Timeline for Drills for reducing your natural "flinch" reaction
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| Feb 7, 2012 at 21:50 | comment | added | Swift | Like @Ho-ShengHsiao said flinching is a fear reaction from stimulus, but it's the brain and nervous system that does the reaction. So Simon is partially correct. WebMD has a decent article on it: men.webmd.com/news/20040820/what-makes-you-flinch | |
| Feb 4, 2012 at 16:51 | comment | added | Ho-Sheng Hsiao | @SimonPeterChappell Flinches come from fear. Fear is fundamentally the instinct to avoid danger and we're biologically wired to avoid pain. Bad technique, lack of strength, and surprise all fall out from avoidance. | |
| Feb 4, 2012 at 15:56 | comment | added | Simon Peter Chappell | The Duke says that bravery is being afraid and saddling up anyway. I'm sticking with a flinch being an automatic reaction to physical stimulus. These reactions can, with dedicated effort, be trained out or trained in, so that tends to discount the fear stimulus. | |
| Feb 3, 2012 at 23:37 | comment | added | tacone | 1. Make a quick, nervous movement of the face or body as an instinctive reaction to surprise, fear or pain (she flinched at the acidity in his voice / he had faced death without flinching) | |
| Feb 3, 2012 at 23:26 | comment | added | Chuck Dee | @SimonPeterChappell - Though flinches can be an automatic behaviour of the nervous system (the lizard brain response), they can also be based on fear (the monkey brain response). | |
| Feb 3, 2012 at 23:08 | comment | added | Simon Peter Chappell | I just have to say that flinches are an automatic behaviour of the body's nervous system. They are absolutely not based on fear. | |
| Feb 3, 2012 at 16:03 | history | answered | tacone | CC BY-SA 3.0 |