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
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?
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?
Would using breathwork to calm the body immediately after being triggered work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear?