Breaking Old Patterns
Mel explores how childhood experiences shape our emotional reactions in adulthood, often without our conscious awareness. She shares a personal story about struggling to manage her responses when interrupted, highlighting the importance of recognizing and pausing before reacting. By employing techniques like the five-second rule, we can begin to break free from these ingrained patterns and respond more thoughtfully.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 uses 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, where 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?