Sentences with phrase «flight response when»

He still to this day has a fight or flight response when he is full of fear.

In fact, it may be his charm and endearing smile that triggers your flight response when you feel those juices of attraction flowing again, after you kept them in check for so long.

So during this fight - or - flight response when the stress chemicals are being released, our amygdala has, in a way, «hijacked» our neocortex.

Not exact matches

Adrenaline is the source of the «fight - or - flight» response, a survival mechanism that forces you to stand up and fight or run for the hills when faced with a threat.

«When you don't know where your monthly income is coming from, it often sets up a fight - or - flight response in your brain,» Slim says.

When stress hormones kick in — triggering our flight or fight response — people get nervous, tight, and fail to perform their best.

When flight attendant Steven Slater cursed out passengers on the tarmac at Kennedy International Airport in New York before grabbing a couple of beers and exiting the aircraft via the evacuation slide, jetBlue took a few days before deciding on an appropriate response.

The experiment, which Westen wrote about in his book «The Political Brain,» showed that, when people begin to feel their worldview is under attack, the parts of their brains that handle reason and logic go to sleep, while the parts of their brain responsible for our fight - or - flight response light up.

Among other things, the study identified 15 moments when the audience experienced the fight - or - flight response (as determined by a specific heart - rate pattern) and 4,716 seconds during which viewers were motionless, signaling peak filmgoer engagement.

When the normal fight - or - flight response to stress (with its elevated heart rate, blood pressure, and body tension) becomes a continuing pattern of living, the body pays a high price.

In the short term, this may have benefits, especially in a dangerous environment: When your threat - detection system — sometimes referred to as your fight - or - flight response — is on high alert, you are always prepared for trouble, and you can react to it quickly.

If you have been hurt badly, lied to or had significant physical and emotional damage from traditional medical care — being forced back into that environment will cause fear, that will hamper labour due to how women were made (any threat the woman feels causes labour to slow until she no longer experiences that «fight or flight response», and when she feels safe again, labour should resume)-- labour slows and then interventions «have» to be done... and the cycle repeats itself — reenforcing the belief that the hospital is not the place to birth.

They forgot about the oxytocin... My vaginal birth not having messed things up (and the pitocin having even increased my natural levels... shh don't tell anyone), I was able to chill out and send the occasional text message without the usual fight or flight response caused by texting while I get on the freeway (wait a minute, I thought fight or flight was the response caused in all the other drivers when they see you texting).

I mean, I do think that there's clear evidence that when kids grow up in really difficult circumstances, they arrive in kindergarten less able to focus and concentrate, you know, with these amped - up fight or flight responses.

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.

It is scientifically plausible that our entire hypothalamic - pituatary - adrenal (HPA) axis, which mediates long - term stress responses and immune function, as well as short - term fight - or - flight reaction, is permanently mis - set by the continuing high stress hormone levels that ensue when newborn babies are routinely separated from their mothers.

When laboring moms are stressed out, their body takes on a flight or fight response, and basically holds the baby in.

When we are having big emotions, we are physically coming from our reptilian brain stem, where the fight, flight or freeze response comes from.

When babies (and adults as well) are overtired, the stress hormone «cortisol» is secreted and cortisol keeps us awake (it's the same hormone that would be released into your body if you were in a situation where you were trying to save your own life - the «flight or fight response»).

When in a stressful situation, these lower centers of the baby's / toddlers brain go into a primal survival response commonly known as fight / flight / freeze.

From a neurological perspective, when we experience a healthy sense of control, our prefrontal cortex (the executive functioning part of our brain) regulates the amygdala (a part of the brain's threat detection system that initiates the fight or flight response).

When you breathe in, you activate the sympathetic nervous system, which is all about the fight, flight, or freeze response.

The flight - or - flight response is related to release of catecholamine hormones, which are being produced in situations when animals and previously humans require fight or flee, involving intense muscular engagement.

The right breathing — proper belly breaths — is a quick way to calm stress, and reduces all that cortisol that's pouring in to our body (when you're in the «fight or flight» stress response mode).

When cortisol gets too high, it puts you into a «fight - or - flight» response, which stimulates your sympathetic nervous system and adrenal glands.

When we receive a shock, our physiology tends to goes into fight (looking for someone to blame) or flight (trying to calm us with clichés like «everything happens for a reason,» as if a simple aphorism could explain it all away) response.

This is the part of the autonomic nervous system responsible for the «fight - or - flight» response when stressed — causing heart rate and breathing to go up, blood vessels to narrow and muscles to tense up.

When we get stressed out, even if it's about something manageable like a tense conversation with a friend, the body reacts as though there were «real» physical danger — often called the «fight or flight» response.

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.

The stress response activates the flight - or - flight reaction, which over time can lead to impaired detoxification of toxins, hormones, and amines (e.g. histamine and thyramine that naturally occur in some aged and preserved foods like cheese, wine, and fish), all of which, when built - up or imbalanced in the body, can trigger a migraine.

So we need tryptophan, which makes serotonin and melatonin, we need GABA, which makes GABA, and that calms our nervous system down, we need tyrosine, which makes dopamine, this is a feel - good hormone that helps us seek rewards and feel motivated, and energized, also tyrosine gets made into thyroid hormones, again, which helps us feel energized and keeps our energy levels stable and our metabolism revved up, and the catecholamines, norephinephrine and epinephrine, which we need for that fight or flight response and that we're going to be burning through a lot more quickly when we're in that fight or flight response.

However, even when caloric increases are considered, cortisol still tends to promote the storage of fat, specifically to the abdominal area where it can quickly be utilized for the fight or flight response.

Our fight or flight response (when our sympathetic nervous system gets all ramped up over a real or perceived threat) can be helpful when facing a bear in the forest, but isn't helpful when looking at a bear claw in the bakery.

When our bodies are under stress it triggers the «fight or flight» response, which leads to the release of epinephrine and cortisol.

When the body is in fight - or - flight mode, breathing is fast and shallow, but slow and controlled breathwork helps circumvent that stress response and provides a direct line to the PNS.

When your brain senses this kind of situation, it sets off a chain of chemical reactions that protect your body from harm; this is called the stress response, or more commonly «fight or flight».

Unless it's missing what it needs for survival, the body is rarely anxious without the input of the mind but stressful thoughts activate the amygdala, the brain's danger sensor, and switch on the fight - or - flight response even when there's no physical danger present.

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.

They are secreted from the adrenal gland, above the kidney, in response to stresses such as fright, anxiety, hunger or cold, as well as excitement, when they activate the sympathetic nervous system for fight or flight.

Essentially, caffeine triggers the same stress response as when the body goes into fight or flight mode, and for that reason alone, it's advisable to avoid it.

When we are in the flight - or - flight response mode, our bodies feel like they are under attack.

When you experience stress, your body goes into «fight or flight response» mode, diverting its attention from healing and digestion; and goes into emergency mode, pumping your body full of adrenaline to prepare it to survive what your body perceives to be a life threatening event.

Like all restorative yoga, it dials down the sympathetic nervous system's fight - or - flight response (the hyperalert state we go into when stressed) and turns up the parasympathetic nervous system, sometimes called the «rest and digest» response, which supports digestion, relaxes muscles, lowers the heart rate, and promotes a good night's sleep.

B vitamins maintains the adrenal glands and get used up during the «fight or flight» response and when converting food into energy for the body.

The fight or flight, or stress response is something we are all familiar with subjectively when we get a fright, and is clearly a helpful survival mechanism which has been passed down to us from the days when our ancestors lived in far more dangerous environments.

As a Reiki practitioner, Rachel understands that very limited healing occurs when the body is in a state of constant stress or fight - or - flight response.

This «fight or flight» physical reaction is helpful when it comes to surviving an emergency — but when the stress is chronic and unrelenting, the response itself becomes a threat to your health.

When used to fuel the fight - or - flight stress response, cortisol is part of the body's arsenal of valuable survival tools.

The fight or flight response is just a small part of what is happening inside our body when stress hits us.

When we are stressed, our sympathetic nervous system is triggered and may cause our bodies to remain in a state of «fight - or - flight» response.