Overcoming Amygdala Hijack
Amy shares practical strategies for dealing with amygdala hijack, such as mindfulness and questioning assumptions, based on her personal experiences and research. She also emphasizes the importance of self-care and perspective-taking in managing emotional responses.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? 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?
Andrew Huberman has stated that, perhaps counterintuitively, to control how we feel and perceive things, we need to run the process backward. I'm struggling with this because, on the whole, action follows thought, and even Andrew himself has stated the importance of mindset. What's going on here?