Challenging Core Beliefs
Brad Jacobs discusses the intersection between meditation and cognitive therapy, highlighting the power of reframing thoughts and challenging core beliefs. He explores how these beliefs can lead to acts of terrorism and suggests that cognitive therapy could potentially be an antidote. James Altucher ponders the connection and the potential impact of therapy on terrorists.In this clip
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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? For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider and every time they see the spider or get triggered, they immediately use breathwork to calm the body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?
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?