Recalibrating Internal States
Understanding trauma, anxiety, and PTSD involves recognizing how internal experiences relate to external circumstances. Calibrating our internal state can be achieved through specific breathing protocols that either calm or stimulate autonomic arousal, offering a more nuanced approach than traditional drug treatments. This exploration highlights the importance of how we arrive at our emotional states and the potential for self-regulation through breath.In this clip
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Erasing Fears & Traumas Based on the Modern Neuroscience of Fear | Huberman Lab Podcast #49
Related Questions
But how does inducing stress, like through hyperventilation and recounting the traumatic experience that is already arousing, erase fear and trauma? I got really confused here.
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?