SPACE, Your SPACE

SPACE, Your SPACE A young girl no more than 12 years of age is alone in a park starring dreamily at the dimming sky as the sun sets. She has remained a few minutes longer than her friends, fixated on the beautiful sunset. Suddenly she senses the predator’s gaze, and before he can approach CREATES SPACE, a PRINCIPLE of self-defense and Life Defense, by running across the street into a cell phone store, alerting the staff and borrowing a phone to call her parents… In Life Defense we are a little obsessed with SPACE, creating it, diminishing it and management it…Obviously, we have a thing about SPACE! In life what is killing you, disrupting you, or choking you out? Consider that you control SPACE. “All right Allen, so what about my 2 year old throwing a major tantrum? How do I CREATE SPACE when I’ve got to be there watching him? I cannot escape his tantrums, he screams so loud until I give him what he wants, a toy, a treat, a video…” In life and Life Defense you control SPACE. Two year old, or 13 year old. It’s your SPACE and what will you do with it? When I married my current wife she had 4 kids. They were all pre-teen or teen aged, and hadn’t had a dad for 12 years. The three redheaded boys, that’s right, you can’t make this stuff up, were loud, opinionated and full of energy. I’d seen them run circles around other adults playing off each other in variations of fighting, joking, manipulating and defiance. One evening the teen aged girl spent the entire night in a room next to ours pounding on the wall in response to some perceived unfair treatment over something…She pounded a hour after hour on our adjacent wall through the night. We chose to turn on a movie and enjoy the added sound effects. In the early morning the pounding was gone. We controlled the SPACE. Agreed that ignoring the incessant wall pounding wouldn’t work in every circumstance. It’s really more about the meaning we gave it, we didn’t get upset, and we slept (eventually). What it really came down to for us was what it meant and how would we respond to it? CREATE SPACE or just control it. At some level, your SPACE is yours and even in extreme abuse and assault all there is sometimes is your ability to control your space and survive. Allen Hughes Life Defense #lifedefense #warriorway #createspace