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Running Man Self Regulation Skills Project

Running Man Self Regulation Skills Project

Von: 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


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Music intro and outro: Jonathan Dominguez


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  • Your Nervous System Is Sounding the Alarm—But Is There Really Danger?

    Your Nervous System Is Sounding the Alarm—But Is There Really Danger?
    Oct 11 2026
    Ep 168. Why Stress Makes Everything Feel Urgent (And How to Take Back Control)Have you ever experienced a sudden rush of anxiety, fear, or stress that made everything around you feel immediately threatening?Your heart begins racing.Your breathing changes.Your muscles tighten.Your thoughts accelerate.And suddenly, something that might ordinarily seem manageable feels urgent, personal, overwhelming, or even dangerous.Your nervous system has sounded an alarm. But does the situation actually require the response your body is preparing you to make?Within the Running Man Human Stress Model, understanding this distinction is one of the most important skills we can develop.When the fight-or-flight response activates, the body begins mobilizing resources to meet a perceived challenge or threat.This is an adaptive survival response.But physiological activation can also change how we experience the world.Our attention may narrow.Uncertainty may feel threatening.Ordinary disagreements may become intensely personal.Our sense of urgency may increase.And the immediate need to do something can begin to overshadow our ability to consider what would be most useful.The intensity of a feeling does not necessarily establish the accuracy of our interpretation.These experiences can occur almost anywhere.At work, during a difficult conversation.At home, during conflict with someone we love.In public, when an unexpected event catches us by surprise.Or privately, when our own thoughts and expectations activate a stress response even though no immediate external danger is present.The experience can be uncomfortable and disconcerting, particularly when it arrives suddenly.And sometimes our greatest difficulty is not the initial activation.It is what we do while activated.We may speak harshly.Make unnecessary decisions.Withdraw from relationships.Misinterpret another person's intentions.Or act with an urgency that the situation did not require.Later, when our physiological state begins to settle, we may look back with regret, remorse, or confusion.How could something that seemed so urgent a few moments ago look so different now?The answer may lie partly in the relationship between physiology and perception.The Running Man Human Stress Model offers a practical approach through the Three Rs of Stress:RECOGNIZE the state.Notice the early signs of activation: changes in breathing, heart rate, muscular tension, attention, emotional intensity, and perceived urgency.REGULATE the physiology.Use familiar, practiced self-regulation skills to work with your breathing, posture, muscular tension, grounding, and environmental awareness.The objective is not to force the body into calm or deny genuine danger. It is to support a more adaptive physiological state while remaining appropriately responsive to circumstances.RECOVER the self.As activation decreases, recover access to broader perspective, personal values, judgment, flexibility, and deliberate choice.This is where the Action Gate becomes particularly important.Between activation and action, there may be an opportunity to recognize that what feels urgent does not necessarily require an immediate reaction.And sometimes that opportunity changes everything downstream.We also need to recognize the importance of other people.A calm, trusted, and appropriately responsive person may help us regulate during distress.This is called co-regulation.Their voice, posture, presence, pacing, and willingness to remain grounded can provide supportive social cues while we recover our own regulatory capacity.This does not mean another person can simply switch off our stress response.It means that human connection can sometimes help create conditions in which regulation becomes more accessible.And there is a longer-term opportunity.Physical fitness, adequate recovery, and practiced self-regulation can support our capacity to adapt to stress.Heart rate variability, or HRV, provides one window into autonomic regulation, although it is not a simple measure of how calm, healthy, or resilient a person is.The larger objective is physiological flexibility.The ability to activate when necessary.Regulate when possible.And recover when the challenge has passed.Because an uncomfortable stress response does not have to determine our next decision.Recognize the alarm.Regulate the state.Recover your perspective.Preserve the choice.The body may be sounding an alarm, but we can learn to become more skillful at determining what that alarm requires of us.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 showintro 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 ...
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    34 Min.
  • Your Body Survived the Stress—But Did It Come Back?

    Your Body Survived the Stress—But Did It Come Back?
    Oct 5 2026
    Ep 167. Return to Baseline: Why Recovery From Stress Is a SkillLife sometimes requires us to rise.A sudden problem.A family crisis.Financial pressure.Conflict.Pain.A deadline.An unexpected threat.Or an event serious enough that hesitation could carry real consequences.In those moments, the human stress response is not necessarily our enemy.Our physiology mobilizes resources to help us meet increased demands. Attention changes. Energy becomes available. The body prepares for action.Sometimes we need that activation.But there is another part of the stress response that receives far less attention:Coming back.After the challenge has passed, can we return toward the state we recognize as ourselves?Can the body release unnecessary tension?Can vigilance decrease?Can attention broaden?Can we rest?Can we think creatively again?Can we reconnect with other people?Can we experience ease without continuing to search for the next threat?This is the importance of recovery.Human beings continually regulate internal conditions while adapting to changing environments. Homeostasis describes the body's regulation around viable physiological ranges, while the closely related concept of allostasis describes adaptation through change.The problem arises when adaptation becomes chronically expensive.If stressful demands are frequent, prolonged, or repeatedly anticipated, the systems designed to mobilize us can remain heavily recruited. Over time, that repeated physiological burden can contribute to what researchers describe as allostatic load.Research also demonstrates an important relationship between psychological stress and heart rate variability, or HRV, an indicator influenced by autonomic regulation.But HRV should not be reduced to a simple score where “high is always good” and “low is always bad.”The larger principle is flexibility.A healthy adaptive system needs range.The capacity to mobilize.The capacity to regulate.And the capacity to recover.This is where the Running Man Human Stress Model becomes practical.The goal is not to remain permanently relaxed.That would not be adaptive.The goal is to become increasingly skillful at moving through states appropriate to the circumstances—and returning toward baseline when the circumstances no longer require heightened activation.Rise when necessary.Respond when necessary.Recover when possible.And through practice, become increasingly familiar with the pathway home.Because chronic stress can create another problem:Activation itself can begin to feel normal.Tension feels normal.Urgency feels normal.Scanning feels normal.Irritability feels normal.Being unable to sit quietly feels normal.The absence of stress can even begin to feel unfamiliar.This is why returning to baseline may require practice.Recovery can become something we train.We learn to recognize activation.We regulate what is available to regulate.We allow unnecessary activation to diminish.We recover access to broader attention, creativity, flexibility, connection, and rest.And through repetition, we become increasingly familiar with ourselves outside the stress state.This connects directly with the Three Rs of Stress:RECOGNIZE the state.REGULATE the physiology.RECOVER the self.Recovery is not weakness.Rest is not failure.And returning to baseline does not make us less capable of responding to the next challenge.Recovery is part of readiness.A nervous system that can rise but cannot effectively come down has lost part of its adaptive range.The objective is not perpetual calm.It is flexibility.The ability to meet the world when necessary—and return home to ourselves when the moment has passed.That return supports quality of life.It supports relationships.It supports creativity.It supports clearer thinking.And it gives us an opportunity to encounter tomorrow's challenges without unnecessarily carrying all of yesterday's activation into them.Like every Running Man skill, this becomes more available through familiarity.Practice the return.Become familiar with ease.Recover your range.Return to yourself.Take care, return toward center, 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 showintro 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
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    21 Min.
  • When Everything Feels Out of Control: Regulate Yourself, Protect Your Agency

    When Everything Feels Out of Control: Regulate Yourself, Protect Your Agency
    Sep 27 2026
    Ep 166. The Illusion of Control: What You Can Actually Control When Life Gets HardControl is something we negotiate every day.We seek control over our schedules, careers, relationships, environments, health, finances, decisions—and sometimes other people.Much of that is necessary.Building a meaningful life requires curation, stewardship, boundaries, change, and sometimes elimination. We continually decide what belongs in our lives, what needs our attention, what needs to change, and what needs to be released.But something changes when stress rises.When circumstances become uncertain, chaotic, emotionally charged, or dangerous, our sense of control can begin to deteriorate.And sometimes the harder we try to regain control, the more we discover an uncomfortable reality:Not everything is ours to control.Current discussions about control and stress repeatedly make this distinction. Attempts to control uncontrollable circumstances can themselves become a source of stress, while directing attention toward available choices and influence can be more useful. Insights HubBut the Running Man Human Stress Model adds another question:What happens to the person trying to exert control when that person becomes physiologically dysregulated?Because before we attempt to control the environment, influence another person, solve the problem, or determine an outcome, there is another variable present:Our state.Under significant stress, our physiology can change.Our attention may narrow.Urgency may increase.Our perception of available options may shrink.We may become increasingly reactive.And the desire for control can itself become part of the stress response.This creates an important distinction between:CONTROL OF THE WORLDandREGULATION OF THE SELF WITHIN THE WORLD.Self-regulation does not give us control over everything that happens.It does something potentially more useful.It helps us preserve greater access to awareness, perception, choice, adaptability, and personal agency while events are unfolding.That means the question changes.Instead of:“How do I control this?”we can ask:“What is actually available for me to influence right now?”My breathing?My posture?My attention?My words?My next action?Whether I escalate or de-escalate?Whether I remain or leave?Whether I react immediately or recognize the Action Gate and create enough space for another option?This is where self-regulation becomes practical control.Not control over reality.Stewardship over our participation in reality.That distinction becomes increasingly important as the stakes rise.At home, it may preserve a conversation.At work, it may improve a difficult decision.In relationships, it may prevent unnecessary escalation.In performance, it may preserve execution under pressure.And in a genuinely dangerous situation, preserving awareness, adaptability, and access to trained responses may become especially consequential.This gives us a useful hierarchy:CONTROL what is genuinely yours to control.INFLUENCE what you can responsibly influence.ADAPT to what you cannot control.REGULATE yourself throughout all three.Self-regulation is therefore not about controlling every thought, emotion, or physiological reaction.It is about developing greater capacity to work with your state so that stress does not unnecessarily take possession of your choices.Because the greatest illusion of control may be believing that safety comes from controlling everything around us.Sometimes greater agency comes from something very different:Knowing what is yours to manage—and remaining sufficiently regulated to manage it when it counts.You cannot control every event.You cannot control every person.You cannot guarantee every outcome.But you can train your capacity to meet uncertainty with greater awareness, adaptability, and choice.Regulate the state.Preserve the choice.Protect your agency.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 showintro 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
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    34 Min.
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