i’ve started playing around with using “unlearning” basically anywhere i used to use “healing” (thinking of trauma as rigidly learned patterns / viewpoints, rather than as vaguer “damage”). feels like a more accurate description. thoughts?https://twitter.com/_jordan_bates/status/1150606833427603457 …
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but I'm thinking now of the type of trauma with no acute stressor, but rather that which is the result of living in a chronically stressful environment for extended periods of time. disentangling what is to be "unlearned" from that experience is much harder I think.
yep, much harder but i think still possible. i have in mind learning / unlearning at potentially very low levels of the mindbody, like unlearning patterns of muscle tension in response to stressors. that image of a tree growing around a bike is very striking, thanks!
