Body Awareness Exercise
Exploring the connection between body sensations and emotions reveals profound insights. Chase shares his journey from feeling trapped in anger to experiencing a sense of calm and relief. This exercise highlights the importance of acknowledging our feelings and the transformative power of simply being curious about them.In this clip
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For example, if a person had a traumatic experience with a spider, but every time they see the spider or get activated through some 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?
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?
Is a better approach to expose yourself to mild stressors and practice calming techniques during and after them to build true autonomic flexibility in the context of episode #358: The Connection Between Self-Worth & Your Physical Body w/ Aaron Alexander and the clip Body Awareness Journey?