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flight-or-fight response

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flight-or-fight response


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What happens with trauma is the reptilian brain keeps sending signals you're in a life and death situation," he said, referring to the basic part of the brain that deals with flight-or-fight responses.
Byline: KAREN HAMBRIDGE THEY are an extension of our age-old flight-or-fight response and most of us suffer from one to some extent or another.
Another major finding is that meditation produces all the body responses opposite to the flight-or-fight response characteristic of stress.
 
 
 
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