Articles, tagged with "flight response", page 1

Have you noticed negative or difficult people around you are affecting your otherwise cheerful disposition (and how unfair is that)? Someone who knows nothing is making your life miserable. Why do Negative Nellie’s feel they need to unload their pent up v...

There is one way proven by a celebrated cardiologist to ease stress is called the relaxation response. According to the researcher's studies, the means taps an innate mechanism that can be adopted to counteract our fight-or-flight response to the stress....

Stress is a primitive response that people have to fear or danger. Fear triggers the "fight or flight" response, releasing chemicals into our body like cortisol and adrenaline. This was very important in the past, when some of our greatest causes of stres...

Half of the world's children live under highly stressful conditions. This is true for academically and emotionally pressured kids at our most elite schools, and more true for kids from lower income families, who by age six have twice the level of stres...