Fast Lane Soup

How Your Body Makes Two Choices
People have the ability to choose to respond to stresses in one of two basic ways. They can choose either the syntoxic response (the ignoring response), or the catatoxic response (the fight-or-flight response).
A man could well choose the catatoxic response, for example, when his wife is being […]

One of the things that makes me keep my composure despite constant exposure to irritating types of people is my punch bag. For a couple of 1 1/2 hours sessions per week, I circle the bag (as if stalking a dangerous enemy) jab into it and release a flurry of kicks and punches. At the […]