Our extensive experience with deadly conflicts, encounters, and engagements over the past decade, combined with scientific research and findings, suggests that participants' state of mind and personal fears during a Troysgate-induced deadly event are significant factors influencing their actions and responses during their Troysgate Experience.
Initially, the participant may seem capable of handling a deadly situation but as the deadly situation escalates, the participant's “State of Mind” starts to diminish. The participant may lose access to skills and resources from their training, including their mental abilities such as logic and judgment, which result in the decline of logical responses. The "fight or flight" response is activated by lower-level brain functions within the mid-brain region.
Troysgate trained staff looks at each deadly situation closely and carefully analyzes the cause and effect of each action and response of each participant during the event. It is important to examine each action and response because the vantage point of the participants and who was in control of the situation can quickly change and switch back and forth between the participants until the event ends. When this happens, each of the participants struggle to gain control and their fear and anxiety become contributing factors. All too often when there are issues surrounding the outcome of a deadly encounter where there is loss of life, two important factors, control and state of mind, may strongly suggest that the participant that ended the event did so from a position of self-preservation.
The realities we observe from Troysgate induced deadly encounters can only be fully understood by knowing and understanding the science of the human brain and its effect on the human body.
Human "Fight or Flight" Response - our minds last line of defense is to survive life-threatening situations and our fear of dying. The key to human survival is located within the lower level of the brain (mid brain) - two almond-size masses called amygdala. They are the "gatekeepers" of human survival and are entirely responsible for the human "Fight or Flight" response and ultimately our only chance of survival. They do not need or require the authority, approval, authentic, or validation from any other part or parts of the brain. The amygdala does not use memory, logic, or reasoning and lacks emotions, feelings, and remorse. The amygdala act like a light switch that is either "on" or "off." Once a condition exists where human survival is at risk, the amygdala activates the human "Fight or Flight" response and take over complete control of the human brain and body. Once activated, it cannot be stopped or shutdown, until the threat situation is over, the human body becomes incapacitated, or survival of the event was unsuccessful and death may occur.
We methodically and strategically place the participant in stressful deadly conflict situations that will stimulate and activate the amygdala and their human stress responseThis is the magic of the Troysgate Experience.
This web page explores the dynamics of deadly conflict, emphasizing the significant role of an individual's state of mind and physiological responses during such encounters. It highlights how fear and anxiety can affect decision-making and control in life-threatening situations.