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When equanimity practice doesn't change nervous system reactivity

I practice equanimity but my nervous system still goes into fight or flight whenever someone criticizes me even slightly.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Mental training alone cannot regulate autonomic responses without addressing underlying survival programming.

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