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Human Responses to the Prospect of Change: Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn, or Flop?
Alice B. Clagett: In the past, I have put forth that solar events such as geostorms can cause the fight response (which I term ‘acting out’) or the flight response (generalized anxiety or panic attack, since the threat is not physical).
Image: “Little Peasants Surprised by a Wolf” [cropped, effected], by Francois Grenier of Saint-Martin,” 1833, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grenier_Saint_Martin_loup_MdlaC.jpg … public domain
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Later I read, and immediately saw the truth of, the notion that there is another possible response to a perceived threat … That is the freeze-and-dissociate response (which, for the sake of simplicity, I term the freeze response) …
Image: “Lonely Alcoholic in a Winter Jacket Sits on the Roof in Fear Covers His Face with His Hands” [cropped, adapted], by rebcenter-moscow, 14 March 2018, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Depression_-_a_lonely_alcoholic_in_fear_covers_his_face_with_his_hands.jpg … CC BY-SA 4.0 International
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Then I found there are two more possible responses to the prospect of change; these are the fawn response and the flop or faint response.
When I read about these bodily responses to ‘perceived threats’, I was immediately taken back to my youth, out in the countryside.
Image: “Children in the Forest” [cropped], by Ivan Kramskoi, 1887, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kramskoy_Children-in-the-forest_1887.jpg … public domain
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I remember that our family German Shepherd used to threaten to bite strangers who came to our door.
Image: “Military Dog Attack,” by Josh Plueger, 17 April 2007, by U.S. Air Force, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Military_dog_attack.JPG … public domain
Image: “Military Dog Attack,” by Josh Plueger, 17 April 2007, by U.S. Air Force, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Military_dog_attack.JPG … public domain
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That is the fight response.
Image: “Facial Expressions: Angry-Fight Response” [effected], self-portrait by Alice B. Clagett, 12 June 2023, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
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Then sometimes when our German Shepherd barked at a horse, the horse would run wildly away.
Image: “Wolves Attack” [cropped], by Jozef Chelmonski, 1883, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:J_Che%C5%82mo%C5%84ski_-_Napad_wilk%C3%B3w_(1883).jpg … public domain
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That is the flight response.
Image: “Facial Expressions: Scared-Flight Response” [effected], self-portrait by Alice B. Clagett, 12 June 2023, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
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I recall that once I saw our German Shepherd enthusiastically dig up a mouse nest, and uncover a little mouse inside the nest.
Image: “Borisz, My Four Months Old German Shepherd Dog!” [adapted], by bkaree1, 23 November 2019, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Borisz,_my_four_months_old_German_Shepherd_dog!_%2849115984991%29.jpg … CC BY 2.0 Generic
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Clearly the mouse was frozen with fear … It ‘shrank into itself’. With great concern, I picked it up. It seemed to me that the mouse was paralyzed, unseeing, unfeeling … completely unresponsive.
Image: “Tiny Mouse Frozen in Fear in the Himalayas” [cropped, adapted], by Madhur D’silva, 16 May 2004, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tiny_mouse_frozen_in_fear_in_the_Himalayas.jpg … public domain
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That is the ‘freeze response’.
Image: “Facial Expressions: Cornered-Freeze Response” [effected], self-portrait by Alice B. Clagett, 12 June 2023, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
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Sometimes a small animal …
Image: “A True David and Goliath Tale” [cropped], by USFWS Mountain-Prairie, 26 April 2012, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coyote_vs._Mouse_%287116010411%29.jpg … CC BY 2.0 Generic
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… or even a child … will act friendly towards its natural predator.
Image: “Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in the Forest” [cropped], by Carl Larsson, 1881, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carl_Larsson_-_Little_Red_Riding_Hood_1881.jpg … public domain
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That is known as the fawn response.
Image: “Facial Expressions: Flattering-Fawn Response” [effected], self-portrait by Alice B. Clagett, 12 June 2023, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
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Sometimes an animal such as this swift …
Image: “Young Swift Lying on Its Back” [cropped], by Klaus Roger, 4 November 2007, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ApusApusKlausRoggel02.jpg … CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported
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… or this opossum, …
Image: “I Found This Opossum Playing Dead on the Back Porch of My Apartment Building,” by Johruble, 21 December 2006, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Opossum2.jpg … public domain
Image: “I Found This Opossum Playing Dead on the Back Porch of My Apartment Building,” by Johruble, 21 December 2006, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Opossum2.jpg … public domain
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.. or this goat will faint when it is captured.
Image: “Fainting Goat Experiencing Myotonia (Fainting)” [cropped], by Redleg at English Wikipedia, 12 July 2006, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fainted.jpg … public domain
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That is known as the flop response.
Image: “Facial Expressions: Fainting-Flop Response” [effected], by Alice B. Clagett, 31 May 2023, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
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So then, these are the possible physical responses that animals and people may employ when faced with danger: To fight, to flee, to freeze, to act in a fawning manner, or else to flop (that is, to faint).
Chart: “Responses to the Prospect of Change,” by Alice B. Clagett, 5 June 2023, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
Chart: “Responses to the Prospect of Change,” by Alice B. Clagett, 5 June 2023, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, from “Awakening with Planet Earth,” https://awakeningwithplanetearth.com ..
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You may be wondering: How does this relate to Enlightenment during the Ascension process? To get to the answer, we need to take a close look at the way in which our body cells … tiny beings that they are … feel about Ascension.
The next section is entitled “The Angst Felt by Our Body Cells During the Ascension Process” → https://wp.me/p2Rkym-v1z ..
In love, light and joy,
Alice B. Clagett
I Am of the Stars
Image: “Human Cheek Cells Stained with Methylene Blue” [adapted], by Joseph Elsbernd, 15 April 2012, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Human_Cheek_Cells.jpg … CC BY-SA 2.0 Generic
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This is part of Chapter 13 of a blog series on Mastering the Mind and the Human Electromagnetic Field, and on the relationship of that field to the Universe.
Chapter 13 is the first of two miniseries on the topic of Enlightenment. The page you are viewing now is Chapter 13B. Enlightenment I: On Mastering the Subconscious and Conscious Minds – Introduction.
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Written and published on 16 April 2016; revised on 12 February 2019; on 18 June 2022 through 31 October 2022; and on 10 May 2023; revised on 11 August 2023.
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