How to erase fear and trauma (in 5 minutes a day)

Researchers conducted a study where they exposed depressed mice (yes mice get depressed) to intense stress, but only for 5 minutes a day.

What these researchers found was the complete opposite of what you’d expect…

Daily short bouts of intense stress actually reversed the effects of chronic stress. Specifically, at the levels of:

• Hormones

• Glucocorticoids

• And neurotransmitters

Now this is BEYOND exciting.

Because the mice can be happy again? Well, yes and no haha.

But because this backs how 5 minute a day respiration protocols can alleviate stress. But these aren’t breathing protocols that help you alleviate stress.

These protocols actually bring people to a heightened state of autonomic sympathetic arousal.

Or in English:

Stress.

Now this might sound backwards and the complete opposite of what’d you expect. So before you call me crazy let me explain…

The secret to erasing fear and trauma isn’t the state you’re in.

The secret to erasing fear and trauma is about how you entered that state, and whether or not you had anything to do with it.

This comes from the narrative that you’re experiencing internally.

More specifically a part of your brain called the insula. The insula plays a crucial role in interoception (awareness of internal body states), emotional processing, self-awareness, and a range of sensory and motor functions.

When something happens to you externally, like a car accident, the insula determines the reactions that happen to you internally, like raising your heartbeat.

So in the case of:

PTSD

• Trauma

• And extreme or chronic stress

Your insula ramps up your body’s internal fear responses (even from just a memory) or from an association you’re not aware of, like a trigger, and you start experiencing these stress alarms.

For example, someone touches your shoulder, and your body tenses up like you’re about to be hit by a car.

So how can you recalibrate this system? And how can you recalibrate it fast?

Hyperventilating.

Yes, this heightens the level of stress. But because you’re directing your own entry into this stressful state on purpose is the key here.

Why?

Because of how external events trigger the brain's circuitry to create internal responses.  This creates a deliberate reactivation of the sensations in the body which induces a psychological state.

But because it’s 5 minutes and self induced the insula learns that this stress response doesn’t have to create a large internal fear response.

Now you have to be careful.

Do this right, and you will be able to retrain your brain in 5 minutes a day for 2 weeks. But get it wrong, and you could heighten your sense of fear.

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Your doing great,

-Brian.