Not exact matches
Usually it's a healthy response, a normal
bodily reaction to
stress.
A fight - or - flight
stress response, mediated by the sympathetic nervous system, creates almost instantaneous physical
reactions, including increased heart rate and blood pressure, changes in attention, memory, and other
bodily functions.
From there, it can directly affect the many
bodily reactions and systems, including emotions, memory, blood pressure and heart rate, breathing, hormones, and
stress.
In accordance with the literature it seems possible to draw conclusions from
bodily reactions to level of
stress in dogs.»
In the state of restful awareness you experience during meditation, the
bodily reactions are exactly the opposite of those created by the
stress response: the breathing slows, blood pressure decreases, and
stress hormone levels fall.