False Memories
Erik and Jordan discuss the satanic panic that occurred in California and across the country, where a neighborhood believed a preschool was sacrificing snakes and abusing children. False memories were planted into some of the children, which was the real abuse. They delve into the power of beliefs and how they can have a physical effect on the body.In this clip
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The Jordan Harbinger Show
461: Erik Vance | The Curious Science of the Suggestible You
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?
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 uses breathwork to calm the body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear?
Erik Vance mentions that emotions have a huge physical effect on the body, how does that relate to the concept of diminishing physiological response through narrative retelling?