Emotional Resilience Strategies
Emotional resilience hinges on understanding and managing your nervous system, particularly during triggering situations. Practicing good self-care, including quality sleep and morning routines, sets the foundation for effective responses. While real-time tools may be limited, preparation and physical fitness can enhance your ability to handle stress when it arises.In this clip
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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?
If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, would changing a person's physiological response immediately after being triggered over time also diminish the physiological response and break the conditioning? For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider, and every time they see the spider or get activated through some trigger, they immediately use breathwork to calm the body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?
How do we reconcile Andrew Huberman's statement about maintaining mental calmness while physically stressed to raise the stress threshold with the physiological sigh technique for calming the body in the episodes Dr. Elissa Epel: Control Stress for Healthy Eating, Metabolism & Aging | Huberman Lab Podcast and Overcoming Overthinking?