2 Things You Can Do Now to Feel Safer

Self-defense is more than just learning how to fight. Learning situational awareness, and how to read body language and your environment are self-defense strategies.

The two most basic things you can do now to increase your safety when you're out in the world are:

1.) Take off your headphones.

2.) Look up from your phone.

Our hearing and our vision, gifted to us by Mother Nature, are our first line of defense that we distract with other jobs. Someone running up behind us? Our ears can pick up the sound of those footsteps, giving us time to react, run, escape. Our eyes are also our obvious number one asset for self-defense, being able to scan for potential threats anywhere we can turn our head. Our senses give us the information we need to make the best decisions for our survival.

You don't need 20 years of martial art experience to be and feel safer now. Reclaiming and tapping into your intuition and body's natural ability to assess danger will help you stay safer. Learning physical self-defense techniques are for protecting yourself when you didn't see, hear, or sense danger before it's right in front of you.

Ultimately, learning self-defense is about becoming the guardian of your life force. You learn how to avoid a fight all together or create options for yourself to escape. So you can get home to your loved ones. So you can continue to live out your beautiful life and fulfill your purpose in the world.

Learning self-defense is one of the highest acts of self-love you can engage in. It’s a declaration to others that you matter and that no one else but YOU are in charge of your body, your life, and your fate.