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🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 127 minutes
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0:00.0 | There are these experiments where they trained people to experience anxiety, but as determination. |
0:05.0 | Because exactly the same physical state could be experienced completely different. |
0:10.0 | And what they discovered is that at first it's really hard, but you practice, practice, practice, |
0:14.0 | and then eventually becomes really automatic. |
0:16.0 | So the first thing to understand is that... |
0:18.0 | Dr. Lisa Feldman-Berra is a world-leading neuroscientist. |
0:21.6 | Her groundbreaking research reveals that emotions like anxiety and trauma are built by the brain. |
0:26.6 | And we have the power to control them. |
0:28.6 | The story is that you're born with these innate emotion circuits, but you're not born with the ability to control them. |
0:33.6 | That's false. |
0:34.6 | Really what's happening is that your brain is not reacting, |
0:38.5 | it's predicting. And every action you take, every emotion you have, is a combination of the remembered |
0:44.3 | past, including any trauma. And so you don't have a sense of agency about it because it happens |
0:49.6 | really automatically faster than you can blink your eyes. How does this change how we should treat trauma? |
0:56.4 | Sometimes in life, you are responsible for changing something, not because you're to blame, |
1:01.7 | but because you're the only person who can. |
1:04.0 | I mean, I had a daughter who was clinically depressed. |
1:06.5 | It was getting D's in school. |
1:07.9 | She wasn't sleeping. |
1:09.1 | She was miserable. |
1:10.1 | At first, she was so resistant. |
1:11.6 | But then she made the decision that she wanted to be helped. |
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