The biological ability to use a 'pause'—that moment of conscious stillness between a trigger and a response—is not a level playing field. While anyone can technically take a breath, the body's physiological readiness to engage that mechanism depends heavily on environmental stability.
Chronic stressors common in lower socioeconomic environments, such as housing instability or food insecurity, keep the sympathetic nervous system in a state of constant high alert. When you live in a persistent state of survival, your amygdala stays hypersensitive. This neurological priming makes the " ,"the physiological
