Emergency Responses
When faced with emergencies, people often revert to familiar behaviors, even in life-threatening situations. Amanda shares a poignant example of someone who instinctively grabbed a novel while fleeing a crisis, highlighting how our brains can prioritize the mundane over the critical. This phenomenon, explored by a neuroscientist, reveals that during high-stress moments, time can feel distorted, making seemingly trivial details stand out vividly.In this clip
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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, and every time they see the spider or get activated through some trigger, they immediately use breathwork to calm their body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?