Life saving tips: Even when you are faced with someone who has the most twisted and dangerous intentions, you can likely save your own life by trusting your own gut and acting on that terrible fear. Like you are now probably aware of (what with all the examples the media provides), a dangerous attacker can look no different than you or I, but your brain is undoubtedly paying attention to all the red, warning signs, which signals your intuition.

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Basic knowledge of surviving a natural disaster will save your life if you’re ever in the unlikely situation. Knowing what to say to your kidnapper can increase your chances of being freed unharmed. You can avoid being kidnapped in the first place by using basic self-defense tricks. You can avoid looking like an easy target by being confident and assertive. Of course, these are only some of the many detailed survival tips in this article. Share this with your friends and family – you just might save a life. Below are 13 tips that just might save your life one day.

13. Trust your intuition because fear is a life-saving gift 

No matter what, you must always trust your gut. Never minimize your intuition or tell yourself you’re being silly. In the book The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker (a man who Oprah Winfrey called the nation’s leading expert on violent behavior) the first chapter follows a true story of a 27 year old woman named Kelly who trusted her intuition – and it saved her life. After a stranger in her apartment building offered to help Kelly bring her groceries to her door, he entered her apartment and sexually assaulted her. After the assault, the man promised he wouldn’t hurt her (an unsolicited promise) but then closed the window. Why would he close the window? Kelly’s intuition told her that he most certainlywas going to kill her (he would only close the window so that neighbors wouldn’t hear her screams). When he instructed her to wait in the bedroom while he went to the kitchen to “get something to drink” (he was really going to get a knife) Kelly disobeyed his instructions and got up, and very quietly followed directly behind him so that he wouldn’t see or hear her, and when he turned to go into the kitchen, Kelly left the apartment. Sure enough, as Kelly walked away she heard the sound of her attacker rifling through her knife drawer. He was going to go back into Kelly’s bedroom to kill her.

Gavin de Becker explains that this type of intuitive, profound fear that Kelly had when she realized her attacker planned on killing her is “the powerful ally that says ‘do what I tell you to do.’ Sometimes, it tells a person to play dead or to stop breathing, or to run or scream or fight, but to Kelly it said, ‘just be quiet and don’t doubt me and I’ll get you out of here.’” Because Kelly listened to her intuition and acted on it, she saved her own life. So the next time a stranger offers you unsolicited help with your groceries in your apartment building or in a grocery store parking lot, and something seems off, listen to your gut. Whenever something doesn’t quite feel right about someone, that’s the gift of fear. Gavin de Becker states that intuition is the cornerstone of safety: “we react to the unusual, which is a signal that there might be something worth predicting … we intuitively evaluate people all the time, quite attentively, but they only get our conscious attention when there is a reason.”