To mentally prepare for whatever may come your way is very vital. It means having a plan in place for any potential SHTF situation.
Mentally preparing can reduce your stress and anxiety. It is also assuring that you are set for whatever comes your way. As a result, it can improve your mental health.
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How to Mentally Prepare for Any SHTF Situation
To mentally prepare for the worst is something that all preppers do. Set yourself up for success by having a plan. It can reduce your amount of stress and anxiety.
By being ready for anything, you reduce the anxieties that come with SHTF situations.
Knowing that you have planned what you need to survive allows you to let go of some of the fear and panic. Anxiety and panic can come with shortness of breath, heart palpitations, and conflicts.
As preppers, we tend to view catastrophes and tragedies through different eyes.
First, we’re preparing ourselves should anything like what we see out there happen to us where we are.
Second, the anxiety about these events motivates us to prepare.
Preparing is a bit of a coping strategy for many, as insurance is an investment in peace of mind.
Having it allows us to let go. Having a plan lets us let go of the stress and anxiety of the dreadful things that could occur. Then, if something worse happens, we’re ready.
Finally, we can acknowledge that we have what we need to deal with anything that has it bad.
We hope we never need our prepared trauma kits, but it will mean the difference to us or someone else the minute we do.
Having it allows us to let go of the stress and anxiety of the horrific things that could occur.
If something worse happens, we’re ready.
We can acknowledge that we have what we need to deal with anything that has it bad.
But what if our preps are never enough?
Anxiety can be a huge hindrance when it comes to SHTF planning. It can put us in panic and release stress hormones that can ramp us up even more frantic.
But, by acknowledging that we have what we need to deal with in any situation, we can let go. We can let go of some of that anxiety and focus on what’s important.
In this blog post, let’s examine the common anxieties that go hand in hand with prepping. Then, I’ll give you tips on how to prepare mentally. So you can do your prepping goals without feeling overwhelmed or crippled by anxiety.
6 SHTF Skills to Mentally Prepare for Any SHTF Situation
- Stay focused—plot along to the larger goal of self-sufficiency. And be independent of a system destined to fail.
- Do not let your anxiety become so overwhelming. But, do not let it cripple your forward progress.
- Take the time to appreciate what you have accomplished. Appreciate as well everything you already have in place.
- Take the time to breathe and avoid herd mentality.
- Prepare for what you will face, turning crippling anxiety into motivating pressure.
- Remember that some anxiety is good – it helps us do good and work faster.
Beware of Herd Mentality
Social learning is one of the things that exacerbate our anxiety.
We witness other people panic buying and suppose that there must be a disaster on the horizon. But this may not always be the case, and the panic buying will cause a pandemic.
Toilet Paper Shortage 2021
Consider the COVID 19 Toilet Paper shortage.
People who stockpile influenced panic buying more than any proximity to real danger.
After all, the Shortage of wood pulp was not on the list of Covid symptoms. But we still see the herd of people snapping up the inventory.
And we reflect on our supply and wonder if we shouldn’t grab whatever else we can.
Should you grab a little extra toilet paper, food, hand sanitizer, or cleaning products?
The panic-buying leads to empty shelves. It then leads to supply shortages. It is causing the feeling that the problem is more significant than it is.
We function as a herd but don’t have to live in a herd mentality.
Most prepared people explain what brought them to prepping. And they explain how they managed through a disaster.
It often begins with – everybody was panicking.
When you see everyone running away from something, you bet – that we are in a herd mentality. So we join stampedes even before knowing why we’re running. We instinctively do this because it’s survival behavior.
Prepping allows us to go beyond much of this herd thinking.
It is wise to apply wisdom if we know that the storm is coming from the gathering clouds. So use the knowledge of – what happens with gathering clouds – and get on higher ground.
When we look at the world, we are stricken with anxiety.
Because we see so many people unaware of the same threats we perceive, it is wise to shed our herd mentality.
We plan our preps and security.
So run with the herd when you have to – but understand why you are running. And do not let the anxiety of the pack change your course!
End of The World Preparation: How to Prepare for the End of the World
Spoiler Alert: You won’t be able to prepare for the world’s future end.
Your preparations won’t matter.
Your efforts won’t matter when the apocalypse occurs. It won’t count on some other great global catastrophe.
If a comet hits a planet and creates an extinction-level event, what you stored in your bug-out won’t matter. How many beans and ramen you’ve stockpiled would not count.
Focus on what is most likely to happen to you.
Don’t spend all your time prepping for some massive collapse or disaster.
The disaster most likely to occur is more local to you.
Don’t focus on Extinction-Level Events.
The name extinction-level event is such because it leads to extinction.
It is the process of a species, family, or other groups of animals or plants becoming extinct.
Given this information, don’t expect a mass extinction event. Nor prepare for armageddon. It will fill you with unendurable dread.
Something like this could happen. But what you have on your shelves will not likely matter to ease anxiety.
In your preparation, concentrate on the most probable disasters you’ll face.
An Icelandic volcano erupted and released enough ashes into the atmosphere. As a result, it shut off sunlight in Europe in 536 CE.
Byzantine historian Procopius saw it. He described it as the sun giving forth its light without brightness like the moon. It lasted for 18 months.
Pestilence raged in the form of the Justinian plague.
It later came again and became the bubonic plague.
It was one of the worst periods in history: with no sun, food, or known cure for the disease. Societal Declined.
There have also been conventional wars. It was terrible if you were a Roman!
But, things weren’t too bad for you if you lived somewhere else. Even major global events don’t always spell Romans’ end of the world a decade later. Things got back to normal even though its government collapsed.
Don’t over-prepare for some imaginary collapse or calamity. The disaster that will occur is closer to you.
If you live in a storm-prone region:
Prepare for the worst storm before considering unlikely possibilities,
If you live in the countryside:
You won’t have to worry about civil unrest as your city relatives will need to do so.
If a nationwide power outage occurs every ten years for the last three decades:
It is more critical for you to prepare for a tragedy than any spectacular but less probable event.
Doomsday may be looming on the horizon, but that doesn’t mean you have to go down without a fight.
By preparing mentally for the world’s end, you can face whatever comes your way – with courage and strength.
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The end of the world is a scary thought for many people. For some, it’s a passing worry that comes and goes; for others, it’s a full-time obsession. No matter where you fall on the spectrum, it’s essential to be mentally prepared for whatever may happen.
We’ve outlined some tips for getting your mind in the right place to face whatever comes your way.
Comment below and let us know what your favorite mental preparation strategy is!
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