Fight or Flight Response

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Your Automatic Life-Saving Instinct

When we feel threatened, our mind and body have an instinctive response, known as the Fight or Flight Response that kicks in to handle the situation. While you may never have heard of this with this specific title, I am quite sure that you have experienced this many times throughout your life and know what I am referring to.

Just try to remember the last time that you felt extremely over-stressed...what did you do about it? The Fight or Flight Response kicked in to help you to manage your stress.

This is a very good thing, for a short period of time. You do not ever want to be in this state permanently or for any length of time as it is not healthy for you. A prolonged time in this state could bring on illness so you need to be aware of this and manage the situations in your life carefully.

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Fight or Flight Response

The actual physical response taking place in your mind and body...explained.

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What is Your Usual Response to Stress?

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COUNTRYLUTHIER says:

I have become fairly adept at maintaining calm in the midst of stress. Maybe it was the navy training and all the drills an imagined dangers we trained to fight.

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What Could Activate The Fight or Flight Response

Here are some Triggers

Running Bull, Gotta Get Out of The Way QuicklyThe Fight or Flight Response is activated when our mind senses a threat. Here are some common triggers that could activate this response in your body;

1. Imminent danger - such as this bull heading towards you running
2. Perceived Danger

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Theory Challenges 'Fight or Flight' Response to Stress
Moreover, positive social contact before a stressful event can reduce and even change the stress response. The research finding refutes the nearly 100-year-old belief that stress triggers a ?fight or flight? response in humans and animals.
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These are your stress glands, responsible for producing hormones ? particularly cortisol ? you need to induce a ?fight or flight? response and handle stress. However, when you have endured too much stress, your adrenal glands may burn out, ...
Teach children how to act near dogs, monitor interactions
Dogs have a fight or flight response, so when the flight response is removed and they get scared, all they can do is fight. Dogs fight with their teeth and that's how bites happen. We must supervise children and dogs when they are together.

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  • mismatch Feb 27, 2012 @ 2:05 am | delete
    Unfortunately we mostly go through stress without being aware of techniques to manage them. Thanks for your set of lenses -- they give useful information on stress management.
  • athena2011 Feb 27, 2012 @ 7:28 am | delete
    Yes Mismatch, this is exactly why I decided to make this my focus in life so that I could write about it and help people learn how to manage the stress in their life, in order to help them protect their health and be able to live a happier life.

    Glad that you appreciate my efforts on this.
  • athena2011 Feb 23, 2012 @ 9:12 am | delete
    CrazyIM, you're welcome and thanks for your feedback.
  • CrazyIM Feb 23, 2012 @ 12:51 am | delete
    I wrote a book about stress management and touched upon this topic. However, I haven't got chance to publish it yet. Anyway, great info. Thanks for sharing.
  • Hypersapien Feb 11, 2012 @ 7:02 pm | delete
    Great lens on this subject. You hear about this insitnctive reaction in the animal kingodm but no such much with people, so kudos!
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