Overcoming Fear
Victoria Arlen shares her experience of being locked in her own body and how she chose to overcome fear and find hope and gratitude. Lisa Bilyeu asks Victoria about her strategies for calming down and gathering thoughts during difficult times.In this clip
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Andrew talks about a process to erase fear and traumas, stating 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 they see the spider or get activated through a trigger, and immediately after use breathwork to calm the body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?
Most people listening or watching have, I'm sure, at some point dealt with sadness, depression, anxiety, some form of they feel like they've hit rock bottom. But as a functioning human, you can do things. You can write post-it notes, put them on your mirror. You can have mantras. But when all you have is your mind, take me through how you actually coax yourself through that?