Easy 6: w.i.d.t.h.6. Chapter 6: Check your 6!
What is 6? Six is the most important principle of self-protection and the hardest to teach. It entails being aware of your surroundings, what I call “SIXuational Awareness.” Checking your 6, meaning being aware of the people and environmental dangers that can be all around you. It also includes learning to trust your 6th Sense. What is a 6th Sense? It’s a type of intuition. Scientifically, it’s a part of your autonomic nervous system that developed from evolution for recognizing danger. For your sixth sense to work, all of your other senses have to also be engaged. This means not voluntarily eliminating senses when you are in public. In other words, don’t stare at your phone, don’t walk around with ear buds in, don’t wear mittens that reduce your tactile abilities, don’t compromise your sensory perception or reaction times with chemicals, don’t deliberately handicap yourself and make yourself an easier victim. In the last few decades scientists have started to discuss “mindfulness” in everything from mental health to self-defense to dieting; put simply mindfulness means you are engaging all of your senses in the present moment. When you do that, a piece of your autonomic nervous system can detect things that are out of the ordinary in your environment which could pose a threat to you. That is not paranoia, it’s your sixth sense. Most victims of violent crimes knew something was out of the ordinary before they got attacked, but they did not trust their sixth sense that was trying to tell them that something was wrong.
This is the hardest thing to teach, because in the military it comes naturally to survivors of combat. People in combat with no intuition and no ability to detect when things are out of place or a threat, do not tend to survive. So, the combat veterans who actually manage to come home, usually have a very acute sixth sense, as do veteran police officers, survivalists and construction workers who get highly attuned to their surroundings in order to be safe. Most people who work in safe settings are rarely called upon to develop their sixth sense, and this is why they become victims more often.
The best self-protection technique is the one you don’t have to use because you avoided a dangerous situation. The best way to avoid dangerous situations is to learn to trust your intuition. If something doesn’t feel right about a situation or a person, leave. Identify things that are out of place using your eyes, your ears, your nose, even your taste can help you identify threatening situations, substances, toxins in the air, et cetera. Embarrassment is better than death, so if something doesn’t feel correct, then leave the setting. If you can’t leave, then get focused, engage all your senses and prepare yourself for violence. Get a weapon, create a situation where you can take the initiative away from a predator (ambush), get out of the line of the threat using circular motion and utilize torque to inflict damage to their head or neck. There is no such thing as “cheating” in real self-defense. If you are not cheating in combat, you’re not trying, and you’re probably not winning. In a real justified self-defense situation where the bad guy is trying to rape, maim or kill you, nothing you do to them will be off limits, so don’t constrain yourself by made-up rules, the predator won’t. Being SIXuationally Aware is your greatest opportunity to defeat a violent criminal predator or violent crazy person, it gives you a couple extra seconds, and real self-defense situations are decided by a couple of seconds.
Don’t handicap your senses with hoodies, ear buds, by staring at your phone, or altering your balance, reactions and awareness with drugs or alcohol. Check your 6. Trust your intuition. CHEAT!
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