I just created a new group on google plus called “Portland Being Prepared.”

Share your ideas, projects, classes on being prepared in Portland, Oregon. If your interests are emergency preparedness, prepping or resilience then this is the place for you.

You can upload video’s, importland links, or post to the calender up coming classes.

You’re having “one of those days”, the kind of day when it would have been better to stay in bed, turn off the phone and blissfully hideaway from the world.  But you didn’t, there are kids to feed, and money to make.  You fight traffic to get to a job, where you do the work of three people for a boss that doesn’t appreciate you.

Or it is much simpler than that and you just need a moment to release some stress in your life.

So what happens when the adrenaline kicks in? In the simplest of terms, the blood starts flowing. The important factor is that the blood leaves the brain, and you tap into a more primal thinking.  And you lose the ability to make strong calculated decisions. Continue reading →