Trauma and Response
Stephen discusses how our biological responses to trauma can lead to physical and emotional issues if not properly addressed. He explains the cycle of repressed trauma, where past experiences trigger current reactions, often resulting in unhealthy coping mechanisms. The conversation highlights the importance of recognizing and processing these traumas to break the cycle and regain agency over our responses.In this clip
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Episode 876 - Michael Marcus / Dr. Steve
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?
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?
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?