Our bodies like to exist in a state of balance. Even so, they are adapted to respond to situations as the demand requires and then return to normal. For this state of self-regulation to occur we have mechanisms that speed us up and others that slow us down. Our nervous system is organized in such a fashion. When the so-called sympathetic nervous system kicks in we are in ‘fight or flight' mode and when the parasympathetic nervous system dominates we are in a state of ‘rest and digest'.
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