Changing Our Stories
Explore the importance of changing our stories in relationships and the questionable nature of psychological studies. Learn how reconceptualizing memories can lead to personal growth and a deeper connection in relationships.In this clip
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The Mark Groves Podcast
#108: Take Charge of Your Mind with Dr. Caroline Leaf
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 becomes guarded and distant, how much of our character is malleable? Or can people truly become stuck in their ways? This question relates to the episode #108: Take Charge of Your Mind with Dr. Caroline Leaf and the clip Changing Our Stories. It also connects to the episode "Psychologist Shows You How to CHANGE the Way You THINK About LIFE | Benjamin Hardy" and the clip "Embracing Post-Traumatic Growth."
In the episode #108: Take Charge of Your Mind with Dr. Caroline Leaf and the clip Changing Our Stories, 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? Am I right? 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 the body, would that work like retelling a narrative to extinguish the fear? Did I miss something?