Sentence examples for state of fight from inspiring English sources

Music points to stress as keeping us in a state of "fight or flight".

I think about it every day and I am locked into a state of fight or flight".

But in our hectic, daily lives, when our bodies are in a perpetual state of fight or flight, this calmer part of ourselves is harder to activate.

It needs to address the sick workplace culture where participants after 10 years of civil warfare now roam the precinct in a permanent state of fight or flight.

This is why I am anxious, why I take two pills in the morning and two at night now to bring me from a constant state of fight or flight back to something like a state of balance.

Many of our worst decisions occur after we've been triggered — meaning that something or someone pushes us into negative emotion and we react instinctively, fueled by our stress hormones, in a state of fight or flight.

Morally injured veterans won't be triggered by a car backfiring, or the smell of burned rubber, because they're not in a state of fight-or-flight in the way that PTSD sufferers are.

"When you are in a chronic state of fight-or-flight, you are never getting a break from the stress, and this is harmful to your body," Fish explains.

We have a lot of knowledge about what happens when we are in a constant state of fight-or-flight.

Many of us walk around in a low-grade state of fight-or-flight (the body's response to real or perceived danger) because we don't really know how to deal with the way trauma lodges in the body.

Nicotine in e-cigarettes is known to elevate adrenaline levels, putting smokers in a constant state of fight-or-flight, which should only happen if a person is in immediate danger.