See, most animals will not eat meat that they didn't kill, so if you're caught and play dead, a predator will pass by. This same instinct is sometimes stimulated by our autopilot nervous system to make us feel like a Volkswagen in two feet of mud-completely stuck and paralyzed about spinning our wheels trying to get out of the situation.
The solution: Focus by speaking to one person during group talks, then move to another. We do that too.