This is episode 1,832.

Welcome to the Daily Meditation podcast.

I'm Mary Meckley and congratulations for giving yourself permission to slow down and connect to the best part of who you are.

In today's episode, we continue with our series this week about managing distress.

Those times when you are experiencing such a rush of adrenaline that your body goes into flight

or fight response. This is otherwise known as leaning out, which is the flight response that I shared with you in yesterday's episode.

So if you're just joining us, you might want to go back and listen to yesterday's episode.

In today's episode, you will discover how your body reacts to fight. This is the

leaning in response to adrenaline rushing through your body. When you are experiencing this leaning in fight response, you want to feel safe.

You need to know you are safe.

And so you're willing to react dramatically in order to try to demand safety.

You may yell, curse.

You may throw things or hit things.

This is a response to feeling so unsafe and so harmed. When you are feeling so distressed or

triggered by something, adrenaline is coursing through you. You begin to breathe more shallowly higher up in your lungs and this cuts off a full

dose of oxygen to where you're not breathing diaphragmatically tapping into those blood vessels that carry oxygen to yourselves.

And with your shallow breathing, your heart begins to beat faster.

And if your heart goes over 100 beats per minute, it impacts how well you tap into your frontal lobe.

That's the part of your brain that is activated when you meditate.

It helps you to manage your reaction to stress.

It helps you to be able to think more clearly.

So when your heart goes over 100 beats per minute,

...