Overcoming Fear
Matt and Jason discuss strategies for overcoming fear, including seeking advice from unbiased sources and verbalizing fears to diffuse their impact. They also reflect on their experiences navigating challenging moments in business and life, which have helped them build resilience and perspective.In this clip
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Related Questions
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?
For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider, and every time they see the spider or get activated through some trigger, they immediately use breathwork to calm their body, 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, 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?