OVERVIEW OF THE FIGHT RESPONSE
When stuck in a chronic fight response people can often be viewed as either explosive, resentful, irritable, narcissistic, or bullying, with a dose of self-entitlement and self-preservation. They can be controlling, demeaning, combative, manipulative, demanding, defensive, dismissive or criticizing of others, quick to anger, and hot-tempered.
Breaking free from any chronic survival response requires:
- Learning the language of your unique nervous system: sensation, emotion, feeling, impulse.
- Understanding how your nervous system is reenacting these protective patterns and responses in your present day.
- Somatic completion: allowing the nervous system physiology to do now, what felt too overwhelming to do back then. This turning point happens when you explore Core Wounds work. For example: advocating or setting a boundary, walking away, expressing or emoting, etc.
- Building nervous system capacity/resilience to tolerate discomfort (anger, fear, sadness, anxiety, shame, etc). This is done through routine experiential practice.
- Integrating a nervous system-centered lifestyle across your external world: relationships, health & wellbeing, career, finances, etc.
"We may not be responsible for the world that created our nervous system, but we can take responsibility for the nervous system which creates our world."
-Dr. Gabor Maté
LET'S HEALSomatic Practice for Fight
"ANIMAL SOUNDS"
Allow yourself to listen to recorded sounds of a wild and powerful animal (like a lion or bear). After one minute, track any shifts from your body. Note: you can find these sounds online or via any streaming music service.
Here's a BONUS, just for you! Enjoy behind-the-scenes access to this 40-minute Nervous System Guided Practice on "somatic boundary setting and mapping." This exclusive recording is from our weekly Nervous System Gym call in the Body-First Healing Program.
