What’s up, everybody? Patrick Lerouge here from Evolve Restorative Therapy. You can find me at livepainfreeprocess.com. I help people understand that they can eliminate pain rapidly by understanding the connectivity of how the body works. And it’s never just physical. You have to always understand what’s happening on the emotional as well as the mental. It’s all about everything in a balanced sustainable way. What we’re going to be talking about today is – I’ve got an email talking about what is the mind-body connection? Mind-body connection. I love getting emails that make me giggle and this is one of them that made me giggle due to the fact that there’s, not just one answer– one way of saying, “This is the mind-body connection.” What I can say is it is not mind over matter where you can push your body in all sorts of different ways and push it and push it, and pop and push it. The body is very, very resilient – you’re not fighting China. So it will do the things that you need to be done based off of fight or flight and is trying to be self-preserving itself. It will make it through pretty much anything that you throw it at or will die trying.
What I want you guys to realize is that’s a servant, slave mentality. That’s not going to be sustainable. Your body is always going to be pushed and you’re going to do– it’s not going to be great because you’re dragging along, you’re telling it what it needs to do. The mind-body connection is different. That’s you listening to your body and understanding that your brain talks one way, your body talks in a different way. And they don’t really speak well to each other in the way of understanding, you understanding.
So I want you to think about it this way. The brain talks to your body through hormones. It’s going to release different hormones. Let’s just take the fight or flight mechanism which is adrenaline, cortisol – all these different ones but adrenaline is the key what I want you just to understand. So it’s going to give you a lot of adrenaline to come out. And the body is going to take that adrenaline and put it through whatever it needs to do, it’s going to speed up certain things, decrease different things. But it’s going to give out a communication of sensations. That’s where we come in as the third party and we mess that up. So they communicate through sensation – sensation the body, hormones the brain. But they don’t really actually connect. They just react to one and other. They don’t really communicate in a way of bouncing back and forth. We are third party to translate everything for everything to work together.
That’s the fun part. That’s where your higher self comes in. That’s how true speeding up of healing comes in. Because when you get adrenaline dropped in, which is a reaction, your body is going to react to the adrenaline by speeding up things, shrinking your pupils, getting you to see everything, being more alert more. All these different things, it’s going to give you sensations of heart running faster, more sweat, all the things working faster, those are the sensations your body is going to give you. You as a person need to put it together, and make that connection and say, alright, my body is speeding something up, that means my fight or flight mechanism is going on. Do I need to do it? That’s one, which is recognize what’s happening, that’s the mind-body connection, the role that all three of you play together and I say it like that because I need you to split yourself apart and realize that you’re watching all this happening, it’s just you’re not taking an active role in it. You’re not saying, “Alright, this is what’s going on, I can change it by noticing it’s not what I think it is.”
So we walk into a party and we notice that everyone’s staring at us, and we’re just like, “Oh my god, what’s going on, what’s going on, what’s going on, what did I do wrong, what did I do wrong, what’s going on? Something– is my zipper down?” All these different things. Your brain is going to say, “Fight or flight, fight or flight.” Your body’s going to go and you’re going to shoot up on your temperature and the way that you talk, your nervous reactions, all these different things. The sensation that actually might happen if you’re a sweater is pit stains, hands might get real sweaty. You might just start getting wet and that’s a bad thing if you’re just walking into a party. Because then, if you’re wearing like a gray shirt, it’s not very appealing, right? So you have to recognize, “Oh, wait. This is picking up. I need to do something because my body is saying something. My brain did something.” That’s the mind-body connection.
Let’s spin it now in the pain world. In the pain world, something happened. You fell down once upon a time and you fell down the stairs. So what happens is you finally rehab yourself. You do all the different things you’re doing, and you now have to walk up three flights of stairs every single day to get to your house. Your brain is going to notice those stairs and see there’s a threat, so you’re going to be very, very cautious. You’re body’s going to do something in reaction to that cautious nature. Which means it’s going to move really, really slow, and use all its big muscles really, really hard. So you’re going to walk really, really slow, and it’s going to be heavy. Your body’s going to use a lot more energy than it needs to. That, causing your body to fall apart faster.
What’s the connection? That’s how your body reacts to your brain, and your brain reacts to your body. The connection that I want you to start playing an active role in is: I don’t need to do that. I’ve rehabbed myself. Your body should have been rehabbed better than it was before, and that’s just the nature of how your body works. Things are moving, and going, and going, and going. When something does break, it’s going to redesign itself not to do it again. It’s just sometimes we just don’t piece it all together fast enough, and get things moving. And so it’s easier to break. That’s the way the body is designed, but that’s what naturally happens.
So we have to now break that cycle and say, “All right. It’s fine. And look at me; I’m shaking all the energy out. It’s fine. It’s fine. I can walk up these stairs.” And then just watch what happens and then do it with confidence. That’s how you break it using your mind-body connection. And it’s the same thing when you’re dealing with pain and say, you hurt your ankle and you’re doing a calf stretch. You’re saying, “Oh my god. Oh my god. It’s going to hurt. It’s going to hurt.” But if you’re saying, “All right. Let’s see how far I can pull it before it starts giving me a sensation.” Your body starts talking to you, “All right. Fine.” And now the brain says, “All right. There’s nothing going on. There is no reason for me to protect.” Central nervous system starts cooling down. Now, your body say, “All right. I don’t have to protect. I have no other sensations going on, no other hormones coming in. Let’s heal rapidly.” And that’s how you’re going to speed healing. That’s what you have to start focusing on – where are you currently.
That’s what the mind-body connection is all about. There’s not one true answer to like– it’s not like exactly what I said in the beginning. It’s not mind over matter. But the role that you play connecting the brain and the body together and making them work really, really easy. That’s the mind-body connection. And hopefully, you guys got it because this one is a vague humongous thing that you could put your own spin it in many different ways. But if you’re putting your own spin in, that means you’re in the game. The more you step out and like, “I don’t understand it. I’m not thinking about it. I’m not doing any of these steps out of it,” the more you’re not in the game. The more your body’s always going to just play the reaction game. And it’s the hard way to do so. So you’re always going to be at the whim of what happens in your environment. Let’s change that. Let’s start doing things out of the design by you playing an active role. That’s what I want you guys to do.
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What we’re going to do today is talk about a different spin, a different look, at bicep tendonitis. We’re going to do this in two parts. The first part I’m going to talk about a different way of looking at it, a different way to thinking outside the box I’d say, for bicep tendonitis as well as the next one, is how to take care of it through the world of trigger point work. So we’ll do this in two steps.
What I want you to understand about bicep tendonitis is its just information of overused, overtaxed, or a malfunctioning bicep muscle which has two heads to it. Let’s take a look at that
All right. The bicep muscle itself has two heads, the long head and the short head. What you have to understand about this bicep muscle is it flexes at the elbow, it helps the elbow flex – which means close – as well as it helps work with shoulder range of motion in the forward view. So it bends, it holds things up in front of you, et cetera, et cetera. What I noticed is I see a lot of easier cases of bicep tendonitis when the head of the shoulder gets inflamed because it’s overused and it no longer fits in the Lamina groove. What I want you to do is touch the front part of your shoulder and if you rub back and forth you’re going to feel a bump. Sometimes you might feel a pop or something move, that’s this bicep tendon at the top of the shoulder popping in and out of the groove. Sometimes, also people lift up their arms and they hear a pop or a click, that’s this muscle popping in or out of this groove. That’s the easier out of the two bicep heads to work with. The harder of the two is the short head because short head actually runs underneath the bone and near the shoulder and hits a part of the scapula that pokes out, hits the undertow. What happens is when you work with your arms and you lift your arms up, you actually might – most likely will – roll your shoulder in and it starts to grind inside the joint. Now that makes this whole muscle inflamed and then you have trouble because now your habit loop is actually grinding consistently to make this muscle become inflamed. Every time you pick up your arm it’s actually grinding. We’re working with a deeper habit.
What I want you guys to recognize is the front part of your shoulder is where the bicep runs. What I’m saying about the short head being the hardest out of the two to understand is, when you actually let your arms drop, if you notice that your elbow, the point of your elbow, is pointing in towards your body, that rotates the whole shoulder in and now every time you pick up your arm, you’re grinding that short head inside the joint capsule and it’s just rubbing consistently. Those are the two reasons why your body reacts in the way that it does for you. In short we always figure out why your body’s reacting and what role we play in causing that reaction.
A different view everyone talks about you just overuse the muscles, it’s inflamed, you get cortisone shots, et cetera, et cetera. What I want you to notice is the role you might be playing is, as a different vantage point is, if your body’s not stable it’s going to use a lot of muscle tissue to do something. I call this concept, killing an ant with a sledge hammer with all your might. It’s just doing way too much work and you don’t even have to do it. You can just kill the ant just like that with no muscle tissue whatsoever.
What happens is I notice a lot of people that have this issue, either flaring up or present and they’re not even worrying about, they’re the people that do a lot of things and have the mentality that things need to be hard, or they don’t have a structured core itself so they do a lot of things out in front of them with a long reach, a long grasp. When I went to massage therapy school, I had to learn how to keep my core underneath me. Every move I made, came from the core, came from my belly. So I always learned to keep things tight and close, and close-knit, so every time I would move, my whole body moved. You have to realize that. If you’re out and about, and you’re doing things in this outside range, you’re going to also generate a lot of tension in your biceps. Because now your bicep has to work really, really hard.
I want you to start recognizing this in a two-fold way. One, if you go pick up a coffee mug, touch base with your bicep and see how hard you’re working. It doesn’t have to work hard to pick up a cup and then you just have to ratchet down how much energy you use to grab that coffee mug. But this is the bigger one, the bigger one. What happens if your mindset is, “I have to work hard?” What happens if you consistently see yourself doing those things? Then, you have to realize is what’s not stable in your outside world that’s forcing you to work hard, which then brings you into your mental aspect that you’re not planning, you’re not seeing things clear-eyed enough so you’re not getting yourself underneath yourself to work easier. Plan things out. You always have to muscle through things. Things always have to be hard because that’s the way it’s always been, but it doesn’t have to be. You don’t have to always consistently be grabbing them and really forcibly doing things, it’s just a matter of you learning how to plan things out. See things the way you don’t do so you can do things with the least amount of effort. That’s the name of the game. That’s what I want you to focus on.
Next week what we’re going to talk about actually how to clean it up in the world of trigger point because that’s a different aspect, and you’re going to see that it’s never right where it is. Right where you’re getting your pain. Okay folks, until next week. Bye.
Today is a relaxed conversation, but it’s a big one. But it’s also something that made me thinking in and touched me in the heart realm? We are going to be asking the question, “What is it like to always be thinking outside the box consistently?”
When I got this email, this note and I was like, “Damn what is it like thinking in my head?” I’ve have realized for 14 years I was put through a lot different experiences that showed me that, every time I thought I knew how to fix something, the body showed me otherwise. There was never, ever “the right way” to do something. By trial and error I realized that you can never know something well enough and there is not one way to do something. Especially when it comes to the body. The body’s always going to be a variable in the change. So it was humbling for me to learn all that and now that I think about – think about the experience I’ve had, I’m thankful for that humbling experience. Thinking about It, touched me and realized that, “Shoot. You can’t think only one way works”.
So I started really looking at how my brain works and realize that it’s kinda like seeing a whole bunch of different stairways to the same place. They all work. So if you can go to different modalities and different thought process, they all work. It’s just a matter of realizing that if you’re going to think outside the box, number one is: What would work for the situation that’s at hand? So in my world is, I’m looking at a client body, which way works for them and makes that sustainable for their precise issue? I want you to really start focusing on the concept of there is no one right answer, there are many different right answers and that changes the way that you look at things. You have to look to it through a child’s eye of saying, “Oh, that’s new, that’s new.” Because every time I did that, I latched onto this is the one way, I was eventually burned in some way not because I did something wrong, it’s because the body would evolve past the easy rudimentary way that I would work with that area. So if I was working with a case just from a physical standpoint and they were getting– we’re going to go through a lot of aches and pains now, like a shoulder pain, if I dealt with that specifically on a physical level and I never deal with the emotional or mental, I’d see myself that it’s not working as efficiently, something else is going wrong, that’s when I started to realize that it didn’t work, it didn’t work as well. It’s because I’m not going after the right thing that the body is showing me at that precise moment. It’s very, very fun to be in this world because then it’s always keeping you on your toes, you are always looking at it from a brand new eye. That’s what thinking outside the box is in the world of restorative therapy and health care and working with the human body – it’s nothing is ever right. So I was seeing some people coming to me and I was like, “All right why don’t you go out and try acupuncture? Why don’t you go and try this? Why don’t you go and try that?” They all work and that’s why I love referring out in that world because sometimes when I’m doing clears up something but they don’t even realize that the driver of the whole thing is coming from a different world, an energetic world, an emotional world, a mental world that they might need to get a different person saying something different to have them change something itself internally.
And now that’s what thinking outside the box is, guys. It’s being able to understand number one: Vision or right answer and there’s no wrong answer. There are just pros and cons to everything, and also there are many ways to solve an issue. So when you look at your problem you start asking yourself different questions, not like, “Why are you doing this to me, body?” Because your body is trying to tell you something, but what else is happening? What is the different way that I can deal with this? Those are the questions that you want to start asking – open-ended questions like “What is the different way I can do this? “Who else can help me with this?” Because you’re not broken. You’re not going to ask, “Who else can fix me? Who else can help me understand what you’re trying to say to me?” Because your body is just trying to communicate.
So I want you guys to really focus on that aspect of the situation. There’s not just one way of dealing with it – especially not just in the physical – you have to deal with the mental and the emotional – as well as, what else is out there? What else is out there in the world that can help you navigate and get you to understand what’s happening inside your body? Your body is trying to tell you something. What is it? Who else knows a different language that your body is talking in? Until next time, folks, if this helped, please share. I’d love to get you to understand that it’s never just the physical; we have to consistently think outside the box. We’re gonna be doing this next month a lot in the aspect of: We’re seeing a pain, it could be this or it could be that. It’s never just physical, so start looking at many different ways.
Folks, what we want to talk about today is understanding who you are. So who are you? Like, truly? What are you like? What do you do? Do you know who you are? Because that’s going to be key to sustainability. What I mean by sustainability is you want to do what you want to do, when you want to do it, for as long as you want to do it.
Folks, you want to stretch the amount of time you can do whatever it is you like to do. Whether it is triathlons, whether it is swimming, biking, running, yoga, a CrossFit trainer- anything. You want to stretch that out as long as humanly possible. But in order to do that, you have to understand it’s all about who you are. I had a person come in to me recently- working with her t forced me to do this video. This person was consistently just worn down, worn down, just getting hurt, hurt, hurt, hurt. I was like, “Dude, you’re burned out.” She was like, “I don’t know, I take my time for myself. All these different things.” She was telling me the whole checklist of who she is and what she does. I was like, “No, this is not making sense. This is not making sense.”
So, I started realizing this – she’s the personality type that goes balls to the wall all the time consistently, then takes small little break and goes balls to the wall. She’s the extrovert, that’s the type A personality. I’m not a big fan of the whole A personality, personality types and all that different jazz, but she’s the A personality type. But she was masking her thought process with the thought that she can take these small little breaks and it added up to balls to the wall. No, she needs to clean it out even more. What I had to get her to realize – and it wasn’t just me telling her once or twice – I had to prove it to her, I had to show her. Every time she got hurt, she went balls to the wall, rest for a little bit, balls to the wall, rest a little bit, balls to the wall, poof, something went wrong. I had to show her the sequence of events that she was doing to herself. And it’s all because she didn’t realize internally, that’s who she is. She’s going to give it her all. Now the cure to that is getting you to match the healing aspect to who you are and I had to help her realize that. In her case, I had to do more physical stuff – I had to get her to do more balls to the wall physical stuff. Better stretching, better forming, better trigger palm work, better movement draining – all these different things to get her to slow down the progression.
Now let’s switch it to the opposite side, someone that’s an introvert. Someone that’s a worrier, that’s an inward thought, “I beat up on myself.” They can be like, “Oh, I really don’t really do much in all these different things, and why am I getting hurt, why am I lethargic, why am I always– I don’t have the energy to perform?” It’s because internally, they’re the swan. They’re graceful outside, but underneath they’re going crazy. I had to get her to now use her inward side to recognize what was happening, and realize this is who you are, you have to now start spitting it out. You have to start journaling; you have to start getting things out of you. Doing all these different things, get your body to calm down and stay in the healing state. Now, we’re not even talking about what’s happening on the outward level of your biking, your swimming, your running – you’re doing all the chores that you love to do. We’re realizing that you’re burning out. Your falling apart is because you’re not taking time for yourself, you’re not touching base with who you are, and the way that you are, the other times of your life, that you’re not doing your sport, not doing your activity. That’s still happening.
In the outside world you have to realize things are happening. This is who you are. And once you start taking that apart and seeing it’s more than just introvert, extrovert, worry, class A personality – it’s more than that. Start getting data on yourself, start doing tests and see how you tick. What’s happening? What drives you? What makes you fall apart faster? I tell everybody this – it’s very hard to get me upset but the one person that could do it? My wife. She knows instantly what to do to drive me insane and I fall apart. So I have to constantly, consistently touch base with myself especially when we’re in that heated debate mode. Because she can take me down in a second. And we’re not talking about anger; we’re just talking about energetically. That’s something that is me. What is you? What are you like? What drives you? What makes this tick for you? And then once you start finding out those things, then find a natural combatant to it.
So with my wife, I have to consistently do things to make her happy, to fill that up with me, as well as understand that she has her point of view; I might have my point of view and I don’t have to fight with her, because I lose. I can win the argument, let’s say. But it took too much energy out of me. I’ll hurt something later. It’s not worth it. So folks, figure out who you are. Extrovert, introvert, all these different things start getting details on yourself. Then, start realizing to make all your life self-sustainable, realize you are this person doing these activities. So if you’re a balls to the wall person, you have to take that balls to the wall and apply it to your self-care as well. You have to put 100% there, 100% here. If you’re an introvert, if you’re a worrier, if you’re a person that does that, you have to start writing things down. Finding someone to talk to that you can actually not just complain to in essence – because that will just drive you more worry – but actually, get some result driven ideas from is an excellent idea.
Those are the things that are now going to keep you moving, keep you pepped up, rather than moving into that downward spiral without you even knowing.
Folks, it’s a tough issue to get a handle on, but I’m sure you got it. If you know anybody that needs to hear more words like this, please tell them to hit me up because this is a hard one just to spit out and just talk about. You need to understand the different personality types, the different learning styles that people have, the different way the body reacts to different things. You have to have somebody that knows that. If you need any help, please just e-mail me. I’m here for you, folks.
Folks, what we’re going to be talking about is what is self-care and how do you change your attitude, you vantage point, towards that. I’ve been asking a couple of clients, a couple of people here and there “What do you think self-care is about? What is your self-care?” I started hearing the same thing; I was hearing a variety of different things answers but all the answers seemed to focus on the tools of self-care. My personal clients, the people that know me very well thought I was testing them, and so when I asked, “So what do you think self-care is?” Their typical answer was something like, “Trigger point stretching, foam rolling.” And I was like, “No, come on. What do you think self-care is?” And that’s what they thought it was.
Some people that are personal trainers think it’s the lighter workouts. For the long runners, they were talking about the light runs, you know, the pool workouts; the things that they do that are not weight bearing.
I want to challenge you a little bit. I want you guys to really think about what do all of them have in common? When you’re truly doing self-care, it’s an inward sight action. So anything that you do, you have to learn how to look inside and communicate with yourself. It’s all about learning how to communicate. So when I ask people about self-care, “What do you think about self-care,” the answer should be, “It’s the time that I spend with myself, that I communicate with myself, I listen to myself, and I give my body the chance to actually say what is on its mind.” That’s self-care.
There’s something that was beautiful that a client said to me and I just loved it is, she was doing my program and she said, “You know what, I’ve realized this is like a different type of meditation. When you look inside your body and you communicate with your body – and that’s what the whole program is designed to do, is to get you to look into yourself – you start to do this meditative thing, and the concept of the meditation is inward sight.” It was easy for her to say but I never really thought about it that way – which my program doubles as a meditation, and it’s completely right. She just saw it from a completely different vantage point, and I loved it. The fact that she was doing her foam rolling and because she was so quiet and because she was looking within, things started changing rapidly. Because she was looking within, seeing what was happening, things started to change.
I started hearing that a lot when it’s like, all right, you’re doing your trigger point work, you’re looking, and then afterwards, you’re moving in around. You are quiet. You are not rumbling inside your head. That’s self-care. So let’s start focusing on, yeah, it’s very important to do all the things, but that is not the end and that’s what’s going to do everything. What’s going to do everything – to help you to heal fast is, getting you to focus and communicate with your body to heal. Point-blank. That’s it. That’s what self-care is about. I don’t care what tool you use, whether it be sitting meditation, whether it be foam rolling, trigger point stretching, easy movement training, quiet Tai Chi; all those things together boil back down to the basics.
Self-care needs to be main objective, me looking within and talking with myself, and getting my body to talk back. That’s it, communication. And once that happens, I guarantee you everything will shift, guarantee you everything will shift and you really will supercharge your healing. Do self-care. I swear to you once you change that vantage point and do self-caring than like let me do my foam rolling– no, it’s let me do inward sight. So now you can do your self-care on a train, on a plane, on an automobile. No matter where you are, you can do self-care if you’d start learning how to look within, and to just practice on changing that gauge, changing that vantage point. That is my challenge to you. Let’s get you to supercharge your self-care because you are doing it not to foam-roll, but to talk with your body. Imagine that.
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Today we’re going to be talking about the important of stretching, but not only the importance of stretching but proper breathing while stretch – it’s very important to breath correctly while you stretch. We all know stretching is great. We all know while stretching you need to breathe, but we have to breathe in through the nose, out through the mouth.
What I want you guys to focus on is, when you’re in your stretch what happens? We all know muscle tissue intertwines itself. When the muscle contracts it closes like a bunch of fingers in a fist- it closes together to make itself smaller and then it opens up. Now when it opens up, that’s when you’re in your stretch depending on how flexible you are and how pliable the muscle tissue is, that’s how far you’re going to stretch. That’s what equals flexibility – pliability of muscle tissue and the ability to open at long lengths. So what I want you guys to really focus on is, when you stretch you open it up as far as you can– the majority people go until they can’t go anymore. What I want you to realize– now this takes the focus, this takes time to understand what you’re looking at. The more detail you get, the better your body’s going to be, right? When you focus on when you open up that muscle fiber, what happens is, it starts to– especially if you use a band – shake and it’s going to be on a micro level so it’s going to shake very, very little. That’s when the body gets confused and it locks up. So I always tell people don’t use elastic bands when they’re stretching, because with that micro fiber that happens, it just confuses things and the body doesn’t do anything. When the body is confused, the only thing it truly does is lock up.
What we want to do is get to a nice area, right? Now try this: Take a nice big deep diaphragmatic breath -so into your belly not into your chest. In to your belly and watch whatever area you’re stretching, it actually stretches just a smidgen more. And if you hold that breath for three seconds and it let out, now you are doing the natural rhythm of how the body works. It won’t lock up. You want to now stretch that out. I want to get you to realize that as you start to open a muscle, you pull this rubber band out and you hold it and you take a breath, you’re going to realize your body’s naturally going to open up just a smidgen more. We’re talking about a hair or two more, but that hair or two make such a humongous difference. So as you are in your stretch, and you take a nice easy breath and you hold it for a second, you’ll feel it. Once you see and feel it, that’s when it becomes real. You see it, you feel it, and it becomes real.
So now you’re seeing your body consistently want to open up – brings more blood flow, more blood flow becomes more healing. Now you’re starting to get somewhere, right? Stretching is good, but if you make that more efficient, more focused, now you’re supercharging your health care. Your self-care is just going to be like, boom! Because now you’re feeling everything. You’re seeing everything and you’re being present. That’s when your body starts saying, “Oh, you’re listening to me. Ah, I see. Let’s give you what you want.” That’s all self-care is, is you, talking with your body and that’s it.
What’s up, everybody? Patrick Lerouge here from Evolve Restorative Therapy. You can find me at livepainfreeprocess.com. I help people understand that they can eliminate pain rapidly by understanding the connectivity of how the body works. And it’s never just physical. You have to always understand what’s happening on the emotional as well as the mental. It’s all about everything in a balanced sustainable way. What we’re going to be talking about today is – I’ve got an email talking about what is the mind-body connection? Mind-body connection. I love getting emails that make me giggle and this is one of them that made me giggle due to the fact that there’s, not just one answer– one way of saying, “This is the mind-body connection.” What I can say is it is not mind over matter where you can push your body in all sorts of different ways and push it and push it, and pop and push it. The body is very, very resilient – you’re not fighting China. So it will do the things that you need to be done based off of fight or flight and is trying to be self-preserving itself. It will make it through pretty much anything that you throw it at or will die trying.
