Fight, Flight, or Freeze
Becoming a Natural Lawyer, Part 2/3

Fight and flight we pretty much understand. We're good at them. They activate our sympathetic nervous system and spend body resources. If we don't do something to restore them, we end up "out of gas or energy" in life pretty quick.

We don't understand freeze as well. Hint: think "play dead."

In his book, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, Dr. Peter Levine explains how animals in the wild shake off a freeze response and move on with their lives, while humans often don't. Humans may literally "freeze" in the state they occupied at the time of the event that caused their stress reaction ... at least until they can learn a different way to be.

By the way, this is usually unconscious. And, it can come from events so early in life that you didn't have the ability for mature reasoning at the time. In other words, it's possible that some of your "rules" for how life works aren't quite accurate.

[Bonus question: Where in life do you "play dead?"]

Here's the rub. Let's say something's off in your life. Big off. Like your job or relationship doesn't work.

You have three and only three options:

• Fix it (if you have the desire and the energy)
• Get out of the situation (if you don't have the desire or energy to fix it)
• or Suffer (which will ultimately lead to ill health).

I was talking about this law with a coaching client one day. It made sense in her situation. Shortly after, she told me she'd heard the same thing from a member of the clergy (remember, they're on our modern-day Shaman team). Only his language, like the language of the Shaman, was grounded in nature.

In the wild, our animal friends have three and only three options when dealing with a challenging environment:

• Adapt (to the circumstances at hand, in other words, solve the problem)
• Migrate (leave)
• or Perish (go figure).

Bottom line: When you've got challenging life circumstances, ignore them at your peril. Because if you continue, you've placed yourself in the big check- out lane of life. Not overnight, necessarily. But slowly, insidiously, they'll leach your energy. And that, in turn, compromises your immune system, compromises your physical body structure, and makes you accident- prone.

Not an opinion. Law. Adapt, Migrate, or Perish. It's just how things work.

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