What happens in your system when you are in fight/flight

⚠️ Heart rate increase

To get ready for effective defensive action

⚠️ Cognitive function decreases

It’s difficult to learn and to retain new information when in this state.

⚠️ Flat facial affect

We are in a state of threat,  so we are not welcoming social interactions and the muscles of the face naturally change to reflect this.

⚠️ Middle ear muscles function decreases,

This helps filter out sounds of safe humans, to focus instead on low and high frequency sounds (predator sounds are in this frequency). Tuning in to sounds of threat.

⚠️ Aggression and agitation comes online

Getting you ready to defend yourself.

⚠️ Wanting to get away from people and situations.

A typical flight/escape route response.

That’s why to function optimally we need to retrain and rewire our nervous systems that are “stuck” in fight/flight due to chronic stress or/and unresolved trauma.

These responses are automatic and we can’t think our way out of it. Your physiology will always trump your logic when fight/flight patterns are your “first port of call”.