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Resistance See other Resistance Articles Title: Finally! The missing personal protection link for trained carry concealed holders AND their loved ones who don’t carry at all. Finally! The missing personal protection link for trained carry concealed holders AND their loved ones who don’t carry at all. Retired Navy SEAL and former female DIA “intelligence professional” reveal situational awareness training to bridge the gap between reality and the self-defense training you’ve already got. Oversimplified awareness color codes and soundbite advice about “listening to your gut” sound great in a classroom and get heads nodding, but just don’t cut it in the real world. Color codes and “listening to your gut” is great advice for soldiers who are out on patrol for the 99th time and have the previous 98 experiences to draw on. But that kind of general situational awareness advice simply doesn’t work for civilians going about their daily life or even soldiers who have transitioned back to life in the US outside of a warzone. Go into any martial arts school, take any self defense program, or attend any concealed carry class and you’ll hear how the martial skills you’ll learn are important, but that the true key to personal safety is situational awareness. live-course-300x210Unfortunately, situational awareness isn’t taught in 99.9% of self defense studios or firearms classes. They can teach you what to do if your situational awareness skills fail, but not how to detect and avoid trouble in the first place. Oh, sure, they’ll say things like, “look out for bad guys”, “listen to your gut”, “avoid dangerous places”, and “watch your 6”. None of those are wrong, but they aren’t really situational awareness. They might even talk about being a sheepdog or staying in “condition yellow” instead of “condition white” without having a workable definition of “condition yellow” or a blueprint for how to achieve it. It creates a situation where situational awareness takes away from everything else in your life. Where you can’t be engaged in a conversation in public because you’re obsessed trying to keep track of what everyone in the room is doing. Situational awareness done right is completely different. It happens in the background…in the subconscious mind, allowing you to be safe, aware, AND enjoy everything that’s going on around you. The mind is designed to constantly passively scan it’s environment for threats. It has threat profiles programmed in—some since birth, others from past experiences, and still others from things you’ve learned. Potential threats like fire, deep water, sharp pointy things, predators, deadly falls, etc. You don’t consciously walk around all day looking at every object you get near and decide whether or not it will burn, poke, or cut you—your subconscious mind does it all passively in the background. And, when your mind sees something that matches a threat profile, you suddenly become aware of it consciously. Simple, automatic, predictable. Just how situational awareness is supposed to be. Think about driving. You’re operating a deadly instrument at high speed in an environment where threats can come at you from 360 degrees. At first, you’re overwhelmed with what’s going on. You don’t know what real threats are, so A LOT of things seem like a threat. You hit the brakes too hard, over-correct steering and basically, drive like a teenager. As you get more experience, your mind figures out what real threats are, your threat profiles become more accurate, and you’re able to drive safer and faster while being more relaxed. Sometimes, when things are particularly hairy, you slow down and pay attention to every little detail. But, for the most part, you calmly, unconsciously, and continually scan your environment for potential threats. The problem with situational awareness is that most people haven’t correctly programmed their subconscious mind with high quality threat profiles. They’re acting like a teenage driver and over-reacting to lots of things that aren’t really a problem. And they never get to the point where they can be both aware AND relaxed. “It’s obvious…once you know what you’re looking for” As a hunter, I remember the first time someone told me to “look for deer tracks, scat, and other sign.” That was great, but I missed all but the most obvious signs. I didn’t know what to look for. It wasn’t until someone took the time to teach me how to read tracks & scat and what other signs looked like (like broken branches, rubs, scents, scratches, etc.) that I was able to “see” them and what they were doing. The signs were there the whole time. My mind just didn’t know that they were important until I programmed in the profile and my subconscious mind knew what to look for. Once I knew what I was looking for, it was obvious. I could read my environment like the deer had left me notes with a big marker. But with situational awareness, the triggers for “possible threats” are too general to be effective. The more general threat profile you give it, the more general (and low quality) feedback it will provide. “Look for bad guys”, “Look for concealed weapons”, and “Listen to your gut” are examples of general, low quality threat profiles. Those are the equivalent of telling a new kid driver to “look out for bad drivers” without telling them what actions to look for to signal that someone’s a bad driver. And, with the hunting example, it’s like telling your brain to “look for tracks and sign” rather than telling it exactly what threat profile to look for. Looking for people with knives and guns is an example of a general, low quality threat profile. I’m one of 12+ million people in the US who legally carry knives and guns and I’m completely harmless to anyone who’s not threatening me or my family. These false positives act like an immunization—every time you identify a potential threat that ends up being harmless, you desensitize yourself and make it less likely that you’ll spot future threats. Poster Comment: You have to be aware of your surroundings. They only want $47 for this one. Do it if you've got it. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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