Emotional Triggers Unpacked
Karden dives deep into the impact of emotional triggers on relationships, highlighting how a simple greeting can activate the nervous system and evoke past traumas. He emphasizes the importance of awareness and the need to interrupt habitual defensive patterns to foster healthier interactions. By recognizing these triggers, individuals can better navigate their emotional responses and improve communication with their partners.In this clip
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Related Questions
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?
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 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?