Confronting Trauma
Deliberate self-exposure to troubling experiences is crucial for reprogramming emotional responses. Avoiding discomfort may lead to increased anxiety, as confronting trauma can provide a pathway to healing. Tools like the Reveri app can assist in navigating these challenges, empowering individuals to face their past and adjust their emotional reactions.In this clip
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In the clip Healing Through Sensation, Andrew discusses 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 is to diminish the physiological response, right? 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, 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?
In the episode Master Your Mind & Change Your Brain - Andrew Huberman | Modern Wisdom 496 and the clip Confronting Trauma, Andrew talks about extinguishing the fear or trauma by retelling the narrative to diminish the physiological response. Is the whole point 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 the person sees the spider or gets activated and immediately uses breathwork to calm the body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?
I have a question about the process to erase fear and traumas as described by Andrew Huberman in his episodes LIVE EVENT Q\&A: Dr. Andrew Huberman Question & Answer in Melbourne, AU and Understanding Childhood Trauma, as well as in The Neuroscience of Optimal Performance: Dr. Andrew Huberman | Rich Roll Podcast and Understanding Trauma's Roots. He mentions that the first step is to extinguish the fear or trauma by retelling the narrative, with the goal of diminishing the physiological response. 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?