How Paying Attention to Details Can Avert an Assault
Confidence Projected: Women in particular need to project an outward sense of confidence in their body language, which should state that they are not easy targets.
Making eye contact (not staring), head up, and eyes surveying the territory are but a few ways.
Smile when I first meet a stranger.
It is a disarming technique.
It tells them that you acknowledge their presence.
Pro-active Travel: Arrange whenever possible to travel in groups and in lighted open spaces.
Night travel requires planning and "light/noise essentials" such as personal alarms with flashlights and electronic pocket whistles.
Always remember that your first priority is to not place yourself in a dangerous situation in the first place, but with that said, valuables can be replaced but not your life.
Personal Awareness is essential to avoiding criminal encounters.
The honest reality is that, the socioeconomic downturn is advancing the rise in person to person altercations.
Personal security requires accepting the fact that physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual warfare is a common occurrence.
A little paranoia can be a good thing, because good common sense is trying to tell you that you are to be aware and pay attention to the happenings around you.
This world is an increasingly hostile place.
Knowing how to prevent being targeted by an attacker can save your life.
This article will cover the many aspects of surviving a violent attack, including how to choose a self defense weapon, how to recognize a potentially dangerous situation, and how to prepare for the unexpected.
Mind Preparation Scenarios: Role playing scenarios within your conscious mind help to prepare the mind to defend itself.
Visualize how you would react to an attack within your scenarios.
Just as we must prepare ourselves to participate in an athletic event or chess tournament, prepare yourself to action while still in a safe environment.
Trust your own (instinct/intuition.
) Listen to that "little voice" in your head, that tells you something (or someone) "just doesn't look right.
" A little stress sharpens our instincts and puts us on full alert.
Self Defense Weapons: Women need to have on their person some kind of self defense weapon in order to be able to defend themselves.
When a woman is empowered with self defense equipment, she can protect herself, her children, and perhaps the man in her life, who is not the abuser.
Prepare for the Unexpected: All too often women become targets because they are distracted with duties such as loading their car with groceries or securing their children into their car seats.
Vehicle break-downs are very common times when a woman can become a victim of assault.
It is essential for every woman to have an emergency roadside service provider, such as AAA, On Star, Four Star Towing Service, Paragon Motor Club, Roadside Assistance and Allstate Motor Club are but a few examples.
I have had AAA Plus Roadside for the last 18 years.
This is one subscription I renew religiously, every September.
Encounters: Due to our mobility, the risk of attack is substantially increased.
With increased independence, comes the chance of encountering an attacker.
I worked at nighttime positions for many years and was fortunate enough to have been threatened twice.
On one occasion, because I had commercial cleaning chemicals at my disposal, I was only coerced into giving the perpetrators my money to secure my release.
The extortionists demanded bus fare in exchange for my release.
The cleaning chemicals in my hands and the honest promise that my male crew would be joining me soon, convinced the three teenage extortionists to accept the $5.
00 and to depart.
On another occasion, I was physically assaulted and would have suffered severe injuries, if not death at the hands of the assailant had not someone intervened.
I was being choked by a man much larger than I.
My father knocked the man's hands away from my throat.
A sack of empty pop cans almost cost me my life.
It would have taken a self defense weapon to save me if it hadn't been for my father.
Criminal Dislikes: Three ingredients criminals hate the most are: lights, people and noise.
Criminals do not want to attract attention to their ill-conceived behaviors and actions.
Criminals despise attention during the commission of their crimes.
Defensive Devices: The main purpose for owning and using stun guns and pepper sprays, is to incapacitate an assailant long enough for you to escape from the area.
A Child's Innocent Review: The reason I am adding a child's perspective as to the abuse is secondarily affecting their well-being, also.
Then and only then, will many women decide its time to leave the house with their children.
When a woman's children sees their mother repeatedly beaten and/or verbally abused by the man in the house, only then does it motivate her to leave the premises and set up a new life for herself and her children.
What really clinches the knowledge that she must get away from the abuse is when her children make the following statements, "I'm sorry mommy, and I don't mean to be so bad.
" Conclusion: Practiced emergency drills involving the use of pepper spray or a stun gun is paramount to developing correct habitual action when under attack.
Victim profiling is all too real.
Take account of how not to "look like a target.
"
Making eye contact (not staring), head up, and eyes surveying the territory are but a few ways.
Smile when I first meet a stranger.
It is a disarming technique.
It tells them that you acknowledge their presence.
Pro-active Travel: Arrange whenever possible to travel in groups and in lighted open spaces.
Night travel requires planning and "light/noise essentials" such as personal alarms with flashlights and electronic pocket whistles.
Always remember that your first priority is to not place yourself in a dangerous situation in the first place, but with that said, valuables can be replaced but not your life.
Personal Awareness is essential to avoiding criminal encounters.
The honest reality is that, the socioeconomic downturn is advancing the rise in person to person altercations.
Personal security requires accepting the fact that physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual warfare is a common occurrence.
A little paranoia can be a good thing, because good common sense is trying to tell you that you are to be aware and pay attention to the happenings around you.
This world is an increasingly hostile place.
Knowing how to prevent being targeted by an attacker can save your life.
This article will cover the many aspects of surviving a violent attack, including how to choose a self defense weapon, how to recognize a potentially dangerous situation, and how to prepare for the unexpected.
Mind Preparation Scenarios: Role playing scenarios within your conscious mind help to prepare the mind to defend itself.
Visualize how you would react to an attack within your scenarios.
Just as we must prepare ourselves to participate in an athletic event or chess tournament, prepare yourself to action while still in a safe environment.
Trust your own (instinct/intuition.
) Listen to that "little voice" in your head, that tells you something (or someone) "just doesn't look right.
" A little stress sharpens our instincts and puts us on full alert.
Self Defense Weapons: Women need to have on their person some kind of self defense weapon in order to be able to defend themselves.
When a woman is empowered with self defense equipment, she can protect herself, her children, and perhaps the man in her life, who is not the abuser.
Prepare for the Unexpected: All too often women become targets because they are distracted with duties such as loading their car with groceries or securing their children into their car seats.
Vehicle break-downs are very common times when a woman can become a victim of assault.
It is essential for every woman to have an emergency roadside service provider, such as AAA, On Star, Four Star Towing Service, Paragon Motor Club, Roadside Assistance and Allstate Motor Club are but a few examples.
I have had AAA Plus Roadside for the last 18 years.
This is one subscription I renew religiously, every September.
Encounters: Due to our mobility, the risk of attack is substantially increased.
With increased independence, comes the chance of encountering an attacker.
I worked at nighttime positions for many years and was fortunate enough to have been threatened twice.
On one occasion, because I had commercial cleaning chemicals at my disposal, I was only coerced into giving the perpetrators my money to secure my release.
The extortionists demanded bus fare in exchange for my release.
The cleaning chemicals in my hands and the honest promise that my male crew would be joining me soon, convinced the three teenage extortionists to accept the $5.
00 and to depart.
On another occasion, I was physically assaulted and would have suffered severe injuries, if not death at the hands of the assailant had not someone intervened.
I was being choked by a man much larger than I.
My father knocked the man's hands away from my throat.
A sack of empty pop cans almost cost me my life.
It would have taken a self defense weapon to save me if it hadn't been for my father.
Criminal Dislikes: Three ingredients criminals hate the most are: lights, people and noise.
Criminals do not want to attract attention to their ill-conceived behaviors and actions.
Criminals despise attention during the commission of their crimes.
Defensive Devices: The main purpose for owning and using stun guns and pepper sprays, is to incapacitate an assailant long enough for you to escape from the area.
A Child's Innocent Review: The reason I am adding a child's perspective as to the abuse is secondarily affecting their well-being, also.
Then and only then, will many women decide its time to leave the house with their children.
When a woman's children sees their mother repeatedly beaten and/or verbally abused by the man in the house, only then does it motivate her to leave the premises and set up a new life for herself and her children.
What really clinches the knowledge that she must get away from the abuse is when her children make the following statements, "I'm sorry mommy, and I don't mean to be so bad.
" Conclusion: Practiced emergency drills involving the use of pepper spray or a stun gun is paramount to developing correct habitual action when under attack.
Victim profiling is all too real.
Take account of how not to "look like a target.
"
