Some features of psychological training in special services

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Why do we even wonder about psychological stability in various situations? What does this psychological stability give us?

Undoubtedly, we try to avoid our own discomfort in emerging extreme situations, but for what other reasons is it important for us to remain calm?

The methodology of training professional intelligence officers says that when we find ourselves in a stressful or border-stressful situation, a number of effects immediately appear that are very undesirable:

• violation of the proportions of the relationship between the main and secondary tasks;
• loss of the original goal; the superiority of triggered instincts over the original goal;
• the occurrence of psychopathological disorders;
• decrease in work efficiency;
• sharp fading of combat activity, up to its complete extinction ("stupor");
• Loss of control over the situation;

Thus, the loss of psychological stability during stressful moments can lead not only to the failure of the operation, but also to the loss of life, health, both in wartime and in peacetime. After all, stress occurs mainly at key moments in our lives.

How can we minimize these effects, reduce them to zero?

Sleep, fighter. Sleep is the foundation of natural stress tolerance. That is why military discipline includes the mandatory regulation of sleep and wakefulness. Studies have shown that highly professional personnel deprived of sleep retains combat effectiveness for a maximum of three days, after which it becomes psychologically and physically unusable.

It is recommended to sleep the number of hours that is a multiple of three, that is, it is better to sleep 6 hours than seven. Studies have shown that 91% of personnel who had the ability to sleep exactly 3 hours a day, remained fully operational for 9 days.

Do not forget about the rest. In fact, rest is an opportunity to stay alone with you, devote time to some pleasant soul and body activity, switch. Allow yourself to live a length of time leisurely, without rush and stress.

Thus, we can conclude that sleep and rest are a necessary component of combat stability and helps the psyche to better adapt to stressful situations.

The flexibility of the psyche is manifested in the immobility of the body. One of the most difficult military specialties is the sniper specialty. The sniper has no right to emotions. The initial training of a sniper includes a long training course in the field of maintaining position. Trained shooting resistance in various positions - standing, sitting, lying down. Each of the positions is fixed for a long time. A sniper in a combat situation must be able to track his target for days, while lying. From the ability to stay in one position for a long time, not to respond to external stimuli, and "sniper calm" is born. If you want to be resistant to stress, I recommend resorting to static exercises, such as meditation or yoga. They will be able to develop additional opportunities for self-control in you. Increased efficiency and perseverance.

You see more - you are less afraid. What are we, in fact, afraid of? We are afraid of unknown, unexpected, unpredictability. Why do such situations arise? Because we are not observant enough, we are not attentive enough, not enough, see, not hear enough. Special services teach to expand peripheral vision. Studies have shown that a fighter who is better at controlling the environment is less stressed. The expansion of the fields of vision in the special services is trained in two stages. The first stage is a simple exercise in the form of back-to-back walking. In this case, you can not turn your head either to the right or to the left. Usually, after several days of such training, the fighter begins to see more and better.

The second stage is that the fighter does the same, but at the same time fires at the target with a pistol, simultaneously trying to consider the environment. A similar method has been used for quite some time in deep intelligence units.
Of course, I do not urge anyone to walk backwards and shoot at the target with a pistol, but the ability to see from a wide viewing angle allows you to constantly monitor the situation around us.
Alternatively, you can train a couple of minutes a day like this: turn on the TV, take a book in your hand and read it, while simultaneously capturing the picture of the TV with your side vision.

It’s hard to learn - easy in battle. Many times has already been said about this, but I will say it again. The body should periodically be in a state of stress, in a state of extreme physical exertion. Military studies have shown that fighters who are constantly in the zone of borderline physical exertion are much better adapted to stress conditions than those who trained moderately.

Oddly enough, judging by the research, the fighter's stress resistance was influenced not so much by the loads in the field of full contact hand-to-hand combat, but by running and power loads. Therefore, I recommend running every morning in the morning, playing sports and sparing moderately. This will add to your self-confidence, physical health and strong resistance to stress.

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