Healing Through Trauma
Healing is not just about overcoming challenges; it involves addressing the deep-seated impacts of trauma on the brain and nervous system. By understanding the interplay between thoughts and emotions, lasting change can occur, allowing individuals to break free from their programmed stress responses. True healing requires going beyond surface-level resilience to confront and transform the underlying emotional patterns that influence our well-being.In this clip
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32 - Bio Emotional Healing for Trauma, Illness & Pain w/ Ashleigh Di Lello
Related Questions
Is it true that the nervous system needs a different input at the right time to change a reaction, as discussed in the episode #273: Overcoming Challenges and Birthing a New You with Christine Hassler and the clip Navigating Triggers? 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 this episode 219. Dr. Caroline Leaf: Healing Trauma & Stress with Neuroscience and this Trauma and Healing. 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, would immediately using breathwork to calm the body work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear every time they see the spider or get activated through a trigger? Did I miss something?
In the episode How Do We Let Go of Childhood Trauma? | Liz Arch on Women of Impact and the clip Embracing Fear, how does neuroplasticity work when your body has a fear response to something but you want to change it—specifically, a reflexive response of your nervous system? If every time you see something that triggers the fear response, you use breathwork to calm your body and change your nervous system response, how do these two actions, which seem contradictory, engage neuroplasticity? Am I suppressing the fear response with breathwork, and what happens to the epinephrine and acetylcholine levels in that moment?