Autonomic Armor: Understand and Shift Your Nervous System
First Responder’s Nervous System: From “Code Red” Activation to the Struggle to Deactivate Imagine you are just about to leave a long shift when dispatch says we have a 10-32 (person with a gun) in progress, your nervous system was already on but now it’s activated and you are wired with adrenaline and ready to take action, your heart racing, your hand sweating, (code red) and you are now in active pursuit, your mind is racing with thoughts about calling home and making sure civilians aren’t...
