Someone used NLP techniques to go from screaming at spiders to letting one crawl on them without fear. They describe it as rewiring the nervous system, moving from panic to seeing spiders as fascinating rather than terrifying.
when I first learned the tools, the neuro-linguistic programming tools for shifting how I think. And, you know, like, for example, I had a phobia of spiders, like full-on phobia of spiders. And now I'll let spiders crawl on me. I don't care. But I had a full-on phobia. Like, and what's really cool with NLP is we can completely rewire our brain to be what we want. Like, I didn't want to be afraid of spiders. Now I'm not going to go like shove my hand in a cage of poisonous spiders or whatever. I'm not going to go do stupid stuff, but like, if a spider lands on me, I'm gonna be like, hey, that's so cool. Like, look at this. Whereas before, I'd be screaming my head off, inconsolable, right? So we can retrain our nervous system, we can retrain our brain, and optimizing our life for success and for joy and for better relationships
