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- ABOUT THE
FLIGHT / FIGHT / FREEZE RESPONSE
- All
of us have an inborn emergency reaction to
danger. This is commonly known
- as
the flight-fight-freeze reaction, which
automatically 'switches on' in a 'danger
- situation'
e.g., if a truck is running you
down,
or
you are otherwise feel under
- threat.
- However,
any situation perceived
as
endangering your
safety
can
activate this
- flight-fight-freeze
reaction
in your body and these
'threats'
can be physical
- or
psychological.
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A
'psychological' threat is for example:
- being
criticised
- arguing
with the boss
- a new
job
- a
strange situation where you feel something is expected of
you
- Life
provides us with many such threats
and
- this
makes
- relaxation
training
- essential
for our comfort.
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Relaxation
training enables you to cope more effectively
with the stresses of
life. Relaxation
has been proven to improve your health and
wellbeing. To
learn how to relax is not unlike learning a new
language and so it requires practice in order to
gain the full benefits from
it.
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- To relax calls
forth that part of your nervous system called the
parasympathetic nervous system which has the opposite
effects on your body from the other part of the autonomic
nervous system, the sympathetic nervous system that is
activated in the 'flight or fight or freeze
senarios'.
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