rest and digest
Body's recovery state
Rest and digest describes the state of the body when the parasympathetic nervous system is active—the opposite of fight or flight.
In this mode, heart rate slows, digestion increases, and the body recovers and restores itself.
The phrase captures what the body does when it feels safe: After the deadline passed, I finally shifted into rest and digest mode.
- parasympatheticNerve system promoting rest
- nervous systemSignal transmission network
- vagus nerveMajor parasympathetic cranial pathway
- calmFree from agitation
- relaxBecome less tense
deep breath · slow down · stomach · gut · gut feeling · nervous · vagus · sleep · peaceful · nourish · absorb · intestine · saliva · blood flow · enzyme · healing · recovery · fullness
- body statessleep state, wakefulness, exhaustion, hunger, satiety
- autonomic systemsympathetic, parasympathetic, vagus nerve, fight or flight, ganglia
- body reflexesreflex, reflexes, reflex actions, blinking, sneezing
- consciousness statesunconscious, conscious, awake, alert, sleep
- cholinergic systemacetylcholine, cholinergic, choline, cholinesterase, parasympathetic
rest and digestfight or flight
Threat-triggered physiological state
fight-or-flight response · sympathetic response · stress response · adrenaline response · hyperarousal
rest and digestfight or flight
Threat-triggered physiological state
combat readiness · panic mode · survival mode · hypervigilance · mobilization
rest, digest, rests, rested, resting, restful, restless, restfully, restlessness