Look in the dictionary and you would see that intuition is described as “the power of attaining direct knowledge without evident rational thought.” It can be seen as having a “hunch”, or a “feeling.” Intuition, in my opinion, is directly linked to instincts.

I am still surprised that some people find that they need more reason than personal safety to consider self defense training (sometimes misspelled self defence training). I know my situation is a little different; and perhaps anyone who has ever been the victim of a violent attack would think along the same lines as I do.

Some statistics show that an individual in America is attacked approximately every 24 seconds. Does this scare you? Even without this statistic, many people find that they feel frightened to go out at certain times, or feel a general sense of discomfort with their surroundings when they are away from home.

A sad fact that many people are probably unaware of is that stalking is a crime that is one the rise. In fact, according to the National Center for Victims of Crime, over one million women and approximately 400,000 men are stalked each and every year. This takes away the assumption that movie stars and other famous people are the only individuals who have stalkers.

The feeling that someone is following you is a scary thing. (Remember the post about the girl walking a few blocks to see her friend?) Being trained in hand to hand combat training, I can tell you that even I dislike the feeling of the hair on the back of my neck standing on end.

In order to not overwhelm you with one huge list, I have split these tips into two so you can fully digest them and hopefully implement as many of them as possible as soon as possible. Because home safety is not the only thing you need to think about, I also recommend that every person also learn how to fight.

When you study and learn martial arts moves; or make it through a tough combat training course, the last thing on your mind is that you may find yourself face to face with a bad guy on four legs.

I have been discussing the benefits of martial arts lately; and this post is going in the same direction. For whatever reason, I feel compelled to promote peace and harmony.

Put best, if every person on earth lived with more respect (for themselves, for others, for the earth) then we would have no violence; no wars; quite likely even no poverty.

I like to keep up on stories around the country in which self defense training (often misspelled self defence training) could have come in handy. I will never say what a victim should have done; I just find it necessary to look for glaring reasons why it is helpful to learn self defense; or at least some martial arts moves!