Normalizing the Experience
Tim Ferriss shares his insights on the power of normalizing and de-escalating experiences, whether it's during therapy sessions or in everyday conversations. By empathizing and making it normal, we can help others feel at ease and navigate through difficult situations.In this clip
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The whole point of that is to diminish the physiological response, right? If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, then if the 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 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?
I also have a question about the episode Josh Waitzkin on Beginner’s Mind, Self Actualization and More | The Tim Ferriss Show and the segment Embracing Urgency, where Andrew talks about a process to erase fear and traumas. He mentions that first you need to extinguish the fear or trauma by retelling the narrative to diminish the physiological response. If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, would working to change that response immediately after being triggered over time also diminish the physiological response and break the conditioning? Am I right in thinking that? For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider and immediately uses breathwork to calm the body after being triggered, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?
If the goal is to diminish the physiological response to trauma, would it also work to change that response immediately after being triggered to eventually 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?