Understanding Your 'Hot Spots' and Why Willpower Never Works
"The neuroscience behind why old memories still trigger fight, flight, or freeze."
- Why logic and intellectual reasoning fail during acute emotional hijacking.
- How Event Havening® down-regulates the amygdala using gentle somatic delta waves.
- Practical steps to interrupt the fight-or-flight cycle before it erupts.
Have you ever had an emotional reaction that felt totally disproportionate to the event itself, leaving you feeling frustrated with yourself afterwards?
I call these moments 'Hot Spots'. They happen when a current situation subconsciously matches an unresolved experience from your past. Your primitive brain doesn't know it is 2026; it believes you are under threat right now.
This is why telling yourself to 'just calm down' never works. You cannot think your way out of a nervous system reaction.
Through techniques like Event Havening®, we deliberately introduce soothing sensory delta waves that de-potentiate the receptors in the brain, freeing you from automated fight, flight, freeze, or fawn reactions.
Author & Practitioner
Shiona Head
PASEDA360® Practitioner • Event Havening® Specialist