From the Editor
Volume 2, Issue 1
Independence
Welcome to the first issue of our second year at Mindset Self-Defense, and
thank you to all our readers for your support! To all who have attended
our classes, workshops and lectures, I applaud you for taking responsibility
for your own personal safety!
What does taking responsiblity for your own personal safety really mean?
Clearly, it means shifting the odds of attack on women by increasing thier
situational awareness, thereby reducing opportunities for an attack to take
place. It also means possessing a personal level of practiced skill sets to
counter an attack with something more effective than panic. However,
taking such resposibility means so much more.
For one thing, it means a broader experience of personal independence.
Aquiring self-defense skill sets opens doors of life experience. It means you
are better equipped to handle the world, and that your world can increase in
size more safely, be that of your own local environment or elsewhere.
Taking responsiblity for your own personal protection also means you do
not have to rely on others or chance for your safety. It means you can do
more of what you want when you want. It means you are becoming more
independent, more free.
Aquiring personal protection skills means that you are not OK with the
status quo that women are victims of attack, domestic violence or rape,
and you are doing your part to prevent this from happening.
Protecting yourself against attack also means that you are setting a healthy
example of self-respect, boundary and personal empower