Body and Trauma
The discussion highlights how early childhood trauma is often stored in the body rather than the mind, particularly for those under three years old. Sensory experiences, such as smells and sounds, can trigger feelings of terror even when the individual lacks a concrete memory of the event. This emphasizes the importance of somatic experiencing as a means to process and heal from trauma, allowing individuals to reconnect with their bodily sensations to understand their emotional responses.In this clip
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Andrew talks about a process to erase fear and traumas, and he says 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 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?
Did I miss something in my understanding of Andrew's process to erase fear and traumas in the clip Healing Through Sensation, where he talks about extinguishing the fear or trauma by retelling the narrative to diminish the physiological response? 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 used breathwork to calm the body every time they see the spider or get activated through some trigger, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear?