Sentences with phrase «of fight or flight»

It's up to us to decide our personally appropriate strategy of fight or flight.

When you think of fight or flight, and the amygdala getting triggered, this is the pattern that comes up.

[00:03:53] Well so there's a couple of things to kind of unpack in there so you are exactly right that we know that children who have been exposed to repeated complex trauma we do see changes in their ongoing brain development and brain chemistry and I am no neuroscientist however we know that for example the simple way to think about it is that those are kids who may have changes as you said in their stress response their reactivity so they may be kids who you know sort of fight or flight in sort of a simplistic way is changed so that they may react in an overexaggerated way or they may also have sort of an inappropriately low response to danger.

You've heard of fight or flight mode?

The reason for this extra care, McNulty explains, is that when we feel attacked, we go into a mode of fight or flight, the parts of our brains that handle logic and reason go to sleep, and our ability to respond to criticism rationally goes out the window.

This constant state of fight or flight makes it very difficult for them to feel safe, which is what results in reactive behaviors, distrust of authority figures, and difficulty forming lasting, trust - based relationships.

The game's overall atmosphere, environment design and brutal foes instill a feeling of fight or flight perfectly, urging the player to do whatever it takes to survive.

This is also part of the fight or flight response.

This is caused by sympathetic nervous stimulation, part of the fight or flight response.

The choice of fight or flight varies depending on the situation.

This is linked to the survival trait of fight or flight.

Put simply, it's about getting students» brains out of the fight or flight mentality, past the anxiety barrier, and into a state where they can start to think and engage.

Troubling: Yann Demange's bleak Northern Ireland tale of fight or flight is buoyed by its quasi-documentary approach

, but he is quite magnetic as the shellshocked deserter Stormtrooper fighting against years of conditioning and locked into the flight side of the fight or flight mentality.

John Boyega hasn't done too much since his breakout performance in Attack the Block, but he is quite magnetic as the shellshocked deserter Stormtrooper fighting against years of conditioning and locked into the flight side of the fight or flight mentality.

For me, eliminating coffee was a godsend because the amount of caffeine was pumping into my body daily, coupled with chronic high stress levels and a variety of other destructive habits, left my body in a perpetual state of fight or flight.

This tool really engages the parasympathetic nervous system, pulls me out of fight or flight and allows me the space to act how I want to instead of my frenzied default.

The vagina does this to protect the incredibly precious goods inside and this is a direct reflection of the fight or flight response.

Dance also allows us to get out of fight or flight and activates our parasympathetic nervous system, which is where digestion thrives.

But in our hectic, daily lives, when our bodies are in a perpetual state of fight or flight, this calmer part of ourselves is harder to activate.

They've looked at that and people who are trained in heart rate variability before they go into combat are less likely to get PTSD because they can get out of fight or flight so it's funny that you predicted that based on your knowledge from ER.

Does your job require that you live in a state of fight or flight?

Readying the heart, lungs and blood vessels by providing more oxygen - filled blood is part of the fight or flight response.

Does your job require that you live in a constant state of fight or flight?

This i part of the fight or flight response.

And then you just shift yourself out of that Fight or Flight, and if you can control your nervous system a little bit better with your mind, that's gonna help you because everybody's gonna get exposed to similar forms of stress issue, but if you have built up yourself, whether that's with the supplements that we talked about, or whether that's with a mindfulness practice and you have the ability to disengage the trigger so to speak at this loaded gun — that you're gonna disengage — you know, not gonna pull the trigger of that Fight or Flight, you're gonna be a lot more powerful that someone else who's gonna break under a stressful time.

Your body treats all stress via the sympathetic nervous system by going into the primitive response of fight or flight.

Stress is a silent killer — living in a constant state of fight or flight, as if everything is an emergency, will lead to heart disease, IBS, chronic fatigue and more.

Rushing through your meal or eating on the run will put your body in a state of fight or flight, which compromises or shuts down your digestive processes, cutting off the assimilation of nutrients into your system.

That moves out of fight or flight, so she can think again.

i have been very affected by the control of the amygdala, so it is extra important that i call my fears and adrenalin release in to question... others may be less aware of how the brain works and leads them because they have not experienced the damaging effects of fight or flight quite so dibilitatingly... as i understand it, it drives us all to some degree.

He added: «It's a kind of fight or flight situation... you've just got to take it to God at that point and hope that you make it and hope that you're safe.

But when people live in a constant state of fight or flight that's triggered by all the things they're trying to squeeze into a week, this can lead to really poor decisions and life - threatening health problems.

Not exact matches

The fight - or - flight mechanism sidesteps rational thinking in favor of a faster response.

Most people think of the fight - flight reflex as a binary action we are either relaxed or we are running like a spotted assed ape.

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.

The fight - or - flight mechanism sidesteps rational thinking in favor of a faster response to ensure survival.

By reducing the constant stream of inputs, the chronic fight or flight response will be tempered.

Drinking excessive amounts of caffeine triggers the release of adrenaline, which is the primary source of a fight - or - flight response.

During a high stakes conversation, you are often operating out of the part of your brain called the amygdala — the fight or flight center — which is not conducive to a calm exchange or constructive outcome.

Once you reach this point, you've essentially overcome your fear of change, which shows up to cloak our «fight or flight» mechanism.

However, this is largely an evolutionary holdover: Now that we are on top of the food chain and rarely need to assume fight or flight reflexes, the reality is that cognitive biases cause significantly more harm than good.

It triggers their «fight or flight» response as a way of coping with dangerous situations.

A: «I've spent the past 12 years of my life fight or flight.

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.

Watch too much of that stuff and it puts your body into «fight or flight», creating stress even where none existed before.

Entrepreneurs spend the majority of their working lives with the high - intensity, flight - or - fight systems in their brain activated, Perel says.

[2:17] What is your idea of an extraordinary life [2:43] You can be rich and happy, or rich and angry [3:08] It's about defining what life on your terms looks like [3:18] Nothing worse than an angry rich man or woman [3:24] We have a 2 billion - year old brain: focused on fight or flight, and survival [4:14] We don't appreciate enough.

The amygdala also links directly to areas of the brain that prime our fight or flight response: breathing rate, heart rate, the release of corticosterone (a stress hormone), and the release of norepinephrine for alertness & arousal.

We are all born with instincts, which include the inate knowledge to use our bodies... inate fear responses (fight flight or reason) etc.... all incredible knowledge... yet ALL of that knowledge must come from ONE single cell... The information MUST be stroed electrochemically... but how?