Our Choices
by BJ Bruno on 05/02/12
Daily the news is predominatly about all the bad; war, sickness, disease, assaults, chaos, fear, warnings, and predictions of unsolvable earthly destruction.
Do you watch the news? Do you follow an on-line internet news cast? How do you respond to these missives of dire and seemingly hopeless accounts that occur to ourselves, neighbors, community, nation and world?
I know of some who never engage their time with any media and I know others who are so afraid they might miss something that they never turn off their imagined 'links' to society.
I believe there has to be a middle ground; a watchful attitude with the realization that everything reported in most media is designed to enrapture and procure a shocked response, yet knowing that some reports could be beneficial to our safety and survival with proper analysis and study.
How do you feel about your personal safety? Think about it. What do you have in place should you or your family come under attack? Remember that an attack could come in the form of an assault on your health, home or personhood.
Often, at a social function or even in-line at the market, a discussion such as the following will come up. When the person I am speaking to finds out that we have a facility that instructs systems of personal protection like Krav Maga and Taekwondo, they invariably give a light chuckle and point to their empty pocket or waistband and say, "All I need is my Glock (or Sig Sauer, or Colt etc,). We usually politely nod and agree with him. We don't say something cheeky like, "Do you have time to go home or out to your car to get it?"
I heard a recent account about a young husband getting a late night call while he was on a roadtrip from his wife home alone.
"I keep hearing noises!" she whispered in a panicky voice.
"Hon," trying to make his voice sound calm, "Go to the safe in the den and get out the gun."
"The noises are in the den!"
"Then go to the safe in the bedroom and get that one!"
"I can't, I am hiding in kitchen pantry!"
Frustrated, the husband called the police, who went to the home, searched it and found nothing to everyone's great relief.
My point is this; protective weapons are fine, but rare is the time when trouble finds most law abiding citizens fully armed.
Better it is to be mentally and physically prepared for the worst and always hope for the best. Take some self defense courses. Get your family involved. You will learn techniques that the FBI and local law enforcement agencies train in offered here at our facility. Plus you will gain greater physical health and fitness as you practise what you learn. Not only will you then have the confidence of having some options to help prepare you against harm, you will also gain a healthier resistence to disease and ill-health.
Train somewhere. Be prepared.
Don't wait till trouble seeks you out.
"It's Your Life!"
Next Report: Women and Self Defense
"What Does Health and Fitness Have To Do With It?"
by BJ Bruno on 04/23/12
By 'it' in the above title, I am referring to our personal safety.
Safety as defined by Wikipedia.org is the state of being safe, the condition of being protected against the physical, social, spiritual, financial, political, emotional, occupational, psychological, educational or other types or consquences of failure, damage, error, accidents, harm or any event which could be considered non-desirable.
We all want to be safe or protected from any adverse results that would impact any of the above conditions, yes? As infants and children, it is our innate desire to manage those around us to want to protect and shelter us because it is generally unreasonable to expect that at young ages, we would be able to fend or protect ourselves and insure our safety.
So, now that you are an adult, are you managing your own safety effectively? Do you feel that you have lessened the harmful effects or adverse consequences to your health and personhood that could result from erroneous choices and/or unchosen situations?
Choosing to be aware of troublesome situations is the first step towards diluting negative impacts in our life, but sometimes avoidance is not always possible and there could times when although we avoid trouble, sometimes trouble comes looking for us.
This is the next step; being in an optimum state of physical and mental health to combat the onslaught of an un-asked for situation or a personal confrontation that could result in damage to us.
Is this possible? Can we gain that type of health to help keep us safe? Is it ever too late?
These questions and more will be addressed in our next post next week.
Stay tuned. Stay safe.
"It's your life!"
