Embracing Anxiety
Benoit explores the delicate power of words in discussing anxiety and trauma, emphasizing that rather than overcoming these feelings, individuals should seek to accept and find peace with them. He argues that anxiety is an integral part of one's identity, encouraging a shift in perspective from struggle to acceptance, which can lead to sustainable change.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?
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 uses breathwork to calm the body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?
I actually have a different approach to that, I think, rather than using the words, because I think more often than not, people underestimate the importance and the delicacy of words, because perception is reality, right?