Sentences with phrase «own fight or flight»

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.

When the body is in fight or flight mode, the blood pressure goes up, stress hormones spike and the blood thickens.

The fight or flight response also slows the digestive system, lowers immune defenses and causes growth and sex hormones to drop.

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

The fight or flight response comes from the body's sympathetic nervous system.

When you're about to go on stage, sometimes your fight or flight reaction kicks in.

«We can't think when we're in fight or flight mode.

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.

Do you go into fight or flight mode?

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

Too much threat and our amygdalas trigger a «fight or flight» response.

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

Dr. Mark Kovacs says a 30 - to 60 - second cold shower stimulates adrenaline (your body's fight or flight response), getting your nerves ready for the day.

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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.

@child: in that situation it's called adrenaline: wonder drug from your adrenal gland that permits amazing feats during times of «fight or flight» mothers have been known to flip cars when their children were trapped under them due to the surge of body strength adrenaline gives the human body.

it aids ALL animals in fight or flight response.

This causes physiological effects related to fight or flight like body inflammation, an increase in the hormones epinephrine and cortisol and the genetic changes that these hormones cause like susceptibility to disease.

These situations send your body into a «fight or flight» mode, but adrenaline isn't meant to be what gets you through your workday on a regular basis.

Slivers of good news include the recent release of kidnapped Christians, an attempt in Morocco to protect Christians in Muslim countries, what $ 1 million revealed on Christian coping strategies beyond fight or flight, how Christian «resistance videos» of forgiveness are going viral, and Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill breaking the century - old ice over the issue.

Even in the midst of anger and fear, of hatred and violence, when a billion years worth of instinct gears us up for either fight or flight, something calls for us to break the vicious cycle and instead to reach out to the other with caring and understanding.

«Fight or flight» — the way most respond to conflict — doesn't solve conflict, resulting instead in emotional outbursts or a «head in the sand, conflict doesn't exist because I don't see it» perspective (which usually only creates more conflict).

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.

In hyperarousal, the «fight or flight» defence mechanism we all have is over-sensitised and manifests itself in a general tendency to be always on the look out for threat or danger.

When faced with persecution, Christians worldwide employ more strategies than just fight or flight.

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.

Though an animal may have a variety of possibilities as to the means it might use to achieve its goal, classically fight or flight, an animal does not set its own goals.

Their fight or flight mechanisms, and one might add their «fright» reactions, which we now know are built into their very DNA, do indeed seem to imply that a certain degree and type of suffering seems also to be built in.

So what you're saying is that the mistake of running in a fight or flight hormonal situation makes shooting an unarmed civilian okay?

This does of course all rely on a certain Mr Wenger to orchestrate, I feel Wenger's fight or flight response has switched to fight to go out on a high.

>> INVITE IT, DO N'T FIGHT IT «'' Nervous symptom (jitters, muscle tension, nausea are caused by a rush a adrenaline (a hormone pumped out of our adrenal glands) which is present to help support our «fight or flight» response.

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.

During a conflict, kids sometimes go into «fight or flight» mode: they get upset, there's a rush of adrenaline and they don't know how to release that energy.

I'm sure when I went back to med school and would pump while gulping down my lunch in between surgeries or at 3 am before going in to work, my milk was just straight poison from my «fight or flight» hormones.

I wonder if that produced fight or flight hormones and destroyed my relationship with my babies?

It signals the «fight or flight response» in the brain.

Many of us will recognize the physical symptoms of «fight or flight», or the human body in the sympathetic state.

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 wonder if fight or flight bad juju impacts the pumped breast milk, such that the baby will just start texting willy nilly if it drinks the contaminated milk at a later time.

It's really important to try to reduce sources of bad stress for your child, because bad stress, which activates the brain's defense systems, fight or flight, actually can shut down those thinking centers.

And faced with the fight or flight response, T chooses to fight.

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.

This models emotional regulation and helps your child feel safer, so she begins to shift out of «fight or flight» herself.»

Like sweating, nausea is a natural reaction in response to your body's fight or flight system.

If your child is acting up, she's usually in «fight or flight.»

Keep yourself from moving into «fight or flight» by taking a few deep breaths and reminding yourself that there's no emergency.

If you get upset, it moves your child into fight or flight, which makes you look like the enemy — and makes her less likely to cooperate.