Personal Safety Training

Having run thousands of personal safety courses throughout the UK I have met many individuals who have experienced extreme fear and yet others who claim they have never actually had a Fight or Flight reaction.

Fear is normal it can significantly enhance your chances of survival in a potentially dangerous situation.

The amigdala has developed over millions of years to aid our survival and once triggered it produces powerful performance enhancing chemicals to flood the bloodstream enabling us to become , Faster, Stronger, and in many cases we can become totally desensitised to pain.

The amigdala can be triggered by any of our senses e.g, smell, sound, vison, touch, etc. but for us humans most of the information we receive is through our eye sight.

Think about the example I gave in the previous issue about walking into a public house and just getting an uncomfortable feeling.

Through your eyes alone the brain is feed a vast amount of information most of which is filtered out but even the smallest micro pieces  of information that threatens your personal safety are high jacked by amigular before the logical brain gets an opportunity to analyse the situation.

So we walk into a bar, we scan our environment, read body bold language both verbally &  non verbally we are all experts at this, but some people excel at this by training in NLP for instance and we will look at this in later articles.

You may also notice there seems to be an  unpleasant atmosphere which you would have difficulty explaining to some-one but you just know something is not right.

Scientists have now established that this is why most of us do not become victims of violence we trust our instinct and remove ourselves from potential threats and that the small number of  individuals who become victims are just not tuned into their instincts or go into denial.

Two things to remember about instinct:

Firstly it is always a response to something.

Secondly: It only has your best interest at heart.

In the next issue we will be looking at awareness and the research that has been carried out into this.

You will learn how to increase your awareness significantly so that you can become your own personal bodyguard.

Instinct & Intuition.

During the first few issues of my  blog we will be looking at one of the most important factors for survival namely the part played by Instinct & Intuition when it comes to self protection or protecting others.

This is a subject often talked about but understood by just a few and usually only by those who have survived terrifying situations by listening to their instinct.

So what is instinct ?

Something all living creatures have to get their genes into the next generation.

Think of the simple turtle the moment it hatches from its shell it races to the sea knowing what it needs to do, which way to go etc.

Is this what psychologists call ” learned behaviour”.  No of course not, how does the turtle know exactly what to do ?

Clearly it is born with this information to aid survival.

Now think about ourselves who have got to the top of the food chain, do you think we are any less gifted, of course not we are born with incredible information to aid our survival (Instinct) and as we go through life we add to this by developing intuition.

Resent scientific research has established that this is the reason most of us do not become the victims of assault or violent crime.

We just know when something is not right and avoid the situation.

Research now suggests that the people who become victims are just not in touch with their instinct or just go straight into denial.

How many men reading this have at some time walked into a pub, ordered their drink and then got a sudden urge to drink up as quick as they can and get out ?

How many women have had a man approach them just asking for the time or directions and suddenly felt the hair on the back of their neck stand up ?

In both the above scenarios the appears to be no logic, it would be difficult to explain to some one what the perceived problem is or was.

This is an emotional response and emotion has no logic

You just get this uncomfortable feeling/emotion which compels you to act.

In the next issue we will be looking at just what happens when the amigdala kicks in an we get the adrenal surge which is usually mistaken for Fear.

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