MAINTAIN in self-defense is all about MAINTAINING position, balance, safety, and center.
\nWhen someone attacks us what we MAINTAIN is what we keep. We keep our position and the rushing attacker cannot take us down. We MAINTAIN our balance and we do not trip or fall. We MAINTAIN our safety and bad stuff doesn\u2019t happen to us. We MAINTAIN our center and we can move powerfully!
\nMAINTAIN in Life Defense is the same:
\nWhat we MAINTAIN we keep. MAINTAINING our position can be translated to MAINTAINING our rights as citizens, community members or even our voice through freedom of speech.
\nWe can MAINTAIN our balance as changes in government positioning of agendas and changes in policy effect our personal lives.
\nMAINTAINING our safety can be as simple as preparation for changing times, and anticipating shortages, restrictions, lockdowns etc\u2026and
\nMAINTAINING our center in the middle of global change, travel restrictions and policies so that our \u201cmovement\u201d is powerful and remains intact amidst social differences and change.
\nFREEDOM is MAINTAINED by us personally, not given to us, and not granted to us. Viktor Frankl a survivor of the holocaust, and author wrote in Man\u2019s Search for Meaning, \u201cEverything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms\u2014to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.\u201d
\nIf this is the ultimate FREEDOM, then we MAINTAIN it, it is ours. FREEDOM is ours to MAINTAIN. If we lose it, it is ours to lose.
\nAllen Hughes Life Defense Coach