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What are the 3 A's of self-defense?

A straight forward approach to self-defense is something called The 3 A's. Awareness. Assessment. Action.

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The 3 A's

A straight forward approach to self-defense is something called The 3 A's.

Awareness

Awareness is a knowledge of people and the environment in the immediate vicinity. Ideally, awareness helps an individual to circumvent and remove herself from a potentially harmful situation. Scan The Area. And keep scanning. Keep your eyes up. Look around. Pay attention to what and who is nearby. Make it a habit to always look around.

Keep your eyes up. Look around. Pay attention to what and who is nearby. Make it a habit to always look around. People. Who is nearby? What are they doing? Where are they going?

Who is nearby? What are they doing? Where are they going? Comfort Zone. How close can people be to you before you feel uncomfortable? Where are your “comfort zone” boundaries?

How close can people be to you before you feel uncomfortable? Where are your “comfort zone” boundaries? Doors and Windows. How many doors are nearby? Where are the doors? Where is the entrance and exit?

How many doors are nearby? Where are the doors? Where is the entrance and exit? Distracted. Don’t be distracted or preoccupied with other tasks (Vogt, 15). Don’t be distracted or preoccupied with other tasks (Vogt, 15). Intuition. Put it all together with intuition.

Intuition

What is Intuition?

The simple explanation of intuition is that it is our decision-making shortcut. Commonly referred to as a “Gut Feeling” or a “Snap Judgement”, intuition is the ability to understand something immediately without the need for conscious reasoning. It is a process that relies upon our emotions and past experiences to bypass the slower, logic-based brain functions to inform us through body reactions (i.e., feeling in the stomach, hairs on the back of the neck, sweaty palms, etc.). It is essentially the brain on autopilot, performing the actions of processing information without a conscious awareness that it is operating. It is “the power or faculty of attaining to direct knowledge or cognition without evident rational thought and inference.” According to Gavin de Baeker, author of The Gift of Fear, intuition is knowing without knowing why. In the following video, Daniel Cordaro Ph.D., explains the science behind intuition, where is comes from, why we have it and how we can use it to our benefit in the following video.

How It Works

Pay attention to all the “funny feelings” that we usually ignore.

1 Trust the Gut. Recognize, acknowledge, and trust the “gut feeling,” the feeling an individual has when something is not right. If something does not “feel” right, it probably isn’t right. 2 Primary signals. Curiosity, Wonder, Discomfort, Anxiety, Fear. Pay attention to these signals. 3 Significance. Intuition provides significance to observations by bringing awareness of the world around us to a conscious level.

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