How to Create A Survival Mindset

You can have the best weapons, a good water supply, adequate food (make sure you read the top 10 foods every family should store in a food crisis here), and even an indestructible fortress, but in the event of a disaster these things mean nothing if you don’t have the correct survival mindset.  Creating the survival mindset is something that lies within each and every animal on planet Earth.

The will to survive is in all of us, but we must know how to control our survival mindset when threats arise.  If you allow survival mode to take over there is a good chance that you will do something stupid because your brain just isn’t functioning properly.  When your brain is presented with a threat it will go into fight-or-flight mode.

Adrenaline is dumped into your bloodstream, your muscles contract, and all of the blood in your body is shunted to your vital organs.  You are not reasoning at your best when all of these things are happening to your body.  Trained professionals understand that the key to surviving in a threatening situation is to keep a clear head and make informed but fast decisions.

Control Yourself and You Will Control the Situation

When you find yourself in situation where you are in fight-or-flight mode then you must create the proper survival mindset.  That does not mean jumping to be the hero, or to pull your weapon.  The correct survival mindset is to control your breathing, reason through what is in front of you, select the correct course of action, and then finally take that action.

This may sound like a long process, but trained professionals can make these evaluations in under one second.  Soldiers and police officers have to do this on a daily basis.  The ability to quickly and efficiently evaluate a situation and take the correct course of action is what makes a good soldier or police officer.  It will also keep you alive.

Match Your Mindset with the Threat that You are Facing

Different situations may call for a different survival mindset.  If you are in immediate danger than evaluating the situation well and taking the correct course of action may take milliseconds, but in post-disaster environment some threats aren’t as immediate.  You may find yourself living in a world with no established government or formal monetary system.

If you do happen to find you and your family in a situation like this then you will have to modify your survival mindset.  Surviving in the long haul will probably be the greatest challenge that you face.  By taking it one day at a time you will drastically improve your chances of making through.  The boredom and the inability to go outside can make people do some pretty crazy things so you will want to hold daily family gatherings to make sure that everyone is okay both physically and most importantly, mentally.

Taking it day by day will help, but you must also celebrate the small victories.  Celebrating something like the rain or another year together is what will ultimately get you through the hard times.  Without the small victories along the way it will be hard to cope with life in a collapsed world.

It’s Do or Die

Creating the survival mindset within yourself and those around you is crucial when it comes to facing outside threats.  Those threats may be naturally occurring or manmade.  Facing them head on is made much easier when you and your group have the right survival mindset in place.  If the world economy collapses or some idiot decides to blow the world back into the stone ages, the correct survival mindset will help keep you and those you are with alive to rebuild.

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