Embracing Discomfort
Embracing discomfort can transform anxiety into a signal for growth rather than fear. By reframing negative experiences and practicing exposure therapy, individuals can gradually reduce their fears, leading to increased confidence in social situations. Visualization techniques can further enhance this process, allowing people to confront their anxieties without leaving their comfort zones.In this clip
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In the episode 838: Classic ACP Why Avoidance and Aversion Don't Help With Anxiety and the clip Changing Anxiety Perspectives, 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, but every time they see the spider or get activated through a trigger, and immediately after 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 838: Classic ACP Why Avoidance and Aversion Don't Help With Anxiety and this Changing Anxiety Perspectives. 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?