Managing Reactions
Emphasizing the importance of pausing before reacting, Nancy highlights how a measured response can transform our perception of perceived threats and insults. By cultivating a charitable disposition towards our emotions, we can navigate anger and desire more effectively, aiming for a serene and equitable state of mind. The aspiration is not perfection, but rather a healthier approach to our emotional landscape.In this clip
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Lessons from Stoicism and The Military | Nancy Sherman | The Knowledge Project 126
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I have a question about this episode Lessons from Stoicism and The Military | Nancy Sherman | The Knowledge Project 126 and this Emotions and Reflection. 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?
In the episode Lessons from Stoicism and The Military | Nancy Sherman | The Knowledge Project 126 and the clip Emotions and Reflection, Andrew talks about a process to erase fear and traumas, stating 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 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?
I have a question about the episode Lessons from Stoicism and The Military | Nancy Sherman | The Knowledge Project 126 and the clip Emotion and Reason. Andrew Huberman has stated that, perhaps counterintuitively, to control how we feel and perceive things, we need to run the process backward. I'm struggling with this because, on the whole, action follows thought, and even Andrew himself has stated the importance of mindset. What's going on here?