{"id":16195,"date":"2020-06-03T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesurvivaljournal.com\/?p=16195"},"modified":"2022-06-13T13:48:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T17:48:36","slug":"situational-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesurvivaljournal.com\/situational-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Situational Awareness: Essential Urban Survival Skill"},"content":{"rendered":"

We always say, survival starts with preparation. You have to prepare, to survive in the long term. Not just prepare for the next hurricane, knowing financial preparedness<\/a> and learning urban survival skills to survive in everyday life \u2014 especially if you live in a crowded city.<\/p>\n

Situational awareness is a term primarily used in self-defense and law enforcement. The media and ridiculous reality “survival” shows have completely misrepresented what being a skilled survivalist are about.It’s not all about guns and gear. It’s not doing stupid stunts in the jungle.<\/p>\n

Building real survival skills through real disasters and tragedies that can occur any second around you. It happens every day. And they will keep happening.Earthquakes, Bombs, Hurricanes, Planes crashing in the mountains, and people getting mugged walking home from work. These things aren’t going away.<\/p>\n

So what are you going to do?<\/em><\/p>\n

Sounds like it would be smart to prepare for those things before they happen. So when they do happen. My chances of survival will be infinitely better for myself and my family.<\/p>\n

This post is about one of the most important situational awareness skills you can learn for urban survival.<\/p>\n

Let’s start with clarifying exactly, so what exactly is it? <\/em>what is situational awareness<\/em>?<\/p>\n

Situational awareness is a term primarily used in self-defense and law enforcement. According to<\/strong>\u00a0Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>, situational awareness is:<\/strong>\u00a0“Situational awareness<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0situation awareness<\/strong>\u00a0(SA<\/strong>) is the perception of environmental elements and events with respect to time or space, the comprehension of their meaning, and the projection of their future status.” It’s a heightened state of awareness.<\/p>\n

The opposite of awareness would be someone getting robbed right in front of them and not even seeing or realizing it. It’s been recognized that this is a skillset and is more important now than ever to develop a heightened sense of awareness.What is situational awareness in law enforcement and safety?<\/em><\/p>\n

There are a few other terms that people use to describe situational awareness. One of the common terms I hear from people is alertness. Being more alert to your surroundings. They are referring to the same thing.You can see a detailed list of synonyms\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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