Transcription of Relaxation and Relaxation Exercises
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This resource guide was produced at the Trauma Center, with the funding of the Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance (MOVA), under afederal Anti-Terrorism Supplemental Grant (ATSG), to aid Victims of and Responders to the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks. It is not intended tosupplant professional and Relaxation ExercisesWhen we are under stress the body goes into survival mode. It produces stress hormones, which gear usup to respond to perceived danger. This has come to be known as the fight or flight response. In thatstate, the heart rate increases, respiration becomes rapid and shallow, there is a rise in blood pressure,and the brain itself moves into a primitive survival mode, suppressing normal thought functions(evaluation, planning, deciding, encoding memory normally, etc.)
This resource guide was produced at the Trauma Center, with the funding of the Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance (MOVA), under a federal Anti-Terrorism Supplemental Grant (ATSG), to aid Victims of and Responders to the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks.
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