to stand on a broken bridge 8 meters above the ground, cross a narrow bridge deck and fly over a gap 1.8 meters wide?
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The above is the content of the first military psychological and behavioral training course of our army.
Psychologists believe that due to the particularity of military occupation, the physical load and psychological load far exceed the level of ordinary people, and it is easy to produce adverse psychological reactions such as tension, self-blame and loss of confidence. Soldiers who fail to meet the mental health standards of military personnel account for a considerable proportion. In the Gulf War, the Kosovo War and the Afghanistan War, the non-combat attrition caused by psychological problems greatly exceeded the combat attrition.
For soldiers, healthy psychology is as important as healthy body. Appropriate and scientific psychological education and guidance is conducive to the psychological maturity and stability of soldiers and to maintaining the improvement of combat effectiveness of troops.
Therefore, using scientific training means and brand-new training equipment is not only an effective method and scientific practice to develop the psychological potential of officers and men, but also a useful exploration and comprehensive innovation to strengthen and improve ideological and political work under the new situation.
One afternoon in spring, the reporter walked into the General Staff Communication Training Brigade and experienced this novel, nervous, thrilling and exciting psychological and behavioral training for military personnel.
Military mental health standards
Intelligence test is normal: observation ability, memory ability, imagination ability, thinking ability and operation ability are normal.
Positive and stable emotions: leading happy emotions, clear emotional incentives, and good emotional control ability.
Sound will quality: conscious, brave, decisive, tenacious and independent.
Correct self-cognition: self-cognition, self-confidence, self-esteem and self-control ability.
Good adaptation to the environment: proper words and deeds: psychological and behavioral performance is consistent with the expectations of the environment for their corresponding ages. Can face the reality: objectively perceive and accept the reality, and actively solve the conflict between itself and environmental requirements.
Harmonious interpersonal relationship: willing to communicate, understand, accept, respect and trust others, with the spirit of unity and cooperation.
Courage is experienced in high altitude.
Standing in the sky, Li Yongnan trembled and shouted, "Are you ready? I am going to jump! " With a clang, his hand firmly grasped the pole, just like grasping a lifeline. "It worked!" Comrades cheered, and Li Yongnan calmly returned to the ground in an excited state.
In the warm sunshine, 40 heroic men and women soldiers lined up neatly on the training ground. They face Wang, the captain of the second lieutenant women's volleyball team, and Liu Yang, the psychological instructor of the second lieutenant.
In front of them is an iron pillar standing on the ground, which is 6 meters high. There is a washbasin-sized iron plate at the top of the iron column, and a hanging bar is hung in front of the iron plate 1.5 meters. This training course, called "Jumping Up", requires trainees to climb this post, stand on the iron plate and jump into the air, grasping the hanging bar in mid-air with both hands.
The security officer fastened the seat belt for Li Yongnan, a 20-year-old college student soldier. A dozen soldiers in charge of protection also gathered around Li Yongnan, folded their hands like volleyball players and shouted, "Come on, Li Yongnan!" " According to reports, the purpose of doing this is to let the trainer feel the power of support, which is equivalent to giving him a "reassuring".
Li Yongnian began to climb. It is no exaggeration to use the word "trembling" to describe him. Because the reporter clearly saw that Li Yongnan's hands and feet were shaking slightly. Two minutes later, Li Yongnan finally staggered up the iron column.
Standing at the top of the 6-meter-high iron pillar, Li Yongnan suddenly felt that the whole world was blurred and dangerous. The rickety iron pillar seemed determined to throw him to the ground. He had to squat down on this foot-only platform, and his hands kept digging at the edge of the iron plate.
"Look straight ahead, don't look down, stand up slowly first." Under the guidance of Liu Yang, a psychological counselor, Li Yongnan began to try to stand, but the iron column under his feet shook violently, and he broke out in a cold sweat. He squatted down again.
"Close your eyes and take a deep breath. Believe in yourself and you will succeed. " Encouraged by the psychological tutor again and again, Li Yongnan finally stood up, although he was not very straight, although his legs were still shaking, although he was shaking all over.
Li Yongnan, who is ready to take off, slowly opens his arms, just like the classic action of Ruth standing in front of the ship in Titanic, but not as romantic and chic as Ruth.
In order to give himself courage, the soldier standing in the sky shouted to his comrades who were pulling the safety rope, "Are you ready?"
"get ready!"
"I'm going to jump!"
"We support you!"
In the midst of shouts, Li Yongnan finally jumped out, but unfortunately his hand didn't catch the boom and he was hung in the air by the safety rope. It is said that this specially designed and manufactured safety rope can withstand five tons of tension, and the safety factor is absolutely no problem.
"Be right back!" The psychological instructor reminded me in time. If you don't succeed at first, don't "back out", it will easily damage your self-confidence and form a psychological barrier, so you must start over and succeed.
With the last experience, Li Yongnan, who jumped for the second time, stared at the swinging boom and jumped up in the air. With a clang, his hand firmly grasped the hanging bar, just like grasping a lifeline.
"Yong-nan li well done! Li Yongnan is good! " The men and women soldiers on the ground cheered, and Li Yongnan, who was hanging on the safety rope, leisurely returned to the ground in an excited state.
Psychologist Wang Zeqing told reporters that almost 90% people have a fear of the plateau, which is often called psychological barrier. The training course of "leaping self" is specially designed to break through psychological barriers and shape the spirit of soldiers. This kind of training can greatly exercise the will and courage of officers and men, and enhance their psychological endurance and self-confidence.
Wang Zeqing is the first postdoctoral fellow in psychology in China and the chief expert of the core expert group of psychology, a compulsory subject in the Tenth Five-Year Plan of the whole army. In close cooperation with the expert group, the Communication Training Brigade of the General Staff Department has built a relatively complete psychological education, guidance and training system, developed a soldier's psychological health test system and the first standardized psychological health file database of the whole army, developed unique psychological and behavioral training equipment for soldiers, and created the first psychological and behavioral training ground of our army. Practice has proved that psychological behavior training can effectively develop and improve the psychological potential of soldiers.
Tap the potential in the limit.
Deng Yapei walked slowly on the long and narrow aerial bridge deck. Standing at one end of the broken bridge, she hesitated, finally gritted her teeth and jumped over with an "ah". She almost cried and said, "I have never climbed so high in my life, let alone jumped on it."
This time, Deng Yapei, a 17-year-old Beijing female soldier, was named by platoon leader Wang Yun. She is a recruit who just joined the army this year.
She will climb the broken bridge 8 meters above the ground, cross the narrow and long bridge deck, fly over the gap of 1.3 meters, and jump back. This is a challenge for a little female soldier.
Deng Yapei is very nervous at this time. His face was red, he kept sucking his small nose, and the tip of his nose was covered with sweat. A pair of small hands rubbed against each other, but their eyes kept staring at the safety officer, as if afraid that the safety officer had not fastened her seat belt.
Under the repeated guidance of psychological instructors, Deng Yapei began to climb along the iron column to the bridge deck. The reporter obviously saw that she climbed reluctantly and was embarrassed. At an altitude of 8 meters, she climbed for 3 minutes. Finally climbed onto the bridge deck and the problem came out again. She stood alone on the bridge deck, but her hands clung to the iron column behind her and refused to give up. Her face turned red and white.
"Don't be nervous, don't be afraid, comrades are here to protect you!" Liu Yang, the psychological tutor, started to guide again. After a few minutes, Xiao Deng finally released his hand and his feet began to move slowly along the bridge deck. The male soldiers standing on the ground are anxious. They kept shouting "Come on" and encouraged Deng Yapei to speed up. Deng Yapei is still unhurried at this time. It is estimated that she may be saying to the male soldier in her heart: "Hum, it is easy to stand and talk. Come and try! "
Finally moved to the broken bridge. Standing on the edge of the broken bridge, Deng Yapei couldn't help but wipe his sweat first. I saw her two small fists clenched tightly. First of all, she slowly pulled her feet back and forth, leaned back in an exaggerated posture, and pulled out a leaping momentum step by step.
Just as everyone was staring at how she jumped, Deng Yapei changed her feet and started fighting again. In this way, she changed her feet and postures over and over again, but she didn't dare to jump.
Finally, Deng Yapei, who hesitated again and again, finally gritted his teeth. 1 of "ah", he jumped to the other side of the broken bridge and hugged the iron column opposite, which seemed unbearable. "Well done, Deng Yapei!" "We congratulate you!" Applause and cheers rang out from the ground. Deng Yapei slowly turned his head and smiled at his comrades-in-arms, but there were still tears on his face.
Deng Yapei, who successfully challenged the limit, obviously showed great courage. On the second jump, she almost jumped back easily.
When Deng Yaping returned to the ground, when the reporter asked her to talk about her feelings, she almost said with tears: "I have never climbed so high in my life, let alone jumped on it." My heart is about to jump out. "
Compared with Deng Yapei, Jia Ning, who has participated in military psychological behavior training for many times, is particularly relaxed on the broken bridge. I saw him walking flat on the narrow broken bridge and successfully completed two beautiful and clean jumps. This shows that there is a clear difference between psychological behavior training and non-training, and people's psychological potential can be tapped. Through psychological and behavioral training, the psychological potential and behavioral ability of soldiers are maximized.
Friendship adds value in trust.
If you give your life entirely to others, will you trust them? Huang Wei, who tied his hands, fell from the high platform, but his hands fell into the "stretcher" made by his comrades. Opening his eyes and looking at the bright smiling faces and concerned eyes, he was very moved in an instant.
If you give your life entirely to others, will you trust them? As a special fighting group, if there is a lack of trust between comrades-in-arms, it will not only lead to disharmony in this big family, but also directly affect the combat effectiveness of the troops.
In order to make people's trust appreciate, after repeated argumentation by psychologists, a training subject called "trust backwards" came into being. Although the form is simple, the effect is very obvious.
In fact, "trust retreat" only needs a platform 1.6 meters high, and 10 protectors are divided into two rows below, forming a "stretcher" with their arms. The students tied their hands with ropes and then fell flat in a state of "immobility". This requires trainees to have a psychological state of giving their lives to their protectors completely, which is based on trust.
Standing on a high platform, Huang Wei's hands were firmly tied with ropes, and the following 10 comrades were also divided into two columns, and their hands set up a protective "stretcher". Huang Wei, whose hands were tied, closed his eyes, lost his center of gravity and fell off the high platform, but fell into the "stretcher" made by his comrades. I opened my eyes and looked at the bright smiling faces and concerned eyes, which instantly made Huang Wei extremely proud and moved.
Zhang Bin, the company commander of the Communication Training Brigade, told the reporter that there was once a female soldier who had developed a withdrawn and introverted personality since she was a child because she lived in a single-parent family. After joining the army, the care and help for comrades-in-arms are regarded as "pity" and well-meaning jokes are regarded as "insults". They don't trust anyone and don't care about anything. When she stood on the high platform, she hesitated for more than twenty minutes, tried to fall a dozen times and looked back at her comrades again and again, because she didn't believe that her comrades would catch her at all. Finally, with countless encouragements, she finally fell down with her eyes closed.
This autumn, she fell into the warm and solid arms of her comrades-in-arms, and also fell out of her friendship and basic feelings. She shed tears and hugged everyone excitedly. Since then, she has become a different person, knowing how to care and trust her comrades-in-arms, and her personality has gradually become optimistic.
In the investigation, psychologists found that due to the particularity of military occupation, the physical load and psychological load far exceed the level of ordinary people, and it is easy to produce adverse psychological reactions such as tension, pain, self-blame, depression and loss of confidence. Soldiers who fail to meet the mental health standards of military personnel account for a considerable proportion. In the Gulf War, the Kosovo War and the Afghanistan War, the non-combat attrition caused by psychological problems greatly exceeded the combat attrition. The U.S. military estimates that in high-tech local wars, non-combat attrition caused by mental illness will account for 10% ~ 25%, and the combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced.
For soldiers, healthy psychology is as important as healthy body. Appropriate and scientific psychological education and guidance is conducive to the psychological maturity and stability of soldiers and to maintaining the improvement of combat effectiveness of troops. Therefore, after repeated argumentation, our army psychologists finally formed a series of research topics and scientific training methods.
Anti-frustration training, aggressive training, will training ... it is these soldiers' psychological and behavioral training that helps soldiers cultivate excellent psychological quality and achieve self-breakthrough.
"Our soldiers are so cute." Professor Yang Hongxun, a famous psychologist of our army who is nearly sixty years old, shed tears when he said this. He said: "Army building is inseparable from soldiers. Only soldiers who are psychologically mature and healthy can our army have combat effectiveness. "
Unite to unite strength.
Stepping on the backs, shoulders and even heads of comrades-in-arms, the following female soldiers were gnashed, but they still persisted. Numerous training bumps have scarred these female soldiers as beautiful as flowers and pure as jade, but the United troops have rallied in this joint impact.
On the psychological and behavioral training ground, the "joint impact" course displayed by female soldiers really made reporters feel the power of unity.
Facing a 4-meter-high wall, 10 female soldiers swarmed in, but they were also orderly. The three men in front leaned their hands against the wall, hunched their backs and set up ladders. The female soldiers at the back stepped on their backs, shoulders and even heads, struggling to climb up. The following female soldiers were gnashed, but they persisted. Everyone pushes, lifts, lifts, arches and hugs each other, and everyone does his best, just like the Eight Immortals crossing the sea to show their magical powers. It's not easy to get up first. They had to stretch out their arms and pull the people behind them one by one. The highlight is the penultimate female soldier. Her gold hook was hung upside down on the wall, and her legs were hugged by her comrades above. She stretched out her hands to a comrade below, only to see the last female soldier jump up with a beautiful fly and firmly grasp the hand of the upside-down person. In the shouts of "one, two, three", the people above grabbed their arms and pulled their legs, three times five divided by two, and all rushed to the platform.
You're finished. Time only takes 1 min 59 seconds.
Female soldier Zhan Xiaoduo told reporters: At the beginning of this training, I was the ladder below, and my comrades stepped on my shoulders, head and even face. I felt burning pain at that time, but I still gritted my teeth. Because I know that once I can't support it, my comrades above will definitely fall, and it will be all over. When it was my turn, I suffered from stamping my feet. I couldn't bear to step on my comrades again for fear of hurting them, but I couldn't do it without stepping on them. Finally, I almost crossed their shoulders with tears in my eyes.
This "combined impact" training resulted in 100% female soldiers being injured to varying degrees. Some of them have worn their arms and knees by pulling people, and some have worn their shoulders and faces by being stepped on a ladder. But everyone has no complaints, and they are all proud of cultivating the spirit of unity and cooperation and winning.
At the training site, the reporter saw that Wang Yun, the platoon leader of the female soldier, was almost scarred. The toenail of the big toe had completely fallen off, and blood beads were still oozing out, while the blood scab on the knee, the old one had declined, and the new one was born again ... Even at such a price, she still took her soldiers to the front again and again every day, which made the collective full of cohesion and fighting capacity.
Zhang said that all the soldiers who have participated in the psychological and behavioral training of military personnel have improved their psychological quality to varying degrees. Over the past two years, the brigade has trained more than 3,000 students, and the qualified rate of training has increased from 7 1% to 100%, and the excellent rate has increased from 12% to 48%. He believes that the significant improvement of training effect is attributed to effective psychological and behavioral training.
Practice has proved that among the two companies that started training in the same period this year, the success rate of the 100-meter training for the company with psychological adjustment training reached 100%, while the success rate of the 100-meter training for the company without psychological adjustment training was only 52.4%.
The good thing is that the spring breeze is on the other side of the mountain, and peach blossoms are everywhere more than purple smoke.
It is refreshing to review the psychological and behavioral training of our army, whether it is to "surpass ourselves" or "overcome fear", or to "go forward bravely" or "cross the threshold of life and death", whether it is to "turn your back on trust" or "strike together" or "work together".
"Wind, frost, rain and snow have to pass, and people can only be refined in spring, summer, autumn and winter. Emotions and sorrows must be rational, and ups and downs are nutritious. " That philosophy training slogan is also unforgettable ... push, lift, top, arch and hug, from each according to his ability. In the course training of "Joint Force Impact", the soldiers really realized that unity is the take-off of strength, and they also achieved a leap in life in the success of jumping.