Thanks for all your super helpful/clear/insightful videos! Lovely and kind to share these!! One question: I was looking at the slide with the example and wondering: The physical arousal, would that not be there first, after which the emotions start, followed by the overwhelm? I'm trying to match this with my understandings (so far ;-) of the polyvagal theorie.Thx!
Yes, technically,the unconscious sensation/emotion comes before the conscious feeling by a few milliseconds. But people vary in terms of what building block of experience they notice/report first. And sometimes people may notice one aspect of experience and not others unless you really prompt them to remember. The main goal when you do a behavior chain is to get the general idea of a sequence of inner and outer events so that alternate skillful behaviors can be identified and the process can be useful.
