Bypassing the Mind
People are increasingly struggling to engage with traditional mindfulness practices, often feeling more anxious instead of relaxed. The conversation highlights the limitations of willpower in overcoming anxiety and explores alternative methods like microdosing and acupuncture that aim to bypass the mind's defenses. The deep-rooted nature of the autonomic nervous system is emphasized, illustrating how primal survival mechanisms can override logical thinking, leading to panic attacks despite one's intelligence or education.In this clip
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LONGEVITY with Nathalie Niddam
Episode #161: Stefan Chmelik: Regulating the Nervous System, Mental Health, and Sensate
Related Questions
Is it true that the nervous system needs a different input at the right time to change a reaction, such as calming the body with breathwork when encountering a trigger for a fear or phobia, as discussed in the episode #353: How to Optimize Your Life with Neuroscience Professor & Elite Performance Coach and the clip Mindset and Control? 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, as discussed in the episode How Do We Let Go of Childhood Trauma? | Liz Arch on Women of Impact and the clip Embracing Fear?
Am I right to think that if a fear response happens in my body and I am able to immediately afterward act on it by using breathwork like physiological sighing to calm the body and controlling my thoughts to reinforce a non-threat, non-fear-based thought, I would be in the optimal window for neuroplasticity to occur and to break the trigger-fear response pattern, as discussed in the episode What Your Brain Does in an Emergency & Solitude Vs Loneliness and the clip Overcoming Stress Responses?
Am I right to think that if a fear response happens in my body and I am able to immediately afterward act on it by using breathwork like physiological sighing to calm the body and controlling my thoughts to reinforce a non-threat, non-fear-based thought, I would be in the optimal window for neuroplasticity to occur and to break the trigger-fear response pattern, as discussed in the episode What Your Brain Does in an Emergency & Solitude Vs Loneliness and the clip Overcoming Stress Responses?