Upgrading the Human Mind
Dive into the world of transpersonal psychology and explore how therapies like EMDR and neurological interventions can go beyond talk therapy to help reshape our reactive nervous systems. Discover the insights from Stan Groff's work and how they have influenced techniques like birth work and birth regressions, offering a nonlinear approach to healing and personal growth.In this clip
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I have a question about the episode #368: Polyvagal Path: Healing Your Nervous System & Your Life with Dr. Stephen Porges and the clip Trauma and Dysregulation. Is it true that the nervous system needs a different input at the right time to change a reaction? For example, if a person has a fear or phobia and their body becomes reactive when they encounter a trigger, would a solution be to try to calm the body with breathwork at that moment? Would this approach provide a different input to the nervous system so that over time it stops being activated by the original trigger? Is this how Pavlov's dogs experiment is used as a tool for changing the nervous system's responses?
I have a question about the episode The ANTI-AGING Protocol To Look & Feel YOUNGER (Reverse Aging) | Dave Asprey and the clip Stress Reduction Techniques. Is it true that the nervous system needs a different input at the right time to change a reaction, as discussed in episode #368: Polyvagal Path: Healing Your Nervous System & Your Life with Dr. Stephen Porges and the clip Body Awareness Journey? For example, if a person has a fear or phobia and their body becomes reactive when they encounter a trigger, would a solution be to try to calm the body with breathwork at that moment? Would this approach provide a different input to the nervous system so that over time it stops being activated by the original trigger? Is this how Pavlov's dogs experiment is used as a tool for changing the nervous system's responses?
In the episode Stanford Psychiatrist Reveals How Cognitive Therapy Can Cure Your Depression and Anxiety and the clip Perception and Reality, Andrew talks about a process to erase fear and traumas by retelling the narrative. He mentions that the whole point of that process is to diminish the physiological response. 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 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?