Back to Work: Calm Body, Calm Mind
The Anxious Achiever
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The Effects of Stress on the Nervous System
We're wired for fear, we're wired for survival. Our nervous system is collecting millions of bits of information outside of our awareness through our senses. And so before we even have a conscious awareness that our system has appraised something as threatening, we are already activating that response. It's preparing us to move towards with overcoming it through fight or to move away through flight if it feels in any way threatening to our safety or survival.
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