When In Deep Water, Where's Your Lifeline?

When In Deep Water, Where's Your Lifeline?

When In Deep Water, Where's Your Lifeline?  Tough call to make BUT the harsh reality in life is that any survival situation will quickly tell you WHO YOU ARE.  WHETHER it is losing a loved one to being diagnosed with a long-term illness, OR being in 'close shaves' with death, those experiences and life events can be deadly OR profound depending on HOW we react to them.  True, most people react with fear and emotional response rather than their cognitive reason, survival skills OR intuition📗📙📘

This is quite a surprising outcome from a recent research by U.S. psychologists WHOSE studies showed that only around 10 to 20 percent of untrained people can stay calm and think in the midst of a survival emergency.  So, that led me wondering, HOW are the majority of us reacting during the non-emergency situations IF we CAN'T keep calm WHEN our life depends on it???  Now, psychologists counsel us to believe that anything is possible.  As they say, THINGS THAT HAVE NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE HAPPEN ALL THE TIME.  Let's take that both for the good and the bad, to inject a balanced perspective.  On the intangibles, we are advised to STAY HUMBLE.  One old quote says:  EVERY TIME YOU STEP INTO A RIVER, IT'S A DIFFERENT RIVER. In short, we need to remember that we are NOT a master NO MATTER how much experience we have.  Got to LEARN and RELEARN!!!

Oh yes, this rings a bell.  We are encouraged to be ADAPTABLE.  Besides being organized, let's create and craft our goals, plot our game plan, BUT dude, let's NOT 'worship it'.  We are warned NOT to 'fall in love' even with our own game plan BUT instead, let us be flexible and never loose that 'BEGINNER's' mindset and be able to remap our plan over and over again, if need be.  As they say, THOSE WHO AVOID ACCIDENTS ARE THOSE WHO SEE THE WORLD CLEARLY😌😌😌

Oh yes, we are advised to STAY CALM [even if we get caught right at the eye of the storm].  One recurring post-mortem of our human behaviors after emergencies show that stress and paranoia are useless to the mind and instead, can even cause that crippling effect, kind of paralyzing you, literally speaking, during those 'emergency' moments.  BUT that DOESN'T fix things when we're in DEEP WATER❎❎❎

Our takeaway:  Before anything else gets us waylaid, first and foremost, let us take care of our own selves.  We are responsible ONLY for our own self.  We've got families and loved ones BUT the fact is no one is going to rescue you BUT yourself.  You CAN'T count on others [as much as your loved ones and family want to].  And to cap it all, let us LISTEN to our GUT, always.  Having intuition over impulse can save you WHEN you need it most dude.  So, WHEN IN DEEP WATER, WHERE'S YOUR LIFELINE???