The discourses and practices of neoliberalism, including government policies for education and training, public debates regarding standards and changed funding regimes, have been at work on and in schools in capitalist societies since at least the 1980s.
The fight-or-flight response (also called the acute stress response ) was first described by Walter Bradford Cannon. His theory states that animals react to threats with a general discharge of the sympathetic nervous system, priming the animal for fighting or fleeing.
Benson argued that controlling breathing in this way triggers the parasympathetic nervous system to come online and counter our sympathetic nervous systemâs fight or flight response to daily stresses. In effect, the relaxation response is the anti-fight or flight response.