Emotions

What is the fight or flight response? To really understand the fight or flight response? It helps to think about the role of emotions in our lives. Many of us would prefer to focus on our logical thinking nature and ignore our sometimes trouble with some emotions. But emotions do have a purpose. Our most basic emotions like fear, anger, or disgust. They are actually vital messengers. They evolved as signals to help us meet our basic needs for self preservation and safety, and it would be really dangerous to be indecisive about a threat to our survival. So the brain runs on information from our senses through the most primitive, reactive parts of our brains. First, these areas of the brain control instinctive responses, and they don't do too much thinking this most primitive part of our brain. It communicates with the rest of our brain and our body to create signals we can't ignore easily, powerful emotions and symptoms. The fight or flight response is a physiological response triggered when we feel the strong emotions, such as fear. Fear is the normal emotion to feel in response to a dangerous threat. Fear also has a close relative, and we call this anxiety the fight or flight response evolved to enable us to react with appropriate actions, to run away or to fight, or sometimes even to freeze, to be less visible to a target. So it's important to think of this as a normal response, but one which could be treated too often by things which we perceive as a threat to us.