Running Man Self Regulation Skills Project Armando Dominguez PhD Health Psychology, Educator, Martial Artist, Researcher

Time is an element of every human experience. How we experience fun and joy often goes hand in hand with time moving too quickly leaving us whishing we could do things again or wishing the fun would last forever. When we experience painful events we feel the dilation or even the dragging or "hanging time" that makes the uncomfortable and painful, excruciating and long. When we focus on ourselves time tends to expand in the experience, when we shift our attention to what we are doing outside o...

When experiencing stress, anxiety and what otherwise are determined to be negative experiences often people report how it seemed that time stopped or that the event would never end. On the side of familiar skills and trained responses time slows down, and stops. Time dilation appears to be reported in more generative healthy activities and are related to flow state. Our familiarity with expected and predicted stressors anxiety inducing social events to expecting to be surfing and shooting the...

Tradition is often associated with family get togethers and remembering. In the areas involving skill building often tradition is about conserving and preserving skills and understandings that are useful and may transcend generations if the skill and understanding is not a social trend or tied to something that has gone the way of obsolescence. In self regulation skills, the reason we self regulated may be deeply embedded and equate to not understanding why we may over react to things that wo...

At times we speak of attention as if it is an on/off response like a switch. Actually our attention is always on and when we attend to new, novel or survival valuable information i.e., dangerous, edible, mateable, fightable then we we attend due to the value of the stimulus that is occurring at that moment. When things present too quickly we are apt to misinterpret and mis-identify familiar people and things as we are now reacting at the survival level of f brain that precedes our higher soci...

Dishonesty is a skill that we can become conditioned to. This means the more we lie the easier it is and the more apt we are to do it when there is a survival level advantage to be gained. For the right price, we are willing to split the difference if it means I get a bigger piece of the pie. Money, and material things can be gained to benefit self and not physically harm another individual. This is a higher permutation of dishonesty, as long as it is business and not harm of an organism or i...

Our day to day mindset is a symptom of our patterns of behavior and is also a template of what our underlying thoughts are that drive us to do what we do. Creativity and fulfillment are things we seek but, the gravity and conceptual magnetism, our beliefs, expectations and predictions from the foundations of our life keep us in the same holding patterns. This can be frustrating. But, breaking free of the habituated mind is not impossible for does it have to be difficult. Envision the goal and...