#62: Understanding Your Nervous System with Sarah Baldwin
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The Power of Tonic Immobility
There are three states of dysregulation in our nervous system. The sympathetic is like, think of it like a cheetah sprinting off. dorsal is the opposite, bear in hibernation. So when these forces come together, it creates something called tonic immobility. When we're in freeze, people think, why didn't I do something? Why didn't I fight back? And then you're like, find yourself organizing your junk drawer for the 12th time because you just can't seem to step towards the thing.
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