Fear-Based Reactions vs. Power-Based Responses

It is well established that Fight or Flight are fundamental survival modes, driven from the Amygdala, the reptilian brain as part of the brain stem. Freeze is well represented in nature, the freezing of the rabbit or the deer in headlights, confused over what to do, or hoping stillness will result in the threat passing. It can also be the denial that anything is happening. Finally, the fourth reaction is Fabricate, the use of masks or camouflage to attempt to throw off the threat. This is a higher order reaction to fear, represented by the chameleon, and by so many disingenuous people on this planet.
Fight, Flight, Freeze and Fabricate are all fear-based, and reactions because they are initiated when confronted with some form of threat. The threat may be physical danger, emotion upset, mental confusion or a host of other possibilities. They can be essential to survival (dodging a speeding car!) but overused they can set a negative basis for life that is focused on dealing with fears and only short-term outcomes.
When working from personal power, experiencing life and consciously engaging from a place of innate power, has a very different outcome. For each of the fear-based reactions there is a power-based response that takes a longer-term, strategic view of a situation. The responses are Assert (Fight), Attend (Flight), Freeze (Act), and Authenticate (Fabricate). While survival reactions are essential, conscious development and application of the power-based responses has greater capacity to create a meaningful life, focused on thriving rather than surviving.