May 5th, 2024
5minute read
Your mind is your most powerful weapon.
It doesnt need a carry permit and is always carried concealed.
What are the secrets of the professionals when it comes to recognition and rapid assessment of a developing threat?
Even more effectively, how can you see it, hear it and smell it coming?
Our society is divided into two groups.
The second are those who are aware and prepared if something bad happens.
The Best Weapon
Protection professionals will tell you that your mind is also your mosteffectiveweapon.
In most situations, you’re able to remain proactive and take preventative measures against a potential threat.
Threatening behavior is observable in your immediate environment at the onset of such activity.
Threat Identification
The most immediate tool we have onboard for threat identification is our situational awareness.
In plain speak, situational awareness is just another way to say being aware of your surroundings.
Trained protection professionals employ situational awareness as a viable proactive measure.
It is oftentimes utilized as a deterrent, to eliminate the element of surprise and to deter motivation.
Threat Indicators
If you are not aware of something, then that something is invisible to you.
What goes unseen can sometimes be the one thing that causes the biggest problem.
Being able to identify a threat, i.e.
How can you do this?
Some examples of threat indicators include body posture, eye contact, and an intercept course.
Body Posture
A persons demeanor can telegraph their intentions.
The trained professional can identify a potential threat indicator just by observing their body language.
The average person makes normal eye contact by looking at you but without any real intensity.
Should that person consider harming you, then they might look at you intently or start sizing you up.
