Emotional Acknowledgment
Understanding the root of feelings is crucial for emotional clarity. When expectations are unmet, it can lead to anger and deeper emotional disturbances like grief and guilt. Restructuring one's narrative from victimhood to empowerment is a challenging yet vital process for healing. Recognizing that past coping mechanisms were protective can pave the way for healthier emotional strategies moving forward.In this clip
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In the episode The Mental Game, Part 2 | Dr. Michael Gervais | EntreLeadership and the clip Mastering Emotional Instability, 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? Am I right? For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider, and every time they see the spider or get activated through some trigger, they immediately use breathwork to calm the body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?
I have a question about this episode The Mental Game, Part 2 | Dr. Michael Gervais | EntreLeadership and this Mastering Emotional Instability. 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?
How do negative experiences, such as being told how we should feel at a young age or into adulthood, get encoded into our brains, and how does not having permission to feel our real, biological emotions impact our future decisions?