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Learning to recognise the body’s
natural response to threat
▪ The problem is, our brain can find it hard to work out REAL threat.
▪ The brain can trick us into thinking there is REAL danger
when in fact, we are perfectly safe.
▪ We can practise thinking through real dangers and ones which may
make cortisol rise in our body but are not REAL danger.
▪ Look at the pictures below. Which are REAL danger?
When someone is stopping us If we were being chased by a When we get stuck or feel we
from doing what we want to do bear cannot do what we are being
asked to do
If we had to escape from a fire When we feel left out or that If cars crashed on a busy road.
other people do not
like us as much as
Other people.
