Welcome to #Checkin for Sunday, April 14, 2024!

Hiya Gang! Last week I learned something I wished I learned when young! While I've known forever that we humans are designed to have a fight/flight response when our survival is threatened, I was clueless to the physiological process that occurs to enable this to happen, and any associated related repercussions. (The following is a lay person's description.) It's life changing to know now what happens when we are under stress and the stress hormone cortisol as well as adrenaline are released into our blood stream. The more stress we experience, the more cortisol and adrenaline are released. One of the outcomes of this is that more blood is redirected to our muscles and the part of our brain which enables enhanced capabilities to fight/flee. The blood is redirected FROM other parts of the body such as the part of our brain that provides rational thinking - the part required for sound decision-making... Hence, when our brains are flooded with cortisol and adrenaline, our rational, decision-making ability becomes increasingly limited. That's right, while we are more able to respond to threat, we become less able to listen objectively AND to make thoughtful, calm judgments! Ever notice when in the heat of an argument, the other party cannot seem to hear what you're saying? So, how many of us, at the height of being equipped to fight/flee realize what's happening and calmly (depending on the situation of course) successfully arrange a time-out to continue very intense exchanges to a later time to allow for the cortison+ level to ebb and our full rational minds to be restored? 😶🤣 (Cortisol imbalances also cause many other outcomes but I'm focussed on this one for now.)

Your turn? What's something you've learned recently? 😄💕

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