The problem with fear in dogs is that the fear may lead to aggression when your dog's fight or
flight response kicks in.
When humans encounter the stress of an intense situation, the fight or
flight response kicks in and we often hold our breath, or breathe more rapidly and shallow.
Not exact matches
When stress hormones
kick in — triggering our
flight or fight
response — people get nervous, tight, and fail to perform their best.
Your brain goes into red alert and the «fight or
flight»
response kicks in.
When we're in a state of stress, our sympathetic nervous system
kicks in and our «fight - or -
flight»
response is activated producing cortisol and adrenaline.
So imagine that you're walking through the forest, and you're feeling calm, and you're feeling at peace, and then you look down at what you think is a stick on the ground that starts to move, your autonomic nervous system is going to
kick you into the sympathetic, fight or
flight,
response.
When the body is under stress, the SNS
kicks in, leading to the «fight - or -
flight response,» increasing the heart rate, and diverting blood flow away from digestive organs to the heart and large muscles.
Serving as the complement to your body's «fight or
flight»
response, which is heightened during exercise, the parasympathetic nervous system
kicks in after you train and is key for recovery, controlling processes such as digestion, going to the bathroom, and sexual arousal.
At times, this fight - or -
flight response is healthy and necessary — for instance, it helps you
kick butt on that work...
Encourage them to spot how their bodies change in
response to specific situations — for example, noticing if they always feel sick in a certain class — and that this is their «fight or
flight»
response kicking in.
Often this fight or
flight response can result in hitting,
kicking, biting or any other method of re-gaining control of the situation.