Session 9: Body's Natural Reaction

All right, let's talk about these reactions these natural reactions that we're going to have to natural stimuli, the instinctive reactions. The things that happen automatically. When we start talking about them inside of most of our personal defense training programs the first thing we have to say is it's important to remember that there are, depending on how you break them down dozens or scores of things that we could say happen. When you get startled, when you get caught off guard when you get scared, when you're in a fight or flight mode. We can look at a whole bunch of things.

And a lot of them are incredibly subtle. Some of them are chemical changes inside of the body. There are external things that are very obvious, gross motor skill things. Some of them have a big effect on things we do when we're training on gear selection on technique selections. Some of them have no effect whatsoever.

Some of them, we can try to control. Some of them we can try to integrate, some of them we can try to counter some of them we just have to accept there's nothing we can do about them. So when we start sifting through all of the instinctive reactions, we have to have a reason for focusing on any individual one or set of them. And there are six that we talk about a lot. The reason we talk about those six is that they are absolutely relevant to personal defense.

They are absolutely relevant to how we train and how we should choose to fight. They're relevant even to things like gear selection, they're certainly relevant to technique selection. In some cases they're relevant to our tactics how we're going to think about fighting in certain scenarios that are plausible. They, they all have a natural survival positive. They have a reason that we should be really happy that these natural reactions happen and they all affect the way we train.

There's a, there's a seventh one that also can play a strong role specifically when it comes to firearms training. So we've got six that are kind of universal for personal defense in general. And then another one that really is important for firearms training as well. So those are the seven we're going to talk about and we're going to break those seven things down into two sets, and we refer to them as the external and the internal natural reactions.