Understanding Anxiety
Anxiety often begins with a physical reaction that we label as such, leading to catastrophic thinking where we overestimate risks and underestimate our ability to cope. Controlled breathing serves as a powerful tool to calm the body by activating the parasympathetic nervous system, helping to reset our state of being. This biological intervention can shift our response to anxiety, allowing for a more balanced perspective.In this clip
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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?
Is it true that the nervous system needs a different input at the right time to change a reaction, as discussed in 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?