There are many misconceptions on avoiding attacks and most of them are ego based or are made only to justify a training regime.

The most dangerous animal in the jungle is not the tiger, it is the poisonous beetle you step on without knowing you have taken your last step.

Here are ways to avoid becoming a target which can serve you throughout your life.

1. Be on your own mission – Aggression is nothing but fear masked. Choose to be calm and have a direction. Nothing signals easy pray more than moving aimlessly through a street or looking around with eyes void of purpose. Our bodies shows our intent in a very obvious way and knowing where you are or at least where you are headed helps in showing the circling buzzards you are not a walking corpse but an alert and active member of the human race.
2. See the people – One way we hide from the danger is by averting our gaze from it and trying to see the good in people. Even people who put pineapple on pizza …. If we see the people and dangers around us and acknowledge them without fear, we strip away much of the affect fear usually has on us. It is simple to write but not to do. Imagine when in a calm environment a bad situation. An attack with emotional subtext and go through the story in your mind where you go through the attack and lose. Do this from time to time and each time vary the story and allow yourself to go into the well and to climb out of it. This takes time but is well worth the investment.
3. Letting go of the noise – Throughout the day and throughout our lives, we gather excess tension and mental noise from people and our surroundings. The more we allow ourselves to carry this noise, the less we can see through the dusty visors of our souls and the less we can act through the gunk in our joints and tissue from letting other people’s noise into our heats and minds. Each one of us must find how to recognize this noise and then release it without carving another entry port for the noise to return.
4. Stay comfortable – Dancing with a partner we adjust and carry ourselves to allow the duality to shine. This creates both beauty and attachment between the dancers and we carry this way of acting and reacting to daily life sometimes too far. Accommodating a dancer who wishes harm to you due to the regularity of acting proper or nice will make you a target for them and others in the sphere around you. It is good to be nice but it is good to be honest much more. Make yourself comfortable with being nice to yourself first and remember it is much easier to respectfully refuse an old woman asking you to look into a note she is holding close to her body and at an angle than to reach your hotel and find out you were pick pocketed and someone else has your wallet and keys in a place where you need a translator to speak one sentence.