Making the Involuntary Voluntary

It is theorized that anxiety disorder is the result of flight-or-flight responses triggered without the presence of any danger. While in martial arts combats the flight-or-flight and freezing reflexes are considered a vulnerability that can be exploited by the opponent. Thus, a secret method have been discovered to control the involuntary flight-or-flight and freezing reflexes. The standing and moving meditation (Zhan Zhuang) is exactly the training fundamental exercise from internal martial arts used to control and deactivate these involuntary flight-or-flight and freezing reflexes and make them voluntarily. 

More specifically, training in internal martial arts has two objectives: 1) to eliminate all involuntary reflexes, hard-wired by evolution, through superior awareness, and to learn to induce these reflexes in the opponents. 

In essence, the internal martial arts cultivate awareness and control over reflexes and promote relaxation and integration at a fundamental level.

The standing meditation and the flight-or-flight and freezing responses (anxiety disorder) have deep commonalities in structure and function. They both activates the energies of the body. The difference is that the anxiety disorder activates the energies through sympathetic nervous stimulation and standing mediation, on the contrary, through parasympathetic nervous promotion. 

In simply word, standing meditation transforms you from a prey to a predator.