Don Wood, a Ph.D. expert on trauma's effects on the mind and body, reveals fascinating insights on how unresolved trauma can impact our emotions and relationships. He emphasizes that trauma isn’t just a past issue but a glitch affecting current experiences. Don introduces innovative approaches to healing that enhance performance, including techniques for relaxation and neurofeedback. He also shares his thoughts on the links between trauma, health, and personal development, highlighting the transformative power of addressing emotional wounds.
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Misinterpreting Neutral Comments
Don Wood's wife, traumatized as a child, perceived his neutral comments negatively.
Her mind, trained to detect danger, misconstrued his tone based on past experiences.
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Trauma's High-Definition Storage
Trauma is stored in high definition, causing our minds to perceive past threats as present.
This glitch triggers physiological responses like fear or anger even when there's no real danger.
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Alpha Brainwave Reprocessing
Don Wood's trauma treatment involves guiding clients into an alpha brainwave state.
While in alpha, they revisit traumatic memories, allowing the mind to reprocess them without the intense beta brainwave activity.
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This episode of Bulletproof Radio was recorded live at the Genius Network. My guest spent years researching how trauma affects our minds and our lives. In doing so, he began to understand that events and experiences throughout our lifetime continue to play a role in how we experience life in the present.
“Trauma is a glitch, it's an error message,” says Don Wood, Ph.D. “If you think about something that happened to you 10 years ago and you feel fear or anger, or you feel an emotion, then that's affecting you.”
He also realized that there was a better way of treating the issue. “Teaching people to live with, manage and cope with the daily stress doesn’t fix the problem,” Don says. “The solution comes from understanding its source and providing a long-term permanent solution.”
So, Don developed a more efficient and effective solution for trauma using modern advancements in the study of neuroscience and cutting-edge proprietary techniques. The result has been the development of the Inspired Performance Institute and the creation of a revolutionary approach to performance improvement.
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