Michael ZellerNeurorewired LLC · Neurorewiring Expert

Are You Stuck in Fight or Flight Mode?

10 Jul 2024 · 1 min

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In this excerpt from Sophie Amelia Wasik’s YouTube video, the speaker explains how regular meditation can re‑calibrate the nervous system, boost neuroplasticity, and move mental processing from the amygdala—responsible for fight, flight, or freeze responses—to the prefrontal cortex, which supports rational decision‑making. She emphasizes that operating from a stress‑driven state impairs clear thinking, warning business owners that making strategic choices while stuck in fight‑or‑flight mode can lead to poor outcomes. The core message is that cultivating a meditative practice helps restore a calm, connected state, enabling more thoughtful and effective business decisions.

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But meditations are really, really powerful over time to help your nervous system go back into this blissful connected state. All right, and it's found to increase your neuroplasticity over time as well. So it also shifts you out of that amygdala back into your prefrontal cortex, which is your rational mind. When you're in— your amygdala is leading the way, you're in your fight or flight or freeze mode, which means you are not rationally deciding, and you can make decisions for a long time as a business owner from this fight, flight, or freeze mode. So if you're making decisions from a fight, flight, or freeze mode, not a great state to be in.