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Understanding Trauma's Roots
Trauma can lead to a profound confusion about responsibility, often causing individuals to internalize feelings of unworthiness. Accessing the emotional and physical states associated with trauma is crucial for healing, but it must be done under professional guidance. Engaging in intense physical experiences, like ice baths or rigorous exercise, may help individuals manage autonomic arousal and begin to process their trauma effectively.In this clip
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Andrew talks about a process to erase fear and traumas, and he says that first you need to extinguish the fear or trauma by retelling the narrative. The whole point of that is to diminish the physiological response, right? If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, then if the person works to change their physiological response immediately after being triggered, would that over time also diminish the physiological response and therefore break the conditioning? Am I right? For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider, but every time the person sees the spider or gets activated through some trigger, and immediately after uses breathwork to calm the body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?
Did I miss something in my understanding of Andrew's process to erase fear and traumas in the clip Healing Through Sensation, where he talks about extinguishing the fear or trauma by retelling the narrative to diminish the physiological response? If a person works to change their physiological response immediately after being triggered, would that over time also diminish the physiological response and therefore break the conditioning? For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider and used breathwork to calm the body every time they see the spider or get activated through some trigger, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear?
In the episode Lessons from Stoicism and The Military | Nancy Sherman | The Knowledge Project 126 and the clip Emotions and Reflection, Andrew talks about a process to erase fear and traumas, stating that first you need to extinguish the fear or trauma by retelling the narrative. The whole point of that is to diminish the physiological response, right? If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, then if a person works to change their physiological response immediately after being triggered, would that over time also diminish the physiological response and therefore break the conditioning? For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider, but every time they see the spider or get activated through some trigger, and immediately after use breathwork to calm the body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?