Page 6 - Stress,anxiety

- anything that causes us to worry recreates the

SNS response within your body.

Imagine for a moment a deer in the woods.

How often does it feel threatened? How much time

is the deer's SNS engaged? The honest answer is

very little of the time – maybe 3 - 5 %.

Occasionally the deer may run across a predator

and then it simply runs to safety. The rest of the

time it spends grazing, walking and resting.

Now lets take another animal as example – man.

How much time does the average human being

(you for example) spend in an SNS state? A few

questions will help you assess this:

1. How much time do you spend worrying

about _________?

2. How often do you run scenarios in your head

of bad things that happened or may

potentially happen?

3. How often do you feel stressed?

4. How often do you have a difficult time

sleeping because your mind is racing?

Answering these questions honestly, you may