Running Man Self Regulation Skills Project

Armando Dominguez PhD Health Psychology, Educator, Martial Artist, Researcher
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Understanding Stress, Anxiety, and Decision-Making: Unveiling Your Paleo-Caveperson Wiring Explore the fascinating interplay of stress, anxiety, and pain on our ability to think, choose, and act in modern life through the lens of our paleo-caveperson wiring and survival programming. Discover why we sometimes exhibit socially inappropriate behaviors under stress and find it challenging to make sound decisions in tense situations. Gain insights from psychology, neuropsychology, physiology, sociology, biology, and social dynamics, explained in everyday language without overwhelming scientific jargon. Tell me what you would like to hear on the podcast and your feedback is appreciated: runningmangetskillsproject@gmail.com Book Link for the Running Man Resiliency in the Face of Fight or Flight on Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/Running-Man-Resiliency-Fight-Flight/dp/B0H6YGJ4WJ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2BOI7ZY2912AF&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.PCsHx0Q_bb1rbtF4Vdy8-Q.KiSLfzdnqigm6wCU3kvtrKmnfGdICRvwM8WLVhfpx8Y&dib_tag=se&keywords=running+man+resiliency+in+the+face+of+fight+flight&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1783315890&sprefix=running+man+resil%2Caps%2C305&sr=8-1  rogue musician/creator located at lazyman 2303 on youtube.     Music intro and outro: Jonathan Dominguez  You can Support the running man self regulation skill project at:  https://www.buzzsprout.com/2216464/support

  1. 6d ago

    De-Escalation Begins With You: The Nervous System Skill Most People Miss

    Ep 163. De-Escalation Begins With You: The Skill Most People Forget When we hear the word de-escalation, we often imagine dangerous confrontations—an angry person, a volatile encounter, or a situation moving toward violence. But de-escalation is happening around us every day. At home. At work. In relationships. In public. With strangers. During disagreements. Whenever human beings bring different emotional and physiological states into the same environment, there is potential for either escalation or regulation. And one of the most overlooked elements of de-escalation is not what we say to the other person. It is the state we bring to them. Before verbal de-escalation begins, our nervous system is already communicating. Our posture. Facial expression. Movement. Distance. Breathing. Eye behavior. Voice. Prosody. Cadence. Volume. All can contribute to how another person experiences our presence. This is why effective de-escalation begins with self-regulation. Current conflict research and practice increasingly recognize this connection between nervous-system activation and communication. Recent programs explicitly emphasize that escalation changes how people communicate and that regulation can influence whether an interaction moves toward greater conflict or resolution.  The Running Man Human Stress Model takes this one step further. You cannot reliably offer calm that you have never practiced inhabiting yourself. Reading about de-escalation is useful. Learning verbal techniques is useful. Memorizing phrases can be useful. But when stress rises and fight-or-flight activation begins, intellectual knowledge alone may become harder to access. This is why de-escalation must become an embodied skill. Practice it. Experience it. Become familiar with it. Learn how your own physiology changes under pressure. Learn how to return toward center. Because when another person begins escalating, your own nervous system may be tempted to join them. Their voice rises. Yours rises. Their movements accelerate. Yours accelerate. Their threat response activates. Yours follows. Now two nervous systems are contributing to escalation. But another possibility exists. One regulated person can change the trajectory of an interaction. Not by magically controlling another human being. Not by guaranteeing safety. And not by pretending danger isn't present. But by refusing to unnecessarily add another source of activation to an already escalating environment. That is a very different understanding of power. Your calm becomes functional. Your voice becomes a tool. Your presence becomes information. Your awareness allows you to observe changes in the environment while simultaneously monitoring changes within yourself. And your self-regulation helps preserve access to the Action Gate—that threshold between activation and action where another response may still be available. This gives us a powerful progression: SELF-REGULATION → PRESENCE → COMMUNICATION → DE-ESCALATION → SAFER OUTCOME Verbal de-escalation is extraordinarily valuable because words, tone, listening, boundaries, distance, and respectful communication may help resolve an encounter before physical intervention ever becomes necessary. Current de-escalation training similarly emphasizes active listening, tone, body language, emotional awareness, boundaries, rehearsal, and learning when to disengage or seek additional help.  And that last point matters. De-escalation is not submission. It does not mean tolerating abuse. It does not mean remaining in an unsafe environment. And it does not guarantee that another person will calm down. Sometimes the safest decision is creating distance, leaving, seeking assistance, or contacting appropriate emergency resources. Self-regulation isn't about making yourself passive. It is about helping preserve your capacity to perceive accurately, choose skillfully, and act appropriately. When verbal de-escalation works, diplomacy succeeds before physical conflict becomes necessary. When it does not, maintaining awareness and regulation can still help us recognize that the situation has crossed an important threshold and that our priorities must change. This is why self-regulation belongs at the foundation of de-escalation training. Not merely as theory. As practice. As familiarity. As embodiment. Because the most important moment to discover whether you can remain centered is not while reading about conflict. It is when conflict arrives. Regulate yourself. Bring presence. Lower the temperature. Preserve the Action Gate. Choose what happens next. Take care and walk well. Hey folks, let me know what you think about the Running Man Podcast. Let me know where you're from and how you are doing in your little part of the world! Support the show intro outro music for episodes 1 through 111 done by Jonathan Dominguez Rogue musician. He can be found on youtube at Lazyman2303.  New musical intro and outro music created by Ed Fernandez guitarist extraordinaire.  To get in contact with Ed please send me an email at runningmangetskillsproject@gmail.com and I will forward him the contact.  Donations are not expected but most certainly appreciated. Any funds will go toward further development of the podcast for equipment as we we grow the podcast. Many thanks in advance.  https://www.buzzsprout.com/2216464/support

    De-Escalation Begins With You: The Nervous System Skill Most People Miss

  2. Aug 30

    The Action Gate: The Moment That Can Change Everything

    Ep 162.  The Action Gate: The Moment Between Reaction and ChoiceWhat if one of the greatest opportunities to change your life exists in a space so small that most of us never recognize it? Every day, something happens. Someone says something. A conflict begins. An unexpected problem appears. We experience rejection, pressure, fear, anger, uncertainty, or sudden change. Our nervous system reacts. And then—we act. But between what happens to us and what we ultimately do may exist a critical opportunity. Within the Running Man Human Stress Model, I call this the Action Gate. The Action Gate is the transition between activation and action—the place where awareness and self-regulation may increase our capacity to move from automatic reaction toward deliberate response. This distinction becomes especially important under stress. When fight-or-flight activation rises, urgency can increase. Attention can narrow. Old beliefs, learned patterns, assumptions, and practiced behaviors can become increasingly influential. Our available choices may begin to feel smaller. Sometimes reaction is necessary. Genuine danger may demand immediate action. But much of modern life does not require an instantaneous survival response. A difficult email isn't a charging predator. A disagreement isn't necessarily an attack. A stressful meeting isn't automatically a threat to survival. Yet our physiology may begin mobilizing before our deliberate reasoning has fully evaluated what is happening. This is why learning to recognize the Action Gate matters. It is not about becoming passive. It is not about suppressing emotion. And it is not about endlessly thinking before acting. It is about becoming sufficiently aware and regulated to recognize when another response may be available. Activation does not always have to become automatic action. Within that small space lies the possibility of self-regulation. A breath. A change in posture. A widening of visual attention. Recognition of our physiological state. An interruption of an old behavioral pattern. A moment in which another option becomes visible. And sometimes that moment changes everything downstream. The Running Man Human Stress Model teaches that regulation can help restore access to choice. And choice restores agency. We can move from: Trigger → Reaction toward: Trigger → Recognition → Regulation → Choice → Response That transition is the Action Gate. And like every meaningful skill, our ability to use it can be practiced. We practice recognizing activation. We practice returning toward center. We practice creating enough internal space to see alternatives. Eventually, something that once required tremendous conscious effort can become increasingly familiar. This is where the Running Man Transformation Path becomes important: Knowledge → Insight → Embodiment First, we learn that the Action Gate exists. Then we begin recognizing it within our own lives. Finally, through practice and repetition, we become increasingly capable of accessing it when pressure is real. This is how transformation becomes more than an idea. It becomes embodied. We can adapt. We can overcome. We can become. And sometimes profound change begins within an extraordinarily small space: The Action Gate. Recognize the moment. Regulate the state. Recover the choice. Choose what happens next. Take care and walk well. Hey folks, let me know what you think about the Running Man Podcast. Let me know where you're from and how you are doing in your little part of the world! Support the show intro outro music for episodes 1 through 111 done by Jonathan Dominguez Rogue musician. He can be found on youtube at Lazyman2303.  New musical intro and outro music created by Ed Fernandez guitarist extraordinaire.  To get in contact with Ed please send me an email at runningmangetskillsproject@gmail.com and I will forward him the contact.  Donations are not expected but most certainly appreciated. Any funds will go toward further development of the podcast for equipment as we we grow the podcast. Many thanks in advance.  https://www.buzzsprout.com/2216464/support

    The Action Gate: The Moment That Can Change Everything

  3. Aug 23

    Stress Is Making Choices for You—Here's How to Take Back Control

    Ep 161.  Choice Under Pressure: How Stress Shapes the Decisions That Shape Your LifeEvery day we make choices. Some are small. What will I eat? Where will I go? What will I say? Others can change the direction of our relationships, careers, health, finances, safety, and lives. But there is something important about decision-making that we rarely consider: We do not make choices independently of our state. We make choices through our state. At home, at work, and during everyday interactions in public, our decisions emerge from a constantly changing combination of desire, necessity, emotion, belief, perception, experience, and stress. And when pressure rises, the way we choose can change. Stress can alter attention, increase urgency, influence judgment, and change the options we perceive as available. Something that seems obvious when we are relaxed may look completely different when we are afraid, angry, anxious, overwhelmed, exhausted, or under severe time pressure. This is the stress lens. And we are often unaware that we are looking through it. Our beliefs influence what we notice. Our physiological state influences what feels important. Our perception of time influences how urgently we believe we must act. Our environment influences whether we feel safe enough to consider alternatives. Together, these forces can quietly shape a decision before conscious reasoning has fully entered the moment. This is why choices made under pressure can sometimes become costly. We react too quickly. We assume. We narrow our options. We say something we later regret. We commit when we should wait. We hesitate when we should act. Or we mistake the intensity of a feeling for the accuracy of a conclusion. But pressure does not have to completely determine the choice. Self-regulation creates space. Space creates awareness. Awareness creates options. And options increase the possibility of making a more skillful decision. The Running Man Human Stress Model teaches a physiology-first approach to recognizing stress activation before attempting to reason our way through it. We learn to recognize the body. Recognize the state. Recognize the narrowing of perception. Recognize urgency. Recognize when our internal experience may be influencing what we believe is happening externally. And then regulate. Not so that we become passive. Not so that every decision becomes slow. But so that when circumstances permit, we recover enough physiological and perceptual flexibility to choose rather than merely react. This is where aplomb—grace under pressure—becomes a trainable capacity. The objective is not perfect decision-making. The objective is greater access to ourselves when decisions matter. Through recognition, awareness, deliberate practice, and skilled self-regulation, we can become increasingly familiar with maintaining center while pressure rises. And familiarity matters. Because the skill we repeatedly practice during lower-stakes moments becomes increasingly available when the stakes become real. Over time, better regulation can support better choices. Better choices influence better outcomes. And repeated outcomes participate in shaping the life we ultimately live. Recognize your state. Create space. Recover your options. Choose skillfully. Take care and walk well. Hey folks, let me know what you think about the Running Man Podcast. Let me know where you're from and how you are doing in your little part of the world! Support the show intro outro music for episodes 1 through 111 done by Jonathan Dominguez Rogue musician. He can be found on youtube at Lazyman2303.  New musical intro and outro music created by Ed Fernandez guitarist extraordinaire.  To get in contact with Ed please send me an email at runningmangetskillsproject@gmail.com and I will forward him the contact.  Donations are not expected but most certainly appreciated. Any funds will go toward further development of the podcast for equipment as we we grow the podcast. Many thanks in advance.  https://www.buzzsprout.com/2216464/support

    Stress Is Making Choices for You—Here's How to Take Back Control

  4. Aug 16

    Why You Keep Repeating the Same Patterns—and How to Break Them

    Ep 160.  Pattern Recognition: The Hidden Survival System That Can Change Your LifePattern recognition is one of the most powerful abilities of the human brain. We often think of pattern recognition as the ability to observe someone's behavior, recognize familiar situations, predict what might happen next, or make better decisions at work, at home, and in our relationships. But pattern recognition is much older—and much more important—than that. For our ancestors, recognizing patterns could mean the difference between life and death. A pattern among leaves might simply be vegetation. Or it might be the camouflage of a venomous snake. A movement in the distance might be meaningless. Or it might signal opportunity, danger, predator, prey, friend, or foe. The human nervous system became extraordinarily skilled at detecting patterns because prediction improves survival. But there is another side to pattern recognition. We don't only recognize patterns around us. We create patterns within ourselves. From our earliest years, we learn by observing. We watch caregivers. We listen to language. We imitate behavior. We absorb assumptions about relationships, safety, success, failure, conflict, money, love, trust, fear, and even ourselves. Before we are old enough to critically examine these beliefs, we may already be practicing them. In childhood, imitation serves an important function. The adults around us provide food, protection, shelter, belonging, and guidance. Learning their patterns helps us navigate the environment upon which we depend. In the simplest terms, survival can sometimes look a lot like: Monkey see. Monkey do. But children eventually become adults. And some of the patterns that helped us navigate an earlier environment may no longer serve the life we are living today. A behavior may have an underlying assumption. An assumption may conceal an underlying belief. And a belief repeated often enough can begin shaping behavior automatically. This is where pattern recognition becomes one of the most powerful tools for personal transformation. Instead of only asking: "What am I doing?" we can begin asking: "What pattern is underneath what I am doing?" Awareness gives us the opportunity to see the pattern. But awareness alone does not complete transformation. We must also develop the capacity to envision another possibility. What do I want to do differently? How do I want to respond? Who am I practicing becoming? This is where belief, intention, imagination, and repeated action begin working together. The Running Man Human Stress Model teaches that many of our fastest reactions occur before deliberate reasoning has fully entered the moment. That is precisely why lasting change cannot depend exclusively upon deciding that we will "do better next time." We must practice something different. Repeated experience builds familiarity. Familiarity creates greater access under pressure. And deliberate practice can gradually transform a new response from something we intellectually understand into something we can actually embody. This connects directly with three stages of transformation: Knowledge → Insight → Embodiment Knowledge allows us to understand the pattern. Insight allows us to recognize the pattern within ourselves. Embodiment allows us to practice another response until it becomes increasingly familiar. Modern habit research likewise emphasizes that durable behavior change involves repeated behavior, environmental cues, reinforcement, and identity—not simply willpower. This means your past patterns are influential. But they do not have to become your permanent future. What you repeatedly witnessed may have shaped you. What you repeatedly heard may have influenced what you believed. What you repeatedly practiced may have become automatic. But awareness allows the pattern to become visible. Practice allows another pattern to become possible. And embodiment allows change to become increasingly natural. No magic. No instant transformation. Recognition. Awareness. Practice. Repetition. Embodiment. You can recognize the patterns that no longer serve you. You can challenge inherited assumptions. You can practice different behaviors. And you can participate consciously in the person you are becoming. See the pattern. Interrupt the pattern. Practice the alternative. Become. Take care and walk well. Hey folks, let me know what you think about the Running Man Podcast. Let me know where you're from and how you are doing in your little part of the world! Support the show intro outro music for episodes 1 through 111 done by Jonathan Dominguez Rogue musician. He can be found on youtube at Lazyman2303.  New musical intro and outro music created by Ed Fernandez guitarist extraordinaire.  To get in contact with Ed please send me an email at runningmangetskillsproject@gmail.com and I will forward him the contact.  Donations are not expected but most certainly appreciated. Any funds will go toward further development of the podcast for equipment as we we grow the podcast. Many thanks in advance.  https://www.buzzsprout.com/2216464/support

    Why You Keep Repeating the Same Patterns—and How to Break Them

  5. Aug 9

    When Survival Mode Becomes Your Personality: How to Return to Yourself

    Ep 159. When Stress Changes Who You Are: How to Return to Center Stress is universal. Whether we live in a major city or a rural community, whether we are struggling financially or professionally successful, every human being must navigate uncertainty, pressure, conflict, responsibility, and threats to the things we value. Modern life has changed dramatically over the last two centuries, but the human stress response has not disappeared. Industrialization, technology, constant connectivity, economic pressure, information overload, social demands, and the accelerating pace of everyday life have created new forms of chronic stress alongside many of the challenges human beings have always faced. Our ancestors navigated physical danger, scarcity, weather, disease, competition, and threats to family and community. We navigate many of those same fundamental concerns—but now they may arrive through a workplace, relationship, financial obligation, social interaction, electronic device, or uncertainty about the future. The environment changes. The nervous system still has to adapt. The problem is not that we experience stress. Stress activation is part of normal human functioning; regulation is better understood as the capacity to respond appropriately and return toward baseline than as remaining calm all the time.  The problem begins when we remain in stressful states for so long that those states begin to feel like who we are. We may become harder. More guarded. More suspicious. More reactive. More controlling. More withdrawn. Sometimes these adaptations are useful. They help us survive difficult environments, perform demanding jobs, endure conflict, or protect the people we love. But there is a danger. A survival adaptation practiced long enough can begin to masquerade as identity. The person we needed to become to survive an environment can slowly overshadow the person we remember ourselves to be. This is where self-regulation becomes about far more than stress reduction. It becomes about returning to center. The Running Man Human Stress Model teaches a physiology-first approach to recognizing stress activation, regulating the nervous system, preserving clarity under pressure, and recovering after difficult experiences. The objective isn't to eliminate stress. It isn't to become passive. And it certainly isn't to become incapable of responding forcefully when circumstances genuinely require it. The goal is adaptive range. To rise when necessary. To act when necessary. To protect when necessary. And then to be able to come back. Current discussions of nervous-system regulation similarly distinguish genuine regulation from constant serenity: healthy regulation includes appropriate activation and the capacity to recover rather than remaining chronically mobilized.  That return matters. Because chronic stress can gradually influence our perceptions, relationships, behavior, and sense of personal agency. Contemporary nervous-system discussions increasingly focus on protective survival patterns learned through experience and on restoring flexibility rather than treating every reaction as simply a mindset problem.  You are more than the role you perform. More than your profession. More than your defensive adaptations. More than the version of yourself required to survive your hardest days. Self-regulation gives us a way to recognize when the environment is beginning to choose our state—and ultimately our behavior—for us. Center down. Recover your clarity. Return to the person beneath the pressure. And from that center, walk consciously into whatever comes next. Take care and walk well. Hey folks, let me know what you think about the Running Man Podcast. Let me know where you're from and how you are doing in your little part of the world! Support the show intro outro music for episodes 1 through 111 done by Jonathan Dominguez Rogue musician. He can be found on youtube at Lazyman2303.  New musical intro and outro music created by Ed Fernandez guitarist extraordinaire.  To get in contact with Ed please send me an email at runningmangetskillsproject@gmail.com and I will forward him the contact.  Donations are not expected but most certainly appreciated. Any funds will go toward further development of the podcast for equipment as we we grow the podcast. Many thanks in advance.  https://www.buzzsprout.com/2216464/support

    When Survival Mode Becomes Your Personality: How to Return to Yourself

  6. Aug 2

    The 3 Steps That Turn Stress Into Strength

    Ep 158. The Three Steps That Transform Stress Into Strength Stress and anxiety have become constant companions in modern life. Whether we live in a busy city, a quiet rural community, or anywhere else in the world, life continually presents us with unexpected challenges, uncertainty, change, and moments that test our ability to adapt. Most of these situations are not truly life-threatening. Yet our nervous system often responds as though they are. A difficult conversation. An unexpected financial setback. A health concern. A demanding workplace. A family conflict. A sudden change in plans. Each can activate the same neurological survival systems designed to protect us from physical danger. The question is not whether stress will appear. The question is whether we have trained ourselves to respond skillfully when it does. The Running Man Human Stress Model teaches that lasting resilience is not created through motivation alone. It is built through skill. Like every meaningful skill, self-regulation develops through a progressive process. Step One: Knowledge Every transformation begins with understanding. We first learn what the nervous system is doing and why it responds the way it does. Knowledge provides the roadmap. Without understanding, meaningful practice has no direction. Step Two: Insight Knowledge changes how we think. Insight changes how we see. As our understanding deepens, we begin recognizing our own stress patterns, emotional reactions, and habitual responses in real time. The world begins to look different because our interpretation has changed. Awareness creates possibility. Step Three: Embodied Skill Knowledge and insight are only the beginning. Transformation occurs when repeated practice rewires the nervous system. Breathing becomes natural. Awareness becomes automatic. Calm becomes familiar. The skill becomes part of who we are. This is embodied knowledge. It is no longer something we remember. It becomes something we do without conscious effort. The Running Man Human Stress Model is built upon this progression. Knowledge. Insight. Embodiment. The goal is not simply to understand stress. The goal is to become someone who can remain centered while moving through it. Every meaningful discipline follows this path. Learning. Practicing. Becoming. This is how martial artists develop mastery. It is how musicians perform effortlessly. It is how athletes compete under pressure. And it is how we transform our relationship with stress. The nervous system learns through repetition. The body learns through experience. The person changes through practice. Lasting transformation is not an event. It is a process. Train consistently. Become familiar with calm. Expand your capacity. And allow resilience to become second nature. Take care. Walk well. Hey folks, let me know what you think about the Running Man Podcast. Let me know where you're from and how you are doing in your little part of the world! Support the show intro outro music for episodes 1 through 111 done by Jonathan Dominguez Rogue musician. He can be found on youtube at Lazyman2303.  New musical intro and outro music created by Ed Fernandez guitarist extraordinaire.  To get in contact with Ed please send me an email at runningmangetskillsproject@gmail.com and I will forward him the contact.  Donations are not expected but most certainly appreciated. Any funds will go toward further development of the podcast for equipment as we we grow the podcast. Many thanks in advance.  https://www.buzzsprout.com/2216464/support

    The 3 Steps That Turn Stress Into Strength

  7. Jul 27

    Before People Hear Your Words, They Feel Your Nervous System

    Ep 157.  Before People Hear Your Words, They Experience Your Nervous System Every day we communicate. Whether at home, at work, with friends, strangers, clients, or family, our lives are built upon thousands of social interactions. Yet beneath every conversation lies a powerful force that most people rarely notice. Our nervous systems are communicating long before our words begin. Human beings are constantly reading subtle social signals. Facial expression, posture, breathing, movement, eye behavior, vocal tone, rhythm, pacing, and emotional presence all influence whether another person perceives us as safe, trustworthy, competent, or threatening. Much of this communication happens automatically. Long before conscious thought, our brains begin asking: **Is this person safe?** **Can I trust them?** **Should I approach or withdraw?** These rapid assessments shape conversations, relationships, leadership, teamwork, negotiation, parenting, counseling, and even conflict resolution. This is the hidden language of human interaction. Modern neuroscience and social psychology demonstrate that emotions and physiological states are contagious. Stress spreads. Calm spreads. Confidence spreads. Fear spreads. Our internal state influences the emotional climate around us. This phenomenon—often called **social contagion**—helps explain why one calm, regulated individual can stabilize an entire group, while one highly dysregulated individual can increase anxiety throughout a room. Our presence matters. Our physiology matters. Our voice matters. One of the most powerful yet overlooked tools of influence is **prosody**—the melody, rhythm, cadence, and emotional tone of our voice. A calm, melodic, well-regulated voice communicates safety. Safety builds trust. Trust creates influence. Influence creates cooperation. Whether leading a team, resolving conflict, teaching a classroom, counseling a client, raising children, or navigating difficult conversations, our effectiveness often depends less on the words we choose and more on the physiological state from which those words emerge. The Running Man Human Stress Model teaches that influence begins with self-regulation. When we regulate ourselves first, our communication becomes clearer, our presence becomes more reassuring, and our ability to positively influence others increases dramatically. Leadership is not simply speaking louder. Authority is not intimidation. True influence begins with creating safety. Because before people hear your message... They experience your nervous system. Regulate yourself. Shape the environment. Create trust. Influence with presence. Take care. Walk well  Hey folks, let me know what you think about the Running Man Podcast. Let me know where you're from and how you are doing in your little part of the world! Support the show intro outro music for episodes 1 through 111 done by Jonathan Dominguez Rogue musician. He can be found on youtube at Lazyman2303.  New musical intro and outro music created by Ed Fernandez guitarist extraordinaire.  To get in contact with Ed please send me an email at runningmangetskillsproject@gmail.com and I will forward him the contact.  Donations are not expected but most certainly appreciated. Any funds will go toward further development of the podcast for equipment as we we grow the podcast. Many thanks in advance.  https://www.buzzsprout.com/2216464/support

    Before People Hear Your Words, They Feel Your Nervous System

  8. Jul 20

    You're Not Out of Alignment—You're Dysregulated

    Ep 156.  True Alignment Begins Before Action "Alignment" has become one of the most popular words in personal development, leadership, entrepreneurship, and self-improvement. It appears everywhere—from motivational videos to business coaching, productivity systems, and social media. Yet the more the word is used, the more its original meaning is often lost. True alignment is not simply positive thinking. It is not wishful manifestation. It is not repeating affirmations. Alignment begins with the condition of the nervous system. We live in an age of unlimited information. Never before has humanity had such immediate access to knowledge. Every day we consume books, podcasts, videos, articles, courses, and social media designed to help us improve our lives. Yet information alone rarely creates transformation. Modern culture has become remarkably efficient at acquiring information, while becoming less practiced at converting knowledge into lived experience. Ancient traditions understood this distinction long before neuroscience began describing it. Classical Chinese philosophy and martial traditions recognized the profound relationship between Xin (Heart-Mind) and Yi (Intent). Intent was never viewed as merely thinking positively. Intent emerged from an integrated internal state. When the body, mind, emotion, and attention were aligned, action became efficient, purposeful, and skillful. Modern neuroscience is beginning to describe the same principle. When stress overwhelms the nervous system, perception narrows. Attention fragments. Decision-making becomes reactive. Visualization weakens. Predictions become less accurate. The future becomes difficult to imagine with clarity because survival takes priority over creativity. In other words... When physiology becomes dysregulated, intention becomes clouded. Clear intention requires a regulated nervous system. This is why the Running Man Human Stress Model begins with physiology before psychology. A regulated body creates the conditions for clear thinking. Clear thinking strengthens intention. Purposeful intention guides effective action. Repeated skillful action becomes embodied wisdom. Information becomes experience. Experience becomes transformation. Transformation becomes identity. True alignment is therefore not something we discover. It is something we cultivate. It is the progressive integration of physiology, perception, intention, action, and character. The goal is not simply to know more. The goal is to become more. Train your nervous system. Clarify your intention. Align your actions. Become the person your highest intentions have always been pointing toward. Take care. Walk well. Hey folks, let me know what you think about the Running Man Podcast. Let me know where you're from and how you are doing in your little part of the world! Support the show intro outro music for episodes 1 through 111 done by Jonathan Dominguez Rogue musician. He can be found on youtube at Lazyman2303.  New musical intro and outro music created by Ed Fernandez guitarist extraordinaire.  To get in contact with Ed please send me an email at runningmangetskillsproject@gmail.com and I will forward him the contact.  Donations are not expected but most certainly appreciated. Any funds will go toward further development of the podcast for equipment as we we grow the podcast. Many thanks in advance.  https://www.buzzsprout.com/2216464/support

    You're Not Out of Alignment—You're Dysregulated
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Understanding Stress, Anxiety, and Decision-Making: Unveiling Your Paleo-Caveperson Wiring Explore the fascinating interplay of stress, anxiety, and pain on our ability to think, choose, and act in modern life through the lens of our paleo-caveperson wiring and survival programming. Discover why we sometimes exhibit socially inappropriate behaviors under stress and find it challenging to make sound decisions in tense situations. Gain insights from psychology, neuropsychology, physiology, sociology, biology, and social dynamics, explained in everyday language without overwhelming scientific jargon. Tell me what you would like to hear on the podcast and your feedback is appreciated: runningmangetskillsproject@gmail.com Book Link for the Running Man Resiliency in the Face of Fight or Flight on Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/Running-Man-Resiliency-Fight-Flight/dp/B0H6YGJ4WJ/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2BOI7ZY2912AF&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.PCsHx0Q_bb1rbtF4Vdy8-Q.KiSLfzdnqigm6wCU3kvtrKmnfGdICRvwM8WLVhfpx8Y&dib_tag=se&keywords=running+man+resiliency+in+the+face+of+fight+flight&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1783315890&sprefix=running+man+resil%2Caps%2C305&sr=8-1  rogue musician/creator located at lazyman 2303 on youtube.     Music intro and outro: Jonathan Dominguez  You can Support the running man self regulation skill project at:  https://www.buzzsprout.com/2216464/support

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  • Creator
    Armando Dominguez PhD Health Psychology, Educator, Martial Artist, Researcher
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    163
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    © 2026 Running Man Self Regulation Skills Project
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