Mind Games: How to Mentally Prepare for Danger

[mmckee1952]

I have said it before and will likely say it until I am pushing up daisies: The brain is the most important tool when preparing for combat. While realistic training and proper gear are certainly important, if the brain is not ready to engage in conflict, the rest of the body will not proceed.

Anything can be a weapon if the brain makes it so. Or as John Steinbeck so eloquently stated, “The final weapon is the brain…all else is supplemental.”

While training law enforcement officers and armed citizens over the last few decades, I have encountered an interesting thought process time and again. It’s the thought that fighters are born, not created, and this is just not so. Whether a person is a fighter or a pacifist is a product of his or her life experience, cultural heritage, upbringing, environment, formal education and a number of other factors.

There is also a misconception that all police recruits are combative by nature; this is not true either. I have trained many young officers who had no intention of ever engaging in conflict, who wanted to get desk jobs or other low-hazard posts as soon as they got out of the academy.


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[Rabbitcreekok]

Dave Spaulding says good stuff.

 

[Roguestew]

I've read his " Handgun Combatives" about half a dozen times. I really like his style.

 

[kerb]

.. A proper combative mindset huh?

Not quite sure what to make of that.

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[TheCocaColaSanta]

This is an awesome 13 part lecture series if and when ever you have time to listen to it. I have downloaded it as individual Mp3 files to a thumb drive so that I can listen to it while driving. Lt. Col. Dave Grossman is a retired Airborne Army Ranger and a clinical psychologist who trains military, police and civilian personnel on developing what he calls the warriors mindset. He is also the originator of the "Sheep, wolves, and sheepdog" theory.

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