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At Active Response Training Blog about the dangers of mobs, group dynamics of a group of people gathering for some unknown reasons, the following quote from that article is worth remembering.
"Trust your instincts and pay attention to what’s going on around you. When you see people amassing, it’s time to move out. Most of the injuries caused by flash mobs don’t have to happen. Resist the urge to stand around and watch the flash mob’s display. Things can go from fun and light- hearted to violent very quickly. Always have an evacuation plan for every location you visit. Your plan should have at least two alternate ways to get out of a violent crowd. When you see the crowd gathering, implement your plan. Get out. Don’t wait around to be a victim." - Posted on June 5, 2019 by Greg Ellifritz in Articles
Something to remember as well, if you want to trust your instincts just make sure you know what to look for, what to be aware of and have a plan in the event that little voice in your head starts shouting, "Danger Will Robinson!" Like Mr. MacYoung likes to say, you can't react or act when you don't know something or you don't know you don't know something. Reading articles such as Mr. Ellifritz's will give you information and such information with appropriate training and practice will create those, "instincts" allowing you to implement that plan.
ADDENDUM dtd 6-5-2019; 13:00 hrs
What are “instincts?”
- an innate, typically fixed pattern of behavior in animals in response to certain stimuli.
- a natural or intuitive way of acting or thinking.
- a natural propensity or skill of a specified kind.
- a largely inheritable and unalterable tendency of an organism to make a complex and specific response to environmental stimuli without involving reason.
- behavior that is mediated by reactions below the conscious level.
When we humans talk about instincts we often, if certain criteria are met, think of the “fight-or-flight” response. The funny thing here, if you will imagine, is the triggers for the F-or-F response is set from a historical standpoint where we faced predatory dangers from mostly animals, etc. In modern times, many of those instinctual responses are disconnected from the realities that would have resulted in our survival.
Social conditions and conditioning is what seems to be the cause of the disconnect where we humans may simply freeze and experience brain-lock, to be stuck in the OO loop, that in some instances will result in grave harm or death. Not acceptable!
Initially the instincts are less than the above descriptions and those others have been added to enhance the meaning to, supposedly, fit into modern social environments.
- a largely inheritable and unalterable tendency of an organism to make a complex and specific response to environmental stimuli without involving reason.
- behavior that is mediated by reactions below the conscious level.
- an innate, typically fixed pattern of behavior in animals in response to certain stimuli.
Most of what we really require for self-protection in modern times are those behaviors, skills, intuitive actions and thinking that manifest in actions that will adhere and be triggered without conscious logical thinking and seem to rise up from some unconscious level, i.e., like triggering our lizard part of the brain.
Instincts, for modern times and environments and social constructs must be learned, understood and trained to a level of the unconscious responses of principled based methodologies and methods that will adhere to social conditions, laws, statutes and individualized perceptional beliefs of humans.
Think on that one for a while, the answers are out there - you just have to let them in!
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