Our own bodies provide input concerning movement, digestion, tension, pain etc., all in the form of message units sent to the brain. Our conscious minds deal with reasoning and logic, decisions, goal planning and conscious activity. It is our subconscious minds that wield the greatest influence. The subconscious receives and holds the information, neither accepting nor rejecting the content. It does not evaluate.
Evaluation is a function of the conscious mind.
Under threatening conditions, mankind still resorts to a primitive escape mechanism called the fight or flight syndrome , a means of dealing with fears, threats, attacks and other disturbances. We are ready for a physical confrontation. But sometimes there is nothing to fight. We can't physically fight the environment or a job, an accident, a bad decision and so on. Stress and Anxiety Unable to fight, the reaction turns to flight, which in present day life can prove just as impossible.