Overcoming Cognitive Distractions
Shifting focus from overthinking to bodily awareness can help alleviate stress and improve performance. Automatic memories often resurface during critical moments, triggering anxiety and self-doubt. By processing these memories and emotions, individuals can learn to navigate their feelings and enhance their athletic performance, ultimately leading to a more confident approach in future situations.In this clip
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Related Questions
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 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?
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?