TO defend your self, implies you know what is happening

To defend oneself it implies that you know what is happening, or else you’re not defending yourself. The key word here is “knowing”, and on this note learning how to handle that knowledge.
The mind and body work on association, so it recognizes situations and uses past experiences to handle coming situations, be it learning how to use the new tv-remote or something more serious like a person threatening your life. Even though both situations can be stressful, the strongest impact of stress is probably the threat on your life. Antonovsky (ref) states that all things in life stress an individual, it’s a question of how well the individual coopts with the situation and one key factor of handling a stressful situation is the sense of coherence; the understanding/knowing of how/why the situation is as it is.
To get to this knowledge and implement it scenarios have been used by professionals for many years. Police, ambulance, firefighters have all done scenario training were the situation was simulating real life situations. Being it as first responders or taking over for a colleague, seeing and working the scenario helped getting to know many facets of a scenario. Thus bringing knowledge to the real life scenario.
For many years Tony Blauer has been stating that the “scenario dictates”. Stating that any motivation or decision will take it’s offspring in the scenario.
Scenarios will also show the evolution from start to end, thus connecting “the dots”. Getting this knowledge is essential, since it’s brings us to the ques and pre-ques . The ques / pre-ques are the signals that indicate something could be on its way, be it a punch or a head but.
This brings us back to the start of the blog; knowing what is happening.