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This current article deals with how to begin to learn the basics

of heightened awareness to situations we all encounter on a

fairly regular basis. We have all been in places where we

suddenly realize that we do not know anyone well, have become

separated from our comfort zone and began to panic. Using the

techniques I describe will help the reader to have a plan in

place to determine how best to protect themselves from harm

through logical and easy tactics.

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More Important Safety Tips To Consider

Copyright © 2007 Gerald E. Veale

Veale Safety

http://www.vealesafety.com

This is not the article that I was intending on writing at this

time but something bad happened to someone close to me and I am

therefore going to write again about being more defensive in our

daily lives. Unfortunately, we MUST all become more aware of our

surroundings and less trusting of people we meet casually.

I will give some easy to remember and easy to implement safety

tips that each of you can incorporate into your everyday life.

With our ever-increasing diversity of people, cultures, races,

and backgrounds, it becomes increasingly easier to have what you

say or do to be taken in a negative way by a person who may snap

and take violent action against you. Preparation is your key to

possibly avoiding an attack against you.

The Top Five Things To Be " Tuned In " For To Maximize Your

Personal Safety:

1. Start to make it a daily ritual to be observant in the

locations you frequent. Make mental notes of people you

regularly see and how they act and react to those around them.

Criminal types are not always the stereotypical " dumb " guys you

think they are. Many spend a lot of time watching and learning

who is a vulnerable mark and who is to be avoided. You want to

be in the latter group!

2. If you find that you have made a mistake and are in a

situation where your comfort level deteriorates, you need to take

immediate steps to get back to a safer place. Raise your

personal ALERT LEVEL from green to yellow and finally to red.

When you do this it should set off TRIGGERS in your brain that

you set up beforehand.

3. Alert levels and triggers that you need must up before you

need them. I will describe these alert levels and trigger points

later in this article. The importance of them is critical and

can save you from personal harm, danger or injury.

4. As soon as possible get to a location that is not only safer,

but where there are other people around. It would be best if

these were trusted people who were your friends, however just a

group will also serve you better than being isolated with a

potential attacker. This step can also mean the difference

between safety and being a victim of crime!

5. If you feel it to be important enough, write down every detail

you can recall creating a record. Notify the authorities and

indicate you WILL press charges if warranted. The Police will

ask for a statement and your record may become crucial to

bringing an attacker or potential attacker onto the police radar

screen that may help to make your neighborhood safer.

Alert Levels And Triggers:

Each of us needs to set up a safety system that will work for us.

There is no one perfect formula for every individual and every

situation that will work perfectly. Alert levels, however,

should proceed from green to yellow to red for everyone.

* Green is where everything is going along smoothly and you are

comfortable with your surroundings and the people you are

interacting with. While you may not know every person in the

room or at the party or wherever, you know some of them well

enough to be at ease and feel safe. This is where most of us

spend 95% of our time.

* Yellow should set off your first mind trigger to indicate that

you need to heighten your senses and awareness of where you are,

whom you are with and where your friends are or where they have

gone. Begin to formulate a plan of escape if your situation

degenerates to a point where you might need to evade danger.

Look for escape routes. Devise possible diversions to give you a

fraction of a second to make your move. Use extreme caution in

what you do and say and where people are located within your

close proximity.

* Red trigger is the point when your adrenaline starts pumping

and you reach the fight or flee stage and must quickly determine

how much is at stake. You must decide if you can flee or if you

will use every self defense mechanism at your disposal to fight

and then flee. Only you as an individual can make this extremely

important decision. Again, you must have mentally prepared for

situations of this type beforehand so your decision will be

instantaneous.

You will need to take some serious time to think about this.

Crime is something you must be conscious of. Be aware that it

will most likely touch your life. As I said in the beginning of

this article, a brutal assault has recently come to center stage

for me.

Use all the things we have talked about in prior articles and

also the techniques I will present in those ahead. Some depend

upon your speed, some depend on your situation and some depend

upon your nerve and personal attitudes. Many will use all the

tools available. Many are reluctant to even carry something as

innocuous as pepper spray.

Regardless of your personal attitudes, each of you has the

responsibility to create a plan that you have tailored to make

yourself as safe as can be no matter what situation you fall

into. If you do this, you WILL be way ahead of the pack.

Predators can sense when a person is not afraid. They will go to

an easier mark. It like the familiar story of the car thief and

the Club we all have heard. If you have one and use it, the car

thief will go to an easier car to steal. It really is that

simple.

There are plenty of tools to help, but you already own the most

important one. Your mind coupled with your attitude. I am sure

there are several different mixes of personality types that will

read this discussion. My intent is to provide information for all

kinds of readers with a source for assistance and resources for

all of you.

As always, stay safe and I will help you with many aspects of

your personal safety plan and offer all the tools at your

disposal and answer any question you may have on the use of any

device you desire to use.

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My name is Gerry Veale and I will educate any reader with weekly

articles on Personal Safety that explain how to use all the tools

of the trade; the most important being our common sense. I will

continue to write articles each week on a specific topic of

interest to many diverse readers. For instance, my article for

next week is entitled " HOT " TIPS ON PEPPER SPRAY: WHAT IS IT,

HOW DOES IT WORK AND WHEN SHOULD YOU USE IT? To learn more and

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