Embracing Emotional Pain
Emotional pain is often seen as something to avoid, but it can be a powerful teacher if we allow ourselves to sit with it. By fully experiencing anxiety and fear rather than suppressing them, we can drain their power and discover valuable lessons about ourselves. Embracing discomfort leads to a deeper understanding of our emotional landscape and ultimately fosters healing.In this clip
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Samantha Skelly - Breathe Away Your Fear: Unleashing the Power of Breath to Set Yourself Free
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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, 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? 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 afterward 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?