Our cognitive skills are delayed four or five seconds, when the amygdala is firing our fight or flight mechanism.
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Triggers can startle us before we know what to do or how to react. Hence, our reactions range from a terrified avoidance to a frozen state of numbness.
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What can we do to withstand and observe this adrenal stress reaction?
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It has to be simple, concrete, easily learned. We need to be able to perform this skill, under intense fear and anxious feelings.
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Daily practice on the The Breathing Track is the easiest way I know to accomplish this task.
