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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


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  • 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
  • The Placebo Effect Is Real: How Belief Changes the Brain and Body

    The Placebo Effect Is Real: How Belief Changes the Brain and Body
    Sep 22 2026
    Ep 165. The Placebo Effect: How Belief Can Change What the Body ExperiencesWhat if the placebo effect isn't evidence that nothing happened?What if it is evidence that something happened without the mechanism we expected?For generations, placebo has sometimes been casually described as the fake treatment used to determine whether a medication really works.But the placebo response itself is not necessarily fake.Modern research has demonstrated that expectations, previous experience, conditioning, social context, and learning can influence how we experience symptoms—particularly pain—and can engage measurable neurobiological processes. That raises a fascinating question for the Running Man Human Stress Model:If expectation can influence how the nervous system experiences treatment, what role might our expectations and interpretations play in how we experience everyday stress?We don't simply encounter the world.We continually interpret it.Safe or dangerous.Possible or impossible.Friend or foe.Hopeful or hopeless.Temporary or permanent.Those interpretations can influence what happens next.This does not mean that illness, injury, pain, or adversity can simply be wished away.Nor does placebo mean that medical treatment is unnecessary.Instead, placebo research reveals something subtler and perhaps more useful:What we expect can become part of what we experience.Research on placebo analgesia has found that expectations can influence pain through both pain-related and broader affective and learning systems in the brain. Conditioning and previous experience can also contribute, sometimes beyond verbal suggestion alone. And there is another side to this phenomenon.The nocebo effect describes circumstances in which negative expectations and contextual information can contribute to worse symptom experiences. Placebo and nocebo research therefore gives us a window into something Running Man repeatedly examines:Interpretation can influence state.And state influences what comes next.Our attention.Our physiology.Our behavior.Our expectations.Our willingness to act.Our perception of possibility.This makes imagination more interesting than simple fantasy.Human beings can mentally represent events that have not yet occurred. We anticipate conversations. Rehearse threats. Imagine failure. Remember pain. Visualize success. Prepare ourselves for events that exist, at that moment, only within the mind.Sometimes those simulations prepare us adaptively.Sometimes they repeatedly activate stress around events that never occur.The skill is not simply positive thinking.It is learning to recognize the relationship between:Expectation → Interpretation → State → Experience → BehaviorAnd then becoming more deliberate about what we repeatedly rehearse.Placebo research even contains a social dimension. Observation and interpersonal interactions can contribute to placebo and nocebo responses, suggesting that expectations are shaped not only privately but through the people and environments around us. That fits remarkably well with the Running Man principle:State → Presence → Influence → Outcome.Our minds and bodies do not exist independently of context.We learn from experience.We learn from other people.We anticipate.We interpret.And our nervous systems respond.So perhaps the deeper lesson of placebo isn't:“It's all in your head.”Perhaps it is:What happens in the mind can become part of what happens in the body.The challenge is learning to work with that capacity responsibly—without magical thinking, without denying genuine illness, and without confusing the influence of expectation with complete control over biology.The mind is powerful.Expectation matters.Meaning matters.And learning how those forces influence our experience may give us another tool for adapting more skillfully to stressful lives and changing environments.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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    31 min
  • The 3 Rs of Stress: Recognize, Regulate, Recover

    The 3 Rs of Stress: Recognize, Regulate, Recover
    Sep 14 2026
    Ep 164. The 3 Rs of Stress: Recognize. Regulate. Recover.Have you ever been under intense stress and thought:"That wasn't me."Maybe you said something completely out of character.Reacted more strongly than you expected.Became angry, frightened, defensive, withdrawn, or overwhelmed.And when the moment passed, you were left wondering:"Where did that come from?"Stress, threat, surprise, fear, and pain can dramatically change our physiological state. As activation increases, attention, perception, emotion, and behavior can change with it.Sometimes the person who emerges under intense pressure feels unfamiliar even to us.And afterward can come another painful cascade:Shame.Guilt.Blame.Confusion.Regret.We may begin judging ourselves by behavior that occurred during an extraordinary physiological state.But there is an important distinction:A stress state can influence your behavior without defining your identity.Current nervous-system discussions increasingly explore this relationship between survival states, behavior, and identity, including the experience of not feeling like oneself during prolonged or intense stress. The Running Man Human Stress Model offers a simple framework for navigating these moments.I call it:The Three Rs1. RECOGNIZE the StateThe first skill is recognition.What is happening inside me?Has my breathing changed?Has my heart rate increased?Am I physically bracing?Has my attention narrowed?Do I suddenly feel urgency?Am I thinking in absolutes?Am I preparing to fight, flee, freeze, submit, or otherwise protect myself?Recognition creates awareness of something enormously important:My state has changed.And recognizing the state gives us a better opportunity to work with it before automatically identifying with everything it produces.2. REGULATE the PhysiologyOnce activation is recognized, we work with the body.This is where the Running Man model remains deliberately physiology first, psychology second.Rather than immediately trying to reason our way out of an activated survival response, we begin by influencing the physiological conditions from which reasoning must operate.Breathing.Posture.Grounding.Visual awareness.Muscular tension.Orientation to the environment.The objective is not to eliminate emotion.It is to recover enough regulation to increase access to perception, judgment, and choice.That matters because nervous-system regulation is increasingly being discussed not as permanent calm, but as greater flexibility and capacity to move through changing states. 3. RECOVER the SelfThis may be the most important—and most overlooked—step.After significant stress, people sometimes confuse:"How I behaved while highly activated"with"Who I am."Those are not necessarily the same thing.Recovering the self means allowing the survival response to recede sufficiently that we can again access the broader person underneath it.Our values.Perspective.Judgment.Compassion.Responsibility.Relationships.Sense of humor.Wisdom.Choice.And importantly, recovering the self does not mean avoiding accountability.Quite the opposite.Understanding the physiological conditions that influenced our behavior can help us examine what happened without collapsing into shame or defensiveness.We can say:That behavior occurred.I am responsible for what I do.And I can learn what state contributed to it so I can become more skillful next time.That is a far more useful foundation for lasting change than either self-condemnation or denial.Recognize. Regulate. Recover.Three simple words.But with practice, they can become a map for navigating difficult moments.Recognize what state you are in.Regulate the physiological reaction.Recover access to the person you want making the next decision.Because survival responses are part of you.But they are not necessarily the entirety of you.Learn the state.Train the response.Recover yourself.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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    31 min
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