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We are a nation besieged by stress, whether it’s related to career, family, finances, romance, current events, or health problems. Once you’re ramped up, though, it’s overly difficult for your physiology to recover. You’re driving a car that has no trouble reaching a high speed but is incapable of slowing down. This is true for most of us. Think about it: When you narrowly avoid an accident on the way to work or school or get into a heated confrontation with a family member, do you feel your heart rate speed up in the moment, then swiftly return to normal as you proceed with your day? Or does it take you a while to stop ruminating or replaying the incident and release that stress? For most people, the latter scenario is more common and is indicative of sympathetic dominance—an overactive sympathetic nervous system that keeps you stuck in a state of fight-or-flight longer than necessary.
Heart Breath Mind
Leah Lagos
Now I was hearing that this impression and all the official statements that led to it were false. It was not only the president who could make the decision and issue the orders, and not even (as most people probably assumed, if they thought about it) the secretary of defense or the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon, but commanders in the field thousands of miles from Washington who thought their forces might be about to be destroyed. Similar letters, the control officer told me, had gone out to all the unified commanders with nuclear forces and to the commander of the Strategic Air Command in Omaha.
The Doomsday Machine
Daniel Ellsberg
When you’re great, you trust your instincts. When you’re unstoppable, your instincts trust you.
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