A couple posts ago, I wrote about a neat and very effective new tactic I just learned forhealing stress.
Oddly, I learned about this technique, called “completing the cycle,” in a book called “Come As You Are: the Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life” by Dr. Emily Nagoski.
As I’ve kept reading, I’ve kept learning more surprising new things. In fact, I just finished a section that describes how our ancient reptilian limbic brains prefer to deal with stress.
I have always believed that when animals (human or non-human) feel threatened, our ancient limbic brain gives us two options: fight or flight.
But according to lots of science and Dr. Nagoski’s book, we actually get three options: fight, flight, or FREEZE.
This makes a lot of sense….so much sense that I can’t believe I didn’t learn about this until age 45.
It also makes sense because I am now realizing that freezing is one of my threat-detection specialities.
[For more of this story, written by Shannon Curtis, go to http://blogs.psychcentral.com/...-on-fight-or-flight/]
Comments (0)