| Have you enrolled in that martial arts program or | | | | assault. |
| talked to a self defense instructor to discuss the | | | | Just as your body will be reduced to using gross |
| next step in your personal self defense training | | | | motor skills, your brain function will narrow to |
| yet? If not, when will you take action? | | | | areas that, I can almost guarantee, you are not |
| Just like a "Protection From Abuse" order, or PFA, | | | | used to operating with effectively. And, unless |
| that we have in our legal system here in the US, | | | | you either have the real world experience that |
| these lessons are only words on your computer | | | | teaches you how to function when in that state, |
| screen or on a piece of paper. And the self | | | | or you have a teacher who can lead you through |
| defense classes and techniques being taught in | | | | drills and exercises that help to reproduce it, you |
| those classes you keep "thinking about taking,"are | | | | will be completely surprised at how differently you |
| absolutely worthless to you during an attack, | | | | operate in a physical attack, not against friends in |
| unless you take the necessary steps to | | | | class, but against someone who doesn't care |
| participate in them and turn them into your own | | | | about you at all! |
| knowledge, skills, and attitudes for survival. | | | | What are your pressing problems or training |
| Contrary to popular belief, you WILL NOT | | | | needs? What kind of attacks are you most |
| remember this stuff, or anything you read, | | | | worried about? And, more importantly, how do |
| watch, or learn in a class unless the lessons are | | | | you know that you can trust what you have |
| imprinted on your subconscious and unconscious | | | | already learned, practiced, seen, and come to |
| mind, and on your muscle-memory. We'd like to | | | | believe - to work when the chips are down and |
| think that our left-brain, rational mind that's | | | | his knife is speeding toward your throat? |
| learning this stuff and reading the words will be in | | | | Of all the things that you could invest your time, |
| control during an attack. But, the truth is, that | | | | effort and money in that would enhance your life, |
| part of your mind will be the first thing to bail out | | | | nothing is more powerful than investing in |
| on you, leaving you to whatever is in your | | | | yourself, and your own personal safety. but then... |
| storehouse consciousness, or subconscious mind - | | | | Until "you" believe that, you probably won't take |
| if anything - to deal with your attacker's brutal | | | | the steps you need to take! |