Joy Conditioning Explained
Wendy introduces the concept of "joy conditioning," a method to counteract fear conditioning by creating positive memories tied to specific places or experiences. She shares her personal experience of overcoming the anxiety linked to a traumatic event by inviting friends over and fostering joyful moments. While joy conditioning can help with everyday fears, it’s important to recognize its limits, especially when dealing with more severe trauma.In this clip
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If You STRUGGLE With Stress & Anxiety, This Trick Will CHANGE YOUR LIFE! | Wendy Suzuki
Related Questions
If we can't forget traumatic events but can modify our emotional response to past events, can the changes to a person's character following an event also be reversed or altered? For example, if someone who was once very positive and engaging returns from war or suffers the loss of a parent/spouse and as a result becomes guarded and distant, how much of our 'character' is malleable? Or can people truly become 'stuck in their ways'?
How do we learn to heal the memory and the emotion of that fear of that trauma? To live with ourselves or to live in the environment of a home that we can't leave yet? Or how do we. Is it just more joy conditioning? Are there other things?
Did I miss something in the process Andrew describes to erase fear and traumas in the episode "Why You Feel So Anxious All The Time - Dr Russell Kennedy | Modern Wisdom Podcast 563" and the clip "Memory and Trauma"? 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 used breathwork to calm their body immediately after being triggered, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear?