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Basic Survival Skills You Need to Learn

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By Rahau MihaiPublished 2 years ago 4 min read
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We live in a world that is characterized by contemporary comforts, which is fantastic. We can use modern technology to navigate, keep warm, locate shelter, and even acquire the food and water our bodies need. While this is perfectly OK, have you considered the potential for natural disasters?

What if a severe storm wipes off power? What happens if your phone's battery runs out in the middle of nowhere? To overcome these unavoidable life crises, you will undoubtedly need a few talents.

Everyone should be aware of and practice a variety of fundamental survival skills. While most of them seem to be unimportant to learn, depending on the scenario, they might save your life. This article will go over some of the most important survival skills to acquire.

Importantly, all you have is a false feeling of security until you walk out into the field and practice any survival skills.

Everyone should learn survival skills.

To prepare yourself for anything may come your way, here are some fundamental skills you may acquire on your own to manage most survival situations:

1. Discovering water

Water is frequently the first thing people search for while trying to survive. Nothing is more important to survival than clean, drinkable water.

Finding food and water is a skill that humans utilized on a daily basis for survival but has now become obsolete. While there is no certain technique to find water, streams are almost always located downwards or in crevasses where slopes meet. If you can't discover a water source, you'll have to look around more. Water is more likely to be found in lush environments with green plants and animals.

You may gather clean water from rain, snow, and dew, among other sources. You can squeeze water from vines and thistles under harsh situations.

Above all, don't drink any water you come across. Purify or boil it as much as possible. Now we'll move on to the next survival skill.

2. Lighting and maintaining a fire

Even if you come upon a running stream with what seems to be pure water, make an effort to make it drinkable. To boil your water in the outdoors, you'll need to know how to light a fire. Fire may also provide life-saving warmth, aid with cooking, deter predators, and even draw attention to your position.

While lighting a fire with a lighter is simple and fast, learning how to build a fire from scratch takes practice and patience. Making a spark-generating flint is one of the approaches. You may also make sparks by short-circuiting your battery.

The most essential thing is to practice and learn how to ignite a fire in many types of weather. There are several methods for generating fire by friction.

3. Food scavenging

While you can go for a few weeks without food if you have clean, clean drinking water, knowing how to hunt and forage for food is essential.

While in the outdoors, you may consume a variety of edible wild plants. However, you must be very vigilant; else, you may end yourself eating toxic fruits.

You'll also have to study and master hunting, trapping, fishing, and any other food-gathering techniques.

4. Constructing a shelter

After you've got water and food, the next most apparent item you need is a place to shelter from the elements. The sort of shelter you can create and how you build it are totally dependent on where you are, how long you want to remain, and the resources available.

Branch poles are required, as well as garments, a tent, or leaves to cover the final construction. There are plenty more aspects to consider. For example, the distance to a water supply and the risk of fire in the local vicinity.

5. First-aid basics

When you are ill or wounded, it might be difficult for emergency personnel to reach you. Knowing how to provide first aid might save a life in such an emergency.

Aside from understanding how to utilize a first aid kit, you should be able to think of inventive methods to provide first aid utilizing what you have on hand. Making a brace out of tree branches and gathering natural medication are two examples.

Last thoughts

Basic survival skills are an excellent approach to prepare for the unexpected. Practicing and perfecting these abilities might help you become more connected to nature and save your life if anything goes wrong.

If you want to move beyond being a novice at this or any other talent and strive toward true mastery, you'll need a more comprehensive and strong method. You need a method to hack your brain in order to build a winning attitude.

A winning attitude is one that permits you to reach a flow state whenever you choose. This is accomplished via subconscious mind programming.

Even though it may seem thus, the majority of what you do throughout a typical day is not freely selected by your normal awake awareness. The fact is that the majority of what you do on a daily basis is automated. A good illustration of this is when you're traveling in your vehicle and you become bored and start daydreaming. Before you know it, you're many miles down the road with no recollection of driving those past few miles.

So, who precisely was driving while your awake awareness was somewhere else, and how did you prevent an accident? Your subconscious mind had the upper hand. You'd previously spent years training your subconscious to handle with a wide variety of probable driving circumstances, so it had no issue grabbing the wheel while your conscious mind was distracted. To put it another way, you were able to perform successful activities without even thinking about it.

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