Empowering Stress Management
Empowering kids to manage stress involves teaching personalized relaxation techniques, such as breathing exercises and positive thinking. Mindfulness and simple yoga poses can help break the cycle of negative thoughts that lead to panic attacks. The focus is not on eliminating stress entirely, but on managing it effectively to reduce discomfort.In this clip
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Dr. Victor Carrión: How to Heal From Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Related Questions
If the goal is to diminish the physiological response to stress, would changing the physiological response immediately after being triggered also diminish the physiological response over time and break the conditioning? For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider, and every time they see the spider or get triggered, they use breathwork to calm their body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something in my understanding of the episodes Only 12 Minutes to Remove Stress & Pain! Professor David Spiegel Unveils The Science Of Hypnosis and the episode Dr. David Spiegel: Using Hypnosis to Enhance Health & Performance | Huberman Lab Podcast #60?
In the episode Stanford Psychiatrist Reveals How Cognitive Therapy Can Cure Your Depression and Anxiety and the clip Perception and Reality, Andrew talks about a process to erase fear and traumas by retelling the narrative. He mentions that the whole point of that process is to diminish the physiological response. 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? Am I right? 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 uses breathwork to calm the body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?
In the episode Erasing Fears & Traumas Based on the Modern Neuroscience of Fear | Huberman Lab Podcast #49 and the clip Deliberate Stress Intervention, Andrew talks about a process to erase fear and traumas by retelling the narrative to extinguish the fear or trauma and diminish the physiological response. If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, would changing the physiological response immediately after being triggered also diminish the physiological response over time and break the conditioning? For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider, and every time they see the spider or get triggered, they use breathwork to calm their body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?