Excerpted from “My Pocket Meditations for Anxiety“ by Carley Centen. Copyright © 2020 by Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Used with permission of the publisher, Adams Media, an imprint of Simon & Schuster. All rights reserved. Welcome Fight or Flight Your body has evolved to react quickly to external threats—to process that the rustling in the bushes could be a lion—so that you can decide to flee, fight it, or freeze.
This is an incredibly rapid and automatic process of your central nervous system. You’ll breathe faster; your heart rate and blood pressure will increase to prepare your muscles for action; and your body will produce hormones to help you focus and think.
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