Personal Protection - Emotional Control

While trying to protect yourself during a violentnow that you will research, take classes, and
attack one of the main things you will need to dopractice learning self defense so that you can
is to control your emotions. This will not be easycontrol your emotions at a time that being
to do when your life is in jeopardy. Your mainprepared will be the only option that may save
objective will be to escape with no harm to youyour life. Letting personal issues, others, or busy
because if there are injuries it will make theschedules keep you from knowledge and training
healing process worse and harder to get over.that you need will only delay the inevitable.
Living a normal life after this attack will be difficultGet mentally, physically, and emotionally ready to
but it will never be the same. With this in mind ifconquer whatever is holding you back from
you get attacked then controlling your emotionsstarting your training. Continuing to use excuses to
will be one of the main keys to help you escape.justify your actions to do nothing about it right
If you show that you are scared instead of beingnow will make you an easy target. Do you really
brave then that will give your attacker morewant to be a easy target? During the training it
control and power over you. This is not what youwill help you to get into shape through exercising
want to happen because it will make it harder toand then teach you to be confident looking out
escape. Being brave, fearless, and angry will causefor areas that are lurking with danger.
your attacker to be uncomfortable making itSitting around doing other things making the time
easier for you to get away. The worst thing youpass by so that you do not have to get the
can do is make the situation more violent bynecessary personal safety training is setting you
panicking and doing the wrong things or not doingup for a potential easy target. Do not let this
anything at all.happen to you because it is not worth it and it will
Make sure you are prepared for a situation thatminimize the regrets that you will have to live
will cause your emotions to go haywire and yourwith in the future. Making life easier to live is good
brain to freeze up. If you are not prepared thenand I know that is what you really want. Take
things can go terribly wrong leaving you withaction now to get the personal safety training
regrets the rest of your life. Tell yourself rightneeded to protect yourself.