When it comes to “self-defense” APS it is 90% intellectual awareness and 10% physical. Avoiding a physical confrontation is a lot easier than 99.9% of what people think, and it is far less dangerous. Despite this fact, we must never neglect our bodies. We learn about fighting so we do not have to fight. “One cannot know peace without war.” We train the physical to be poise and ready. The combative arts are used as a way to prepare and condition the mind and body, not just for defensive combative purposes, but to live life in general. The combative arts are used as a physical training platform to maintain the body’s health.

“If our physical bodies are not healthy, we are not healthy.”

When all three (mental, emotional, and physical) are aligned, we begin to move easier, breathe easier, and live easier which results in the ability to handle “change.” This produces less stress, less anxiety, less chronic pain caused by stress, and more forward-moving towards the “personal” self-control state we seek.

The Art of Personal Safety Program is a 1:1 personalized, private training session that allows participants to learn and practice the 6 Core Disciplines at their own pace. The 1:1 ratio also provides committed focused training free from distractions and judgments, especially from “self” judgments and distractions. It is a good road map to achieving the APS goal of “personal” self-control. With “personal” self-control, comes the knowledge, understanding, and the acceptance of…

“CHANGE = STRESS = MENTAL, EMOTIONAL, AND PHYSICAL DISTURBANCES.”

Our lives evolve through “change.” Change is life moving. Change is constant. Some of us can deal with a little bit of change that happens for us in our lives, but most of us are not equipped to deal with tremendous, unexpected changes. When we can not deal with the changes we become stressed, and these stresses will cause mental, emotional, and physical disturbances… That’s just putting it nicely.

“Practicing the Art of Personal Safety will bring about personal balance, peace, and calm which will resonate happiness, health, and wealth within our inner world.”

It is a self-cultivation program that teaches us to be one with all things within our environment. Once understood we begin to let things be what they are without insisting or imposing our energy upon them. We accept and embrace this understanding without any doubt. The very same accepting and embracing of the fact that we cannot drink poison and expect our enemies to die. We also know how not to turn an anthill into a mountain. We have to accept that nothing lasts forever and we must not let the things that are “insignificant” drain us of our life energy.