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Learning to re ognise the body’s
natural response to threat
▪ Our brain can find it hard to work out REAL threat.
▪ The brain can trick us into thinking there is REAL danger when we are
perfectly safe.
▪ We can practise working out the real dangers from those that make us
feel prickly but are not real danger. The more we do that, the better we
will become at taking control of our ‘danger bear brain’.
▪ This takes time – the brain has often developed strong thought patterns.
When sounds are too If we were chased by a bear When we feel we cannot do
loud for us. what we are being asked to do
If we had to escape from a fire When we feel left out If cars crashed on a busy road.
or that people do not
like us.
