Embracing Pain
Benoit discusses the counterintuitive approach of immersing oneself in pain to alleviate it, challenging the common fear surrounding discomfort. Vinny highlights the importance of confronting conflict without aggression, emphasizing that a healthy dialogue can de-escalate tension and promote healing. Their insights reveal how understanding and reframing our relationship with pain can lead to profound emotional growth.In this clip
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Did I miss something in my understanding of Andrew Huberman's process to erase fear and traumas in the clip Healing Through Sensation, where he talks about extinguishing the fear or trauma by retelling the narrative to diminish the physiological response? 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 and used breathwork to calm the body every time they see the spider or get activated through some trigger, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear?
If the goal is to diminish the physiological response, then if the 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?
Andrew talks about a process to erase fear and traumas, and he says 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 the 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?