Childhood Trauma Reactions
Mel shares a personal experience that highlights how childhood trauma can resurface as reactions rather than just feelings. She emphasizes the importance of being aware of these reactions and using tools like breath and self-awareness to calm the mind and settle oneself.In this clip
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Related Questions
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?
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?
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 process is to diminish the physiological response, right?