Hey Guys what is going on Chris Sajnog here retired Navy SEAL and founder of
the SEAL training system and in this video I'm going to teach you the ABCs of
surviving a violent encounter now let's go ahead and get started
all right so let's talk about the ABCs of surviving a violent encounter and
I'll tell you first off it involves much more than just protecting yourself from
that violent encounter because the best thing you can possibly do is prevent
that violent encounter from ever even happening and that's what I want to talk
about right here all right so what are the ABCs
well the ABCs stand for awareness building your defenses in calming the
threat all right so first up let's talk about awareness
now awareness I'm sure you know being aware situational awareness is one of
the best things that you can do the best skills you can have to be able to
prevent a violent encounter from happening so how do you build awareness
well the number one way that I know how to build your situational awareness and
being more aware is to meditate and what meditation does is it teaches your brain
to clear out all the clutter and it's not clearing your brain like you have no
thoughts but what it teaches you to do is clear out the clutter so thoughts
that aren't really important at that moment in time and teaches you to think
about what you need to think about or what you need to focus on during a
violent counter so when you're meditating say you're thinking about
your breath and you're just focusing on your breath you're gonna have thoughts
that come into your mind like oh what do I need to do right now oh I'm wasting my
time am i meditating right those are all fine everybody has thoughts when they
meditate but what meditation does is it teaches you to acknowledge those
thoughts but I'm going to choose to focus on my breath so then when it comes
to a violent encounter your awareness your ability to be aware is so much more
enhanced because now obviously there's going to be lots of other things going
on around you but because you've trained your mind so well through meditation you
are aware of that one thing that one specific element that is most important
for you to focus on right then in there to protect yourself and your family so
that is the best way to train your awareness another great way that I
started doing recently is trail running so just getting out on a trail getting
off the treadmill getting out where there's trees and there's other people
and things are going by you and just by looking straight ahead you don't even
have to try your mind is going to start picking up on things that you don't see
when you're on a treadmill and you're watching the little screen you're
watching reruns of whatever your favorite show is on there you're so
unseemly aware it's crazy so just get outside in and move go for a run and you
will improve your situational awareness just by that alone all right next up the
B is to build your defenses so these could be physical defenses so putting an
alarm on your house putting lights up around your house digging a moat and
putting that around your house whatever it is building up your your physical
defenses building up yourself right you are the weapon so building yourself up
and being strong so you can protect yourself for your family if you need to
the other thing is like spatial defenses so learning what spaces are like people
should be in so you've got your personal space around you so very few people
should be that close to you and then you've got kind of your personal
protection bubble which is around you so say like 21 feet around you and knowing
what's going on around you like that it could also mean cutting back bushes that
maybe you have against your house so think about space as it relates to
personal protection and then the last thing is building up your mental
defenses so what I mean by that I mean obviously meditating because I always
mean meditating but the other thing is just building up your mental toughness
and you do that really through training and through fighting through adversity
and also through positive self-talk so your training you're getting better as
you get better you get more confident as you get more confident you get better at
what you're doing so you're more confident in it and you've got this
confidence competent loop that you've got going on well the last thing you
need to do is tell yourself that you are going to be able to protect yourself or
your family you're going to be able to survive this violent encounter because
we are the stories that we tell our selves so make sure that you're telling
yourself you know what I do have what it takes to protect myself and my family
all right and then the last one here the the C in the ABCs is to calm the threat
because think about this the best way to win a fight is to not have a fight at
all and that's what I want for you right I don't want to just sit here and teach
you how to you know shoot a gun or use martial arts to protect yourself that
should be the very last step what I want you to do is try to calm down the
situation however you can that's going to be the best way for you to protect
yourself and your family all right so that is it for today remember the ABCs
of personal protection and that is building your awareness building up your
defenses and then being able to calm down the threat make sure you use those
practice those and until next time keep paving your path to perfection guys if
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