Informed and Situational Awareness

In a recent podcast produced and provided by Lawrence Kane and Kris Wilder on Mazlow and Criminals the guest, Rory Miller, spoke of how awareness is often spoken but not explained adequately. He and Mr. Kane spoke the term, "informed awareness." This got me to thinking about both informed awareness and situational awareness. 

Informed awareness is the yin of the yang side called situational awareness. I theorize that both are the two sides of the one coin or in this reference the yin of the yang of the yin that is yin-yang. 

It is best to listen to this podcast to get the full sense of what Mr. Kane and Mr. Miller mean by informed awareness. In a quick nutshell informed speaks to their references to the Mazlow Hierarchy as it applies to violence and criminals. To me this means the study of Mr. Miller's books on violence, etc. where he speaks to the information on this complex but necessary subject. 

As to situational awareness this is simply an awareness of you in the moment you are in and the environmental influences you encounter. As I also theorize one cannot be achieved without the other. In order to make situational awareness work you have to have an informed awareness to work from. This is not just what you learn as to self-defense techniques, etc. but that information that drives good self-defense. This means informed awareness to achieve situational awareness. 

After all if you don't have the informed awareness you may actually cause violence to happen to you vs. avoidance, etc. Does this make sense? Hey, go ahead and listen to the podcast here "Rory Miller, Mazlow and Criminals." Maybe it will clear up what I am trying to convey here, maybe.