Can you 'rewire' your unconscious responses to stimuli/stress (with meditation and qigong)?

[Sheng Qi]

Most brain structures work outside of our conscious control, and our responses to perceived danger are reflexes, where the autonomic nervous system has access to the subconscious mind where it retrieves information how to react to the threat. For example, people with PTSD from combat might easily startle from everyday noises when overwhelming memories of combat noises have been registered along with a reaction to these sensations.

I wonder whether it is possibly to uncouple such stimuli like sounds and the reaction  through Qigong or meditative practices, thus desensitising oneself to such stimuli?. One medical qigong doctor said that it is not possible unlearn such responses directly but you can learn a new response (and thus in effect 'unlearning' the previous response). He also said that your mind has to be in a relaxed state for a longer amount of time (through the nervus vagus/parasympathetic nervous system), before you can learn a new response to stimuli/stress etc.

Does anybody have an idea how Qigong and/or meditation could work in such rewiring of the unconscious brain? Can it strengthen the nervous system and aid in learning new responses to stimuli? Maybe it can clear out trauma's stored in the body and thus providing a more 'clean slate' to learn healthier nervous system reflexes.

Very curious as to what you guys think, 

thanks in advance!
 

[Lairg]

The subconscious can be usefully separated into:

- physical/etheric

- emotional

- mental.

 

Each part of the subconscious has its own separate intelligence - but trauma can fragment that into several uncoordinated intelligences.

 

There are also superconscious intelligences including heart and will/atma.

 

Trauma can be resolved by the human giving love to the damaged parts.

 

As the human lifts its life focus to more refined energy levels the energies that contain the traumas are progressively discarded.   The refining human grows out of the trauma.

 

Refinement progressively results in the discharging of adverse and parasitic entities.

 

Developing right relationships, internally and externally, qualifies the human for the discharge of personal and group karma

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 9, 2023 by Lairg

[liminal_luke]

3 hours ago, Sheng Qi said:

Most brain structures work outside of our conscious control, and our responses to perceived danger are reflexes, where the autonomic nervous system has access to the subconscious mind where it retrieves information how to react to the threat. For example, people with PTSD from combat might easily startle from everyday noises when overwhelming memories of combat noises have been registered along with a reaction to these sensations.

I wonder whether it is possibly to uncouple such stimuli like sounds and the reaction  through Qigong or meditative practices, thus desensitising oneself to such stimuli?. One medical qigong doctor said that it is not possible unlearn such responses directly but you can learn a new response (and thus in effect 'unlearning' the previous response). He also said that your mind has to be in a relaxed state for a longer amount of time (through the nervus vagus/parasympathetic nervous system), before you can learn a new response to stimuli/stress etc.

Does anybody have an idea how Qigong and/or meditation could work in such rewiring of the unconscious brain? Can it strengthen the nervous system and aid in learning new responses to stimuli? Maybe it can clear out trauma's stored in the body and thus providing a more 'clean slate' to learn healthier nervous system reflexes.

Very curious as to what you guys think, 

thanks in advance!
 

 

My (admittedly inexpert) opinion is that qigong and meditative practices can indeed help people develop new, more adaptive responses to formerly traumatic stimuli. There are several ways this could happen.  Most fundamentally, Qigong can strengthen the body which in turn changes everything.  When our body is strong we feel less threatened by the world generally.  There's a sense of confidence, the feeling that we'll be able to deal with whatever life throws at us.  The association between a given stimulus and danger may still be there but the physiological context is different.

Edited May 9, 2023 by liminal_luke

[Neirong]

3 hours ago, Sheng Qi said:

Most brain structures work outside of our conscious control, and our responses to perceived danger are reflexes, where the autonomic nervous system has access to the subconscious mind where it retrieves information how to react to the threat. For example, people with PTSD from combat might easily startle from everyday noises when overwhelming memories of combat noises have been registered along with a reaction to these sensations.

I wonder whether it is possibly to uncouple such stimuli like sounds and the reaction  through Qigong or meditative practices, thus desensitising oneself to such stimuli?. One medical qigong doctor said that it is not possible unlearn such responses directly but you can learn a new response (and thus in effect 'unlearning' the previous response). He also said that your mind has to be in a relaxed state for a longer amount of time (through the nervus vagus/parasympathetic nervous system), before you can learn a new response to stimuli/stress etc.

Does anybody have an idea how Qigong and/or meditation could work in such rewiring of the unconscious brain? Can it strengthen the nervous system and aid in learning new responses to stimuli? Maybe it can clear out trauma's stored in the body and thus providing a more 'clean slate' to learn healthier nervous system reflexes.

Very curious as to what you guys think, 

thanks in advance!
 

Yes, you can rewire and reprogram self through genuine practice. Solving past traumas is also possible.

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Change is one of the constants of life.

It is possible to shift, alter, change and transmute one's processes.