Embodying Fear
Pema Chödrön shares a practical method for working with fear by physically feeling it in the body and using deep breaths to relax and expand. Dan Harris embraces the wisdom of the body and discusses how shifting attention from the mind to the body can break patterns of rumination and anxiety.In this clip
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Does this make sense or align with what Andrew Huberman discussed about erasing fear and trauma and the process required to do that? Can you explain to me the similarities and why meditation seems to work, even though people aren't actually retelling the narrative of the trauma over and over? It seems more like they are watching it and trying to keep their body calm to not engage with it physiologically.
I have a question about the episode How To Permanently Release Fear and Anxiety From the Body and the clip Fear's Root Cause. In the episode "Surprising Signs of Anxiety and How to Heal It | The Mel Robbins Podcast" and the segment "Healing Through Sensation," Andrew talks about a process to erase fear and traumas, saying 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? 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 uses breathwork to calm the body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?
Have there been stories of people who erased trauma through meditation by calming their bodies using breathwork every time a fear, trauma, or distressing thought appeared? Did those individuals dissociate from those feelings, not seeing the fear, trauma, or distressing thought as truth, but rather as trauma or stories? Did they then repeat another story to themselves, the one they chose to believe, over and over? Did they keep doing the process of observing the fear and trauma, calming their bodies, and reminding themselves of what they actually wanted to believe in?