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Discovering the Brighter Side to Anxiety and Stress
We hear a lot about stress and anxiety disorders and how debilitating they can be. But anxiety and our body’s response to stress is actually a survival technique that has been perfected over millions of years of evolution. Its main function is to get us into a fight/flight mode in potentially dangerous situations – albeit the “dangerous situation may have changed somewhat in modern times! On perceiving “danger”, the hormone adrenalin gets pumped into our system, getting us ready for action. Our heart rate increases, pumping more blood into the muscles. We feel excited or agitated, with butterflies in the…
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