Facing Fear Head-On
Andrew shares a harrowing experience of facing trauma while diving, emphasizing the importance of confronting fear to overcome it. He explains how understanding the relationship between anxiety and stress can help manage emotional responses. By utilizing physical practices like yoga and movement, he highlights the body's role in stabilizing the mind and fostering resilience against fear.In this clip
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Andrew talks about a process to erase fear and traumas, stating that you first 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?
If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, would changing the physiological response immediately after being triggered also help diminish the physiological response over time and break the conditioning? For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider and used breathwork to calm the body immediately after being triggered, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?
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?