Overcoming Trauma
Paul shares insights on how trauma can resurface and the power of recognizing and pushing back negative thoughts. He also emphasizes that understanding and making a change is approachable, despite the complexity of neuroscience.In this clip
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How To Fix Your Negative Inner Thoughts - Dr Paul Conti
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?
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?