Why Life Defense? You may ask, Is Life Defense some sort of a self-defense program, a be all you can be life coaching system, or just another pop psychology platform? Maybe it's another jump up and down, hands in the air shouting out your newly discovered purpose in life seminar? Perhaps it’s a spiritual journey of enlightenment where hours of sitting in lotus position, and humming mantras will give you inner enlightenment, or maybe even the newest fad cult where close cut hair styles and pony tails are all the rage.
Although many good people find great skill, tools, and insight pursuing some of the above. No, Life Defense isn’t that. Let's look.
Life Defense is the conversation of, “Life Conflict,” and the PRINCIPLES used to successfully survive and thrive in this essential environment of conflict. Simple.
Life Defense recognizes that in fact nothing is accomplished without an environment of opposition or conflict. Try walking without pushing against the earth and gravity. Try breathing without struggling against the outside pressure. Try accomplishing anything in sports, music, dance, business, or family without an element of conflict. Impossible.
Yet, conflict is what humans tend to avoid, push off, ignore, and run from. Life Defense answers the simplest of questions, “If all motion, and accomplishment is achieved in this environment of conflict, why not study the PRINCIPLES in which all success resides?”
The very survival of our species, and your ability to sit and read this book, or listen, proves that your ancestors used these principles to bring you to this moment. You are the perfect evidence of Life Defense.
From the time of spears, stones, and bows and arrows your ancestors used these principles to survive, thrive, and multiply eventually bringing you into this existence. Agreed, the PRINCIPLES they used were applied in the realm of self-defense, and battle by defending their homes and villages against invading armies, marauding hoards and even mother nature herself in the form of floods, earth quakes and tsunamis. However those same PRINCIPLES apply today in every interaction of life.
You perhaps instinctively know that CREATING SPACE from an oncoming car will preserve your life. You may also know that DISRUPTING an unwanted flirtation by firmly saying, “No means no,” might dissuade the wrong person from getting the wrong idea about your relationship. It may even occur to you that REDIRECTING a conversation with a team member will get you back on track to accomplish your shared objective.
However, consider that knowing never made a difference in life. Knowing is not enough, doing is where life is lived. It is in the doing that everything actually happens, and the better we do the more we accomplish, the happier we are, and the more successful we are at life.
In your study of Life Defense you may take a passive role. You may acknowledge that the PRINCIPLES of Life Defense are at least good common sense. You may even believe that knowing these PRINCIPLES is key to your success in life.
Although somewhat true that knowing is better than not knowing, doing is best. So in this upcoming year plan on “doing” Life Defense. Meaning applying PRINCIPLES perfected throughout all civilizations on all continents that SAVE LIFE over millions of years.
Travis the Director of HR at a top notch University in the West told me today that Life Defense had given him “longevity in his position.” We refer to this as SAVING LIFE. Much like the LIFE SAVED over millennia that brought us all to this point, PRINCIPLES of CONFLICT will add “longevity” to your existence.
If you take nothing else from this today, remember…Life Defense Saves Life…
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