Connectedness and Pain
The conversation delves into the nature of human connectedness, highlighting that our skin is often perceived as a barrier to empathy. Insights reveal that our consciousness is intertwined with others, suggesting that understanding and experiencing another's pain is possible through shared neural pathways. Additionally, the discussion touches on a complex condition affecting healing, illustrating the intricate relationship between physical pain and the brain's perception of injury.In this clip
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I have a question about this episode Jonathan Reisman: The Human Body - From Sex & Sperm to Hands & Heart | Lex Fridman Podcast #297 and this Healing Through Understanding. 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 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?
In episode #430: The Narcissism Epidemic: Reclaiming Connection in a Disconnected World with Teal Swan and the clip Embracing Triggers, could I say that the nightmares or recounting of traumatic experiences during REM sleep is actually the brain providing continuity to a process of healing the trauma by reprocessing the traumatic experience without the emotional component? If you have a memory but don't have a strong emotion associated with it, are you essentially free of the trauma? Is it like neuroplasticity but for trauma, where the brain is replaying a traumatic experience without the emotional load, creating a new association so that the memory exists without any emotional attachment?