131: The Fastest Nervous System Reset For Fight or Flight
Jun 19, 2025
Explore how our nervous system reacts to perceived dangers, often keeping us trapped in stress. Learn about the fight or flight response and its link to anxiety rooted in past experiences and future fears. Personal anecdotes add depth, while a grounding mantra helps listeners stay present. Discover practical tools to reset your nervous system and combat overwhelming feelings, equipping you to break free from the cycle of worry.
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Nervous System's Fight or Flight
Fight or flight mode triggers when your brain perceives danger, whether emotional or physical.
This response feels like fear, worry, anxiety or stress in the moment.
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Most Fear Is Imagined or Past
About 99% of our fear and anxiety arise from past or imagined future events that don’t exist now.
The brain treats emotional and physical threats the same way, triggering fight or flight.
question_answer ANECDOTE
Anxiety Over Sending Email
Raelan shares worry over sending an imperfect email to a CEO and re-reading it anxiously.
This shows how small everyday events can trigger intense fight or flight responses.
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Our nervous system is wired to react to danger — real or imagined — with fight/flight/freeze/fawn responses that can keep us stuck in stress and anxiety. But what if most of those threats aren’t actually happening right now?
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