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Flight Response & the Nervous System
Why Your Body Feels Restless, Urgent, or Unable to Stop Moving
The flight response is one of the nervous system’s primary survival strategies. When the brain perceives threat—real, remembered, or anticipated—it organizes the body for escape. This doesn’t always look dramatic. More often, it shows up as restlessness, constant motion, pacing, shallow breathing, racing thoughts, or a feeling that you “can’t slow down,” even when you want to.
This guided somatic practice explores the flight response not as a problem to eliminate, but as a physiological state to understand and reorganize. Instead of forcing stillness or relaxation, this session works with mobilization—allowing movement energy to complete, organize, and eventually settle.

The Neurobiology of Flight
Sympathetic Activation Without Resolution
The flight response is driven primarily by the sympathetic branch of the autonomic nervous system. When activated, it increases heart rate, respiratory rate, muscle tone (especially in the legs and shoulders), and forward momentum. The body prepares to move away from danger.
In modern life, this response is often triggered without a clear physical endpoint. The nervous system mobilizes, but the movement never completes. The result is chronic activation: tension without discharge, motion without resolution. Over time, this can contribute to anxiety, hypervigilance, insomnia, digestive issues, and a persistent sense of urgency in the body.
This routine is designed to support completion rather than suppression—helping the nervous system register that movement can happen safely, with structure, and with an endpoint.

Why Somatic Movement Is Essential for Flight States
Flight energy is inherently rhythmic and directional. Asking a body in flight to “just relax” often backfires, because stillness can feel unsafe to a system organized for escape.Somatic movement provides:
-Proprioceptive input, helping the brain track where the body is in space
-Bilateral and rhythmic feedback, which supports nervous system organization
-Containment, so mobilization doesn’t spiral into chaos

By engaging movement intentionally, the nervous system receives updated sensory information: movement is happening, and it is not dangerous. This allows sympathetic activation to soften without being shut down abruptly.

From Urgency to Organized Mobilization
Regulation does not mean eliminating the flight response. It means restoring flexibility—being able to move when movement is needed, and to settle when it’s not.
In this practice, mobilization is met with rhythm, repetition, and integration pauses. These pauses are not passive; they are moments where the nervous system updates itself, noticing that movement had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This sequencing is critical for restoring autonomic balance. Over time, this helps reduce compulsive motion, internal pressure, and the feeling of being “stuck in go-mode.”

Who This Practice Is For
-This session may be especially supportive if you experience:
-Chronic restlessness or pacing
-Anxiety that feels driven by the body, not the mind
-Difficulty slowing down or resting
-A constant sense of urgency or forward push
-Stress responses rooted in movement rather than collapse

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As a certified trauma-centered somatic practitioner, I help you regulate your nervous system. My journey included transforming personal challenges into wisdom. I´ve evolved through my own trauma, trials and errors, which now empower me to offer guidance and support to others navigating their own transformations.

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Disclaimer: The content provided on this channel is for educational and entertainment purposes only. Teresa Trieb is not responsible for any liabilities, injuries, or damages that may occur from following the information or advice in these videos. By voluntarily participating in these somatic exercises, you agree to do so at your own risk and accept full responsibility for any potential damage.
You may consult a healthcare professional before beginning somatic exercises. These exercises are intended as a general guide; always pay attention to your body's signals and discontinue if you feel unwell. If you experience sensations such as tingling, ear ringing, dizziness, light-headedness or similar symptoms, please remain calm, as they are completely normal.