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Why It’s Crucial for You to Get Out of Survival Mode
The coronavirus pandemic has posed challenges to our health, our money, our relationships, our children and our jobs.
The combined total of all these stresses has caused many of us to go into survival mode.
How Can You Tell if You are Operating in Survival Mode?
When you are in survival mode you are either in:
- Fight
- Flight
- Or freeze
When you are in fight mode, you may feel like you have to fight just to survive.
Inside yourself you feel a pugilistic attitude towards everyone and everything around you — your boss, the government, political parties you don’t agree with and even life itself.
When you are in flight mode, you may find yourself in endless escapes.
This could take the form of running away from life in your mind through various addictive patterns or simply feeling like you want to put your head under a pillow to get away from it all.
When you are in freeze mode, you may find yourself unable to function.
Life feels so overwhelming you are not sure which way to turn to move forward so you simply give up.
