Morgan Hansen

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Did you know humans instinctively lift their shoulders to their ears when in danger? This is to protect the neck, the most vulnerable part of the body. For a while, humans removed themselves from the food chain, but the body never knew this. The body is blind to time. It continues its same old dance. Instead of lifting the shoulders to keep the jugular hidden from a wildcat’s bite, the shoulders would rise in heavy traffic, when a meeting ran late, before a blind date. Little annoyances or anxieties that the body mistook for peril.
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