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Running Man Self Regulation Skills Project

Running Man Self Regulation Skills Project

By: 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.


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Music intro and outro: Jonathan Dominguez


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Episodes
  • 10 Essential Self-Regulation Skills to Stay Calm Under Pressure

    10 Essential Self-Regulation Skills to Stay Calm Under Pressure
    25 Oct 2026
    Ep 170. 10 Essential Self-Regulation Skills to Stay Calm Under PressureWhat happens when life suddenly demands more from you than you expected?You are driving home when a tire goes flat.A difficult conversation unexpectedly becomes confrontational.A child or family member needs immediate assistance.An ordinary day at work becomes a series of urgent problems.Or you find yourself in a situation where safety, uncertainty, and rapidly changing circumstances require your attention.In these moments, the human stress response may activate before we have fully understood what is happening.Our heart rate may increase.Our breathing may change.Our muscles prepare for action.Our attention may narrow.And we may experience a compelling sense that something must be done immediately.But feeling an urgent need to act does not always mean that immediate action is the most useful response.Sometimes action is necessary for safety.At other times, the stress response itself may intensify our sense of urgency, making a difficult situation feel more threatening or overwhelming than it actually is.This is where self-regulation becomes an important life skill.Within the Running Man Human Stress Model, self-regulation is not simply an effort to remain calm.It is the development of practical, repeatable skills that help us recognize our physiological state, respond to changing circumstances, and preserve greater access to awareness, flexibility, judgment, and choice.In this episode, we explore 10 essential elements of self-regulation and their role in helping us meet the everyday challenges of life.From work and family responsibilities to unexpected emergencies and difficult interpersonal encounters, the ability to recognize stress and work with our physiology can influence how we experience and respond to demanding situations.We examine the importance of recognizing environmental stress signals, identifying the body's early signs of activation, and understanding how physiological arousal can influence attention, perception, and decision-making.We also consider how breathing, posture, grounding, situational awareness, and repeated practice can help develop more reliable self-regulation skills.One of the central ideas of the Running Man Human Stress Model is that physiological state influences the possibilities available to us.When our stress response becomes intense, the world may appear more threatening, time may feel compressed, and our choices may seem increasingly limited.Recognizing this relationship creates an opportunity to respond more deliberately.This connects with the Action Gate, the threshold at which regulation may help us preserve access to alternatives before activation becomes behavior.The objective is not to eliminate the fight-or-flight response.It is not to deny genuine danger.And it is certainly not to guarantee that every difficult situation will have a favorable outcome.The objective is to become increasingly skillful at recognizing what is happening within us while remaining appropriately responsive to what is happening around us.Through the Three Rs of Stress — Recognize, Regulate, Recover — we can develop a practical approach to understanding and working with our stress response.Recognize the circumstances and the signals of activation.Regulate what is available to regulate while maintaining awareness of safety and changing conditions.Recover access to perspective, flexibility, and the capacity to respond in ways that better reflect our intentions and values.These skills are not developed simply by knowing about them.They become more accessible through familiarity, repetition, and practice.And that is the larger purpose of the Running Man Human Stress Model: helping us develop skills that can serve us in the moments when life becomes demanding, uncertain, or unexpectedly difficult.The goal is not to control every circumstance. It is to become more capable of regulating the person we bring into those circumstances.Take care, practice your skills, 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#SelfRegulation #StressManagement #NervousSystemRegulation #CalmUnderPressure #RunningManHumanStressModel
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    29 min
  • Why Everything Feels Like Too Much: The Science of Overwhelm

    Why Everything Feels Like Too Much: The Science of Overwhelm
    18 Oct 2026
    Ep 169. Why Everything Feels Like Too Much: The Science of OverwhelmHave you ever reached a point in your day when even the smallest additional demand feels like too much?Another responsibility.Another conversation.Another unexpected problem.Another decision.Another interruption.And suddenly, something that ordinarily would not bother you feels overwhelming.You may become impatient, distracted, frustrated, confused, or unusually reactive.Your heart rate may increase.Your breathing may change.Your thoughts may become less organized.You may experience a sense of pressure or urgency without being able to identify one particular event responsible for how you feel.What if these experiences are not simply signs of poor time management, but signals that your available capacity is being exceeded?Within the Running Man Human Stress Model, understanding our personal threshold for overwhelm is an important part of developing self-regulation.Modern life places continuous demands on our attention, energy, physical capacity, and ability to adapt.We manage work.Relationships.Family responsibilities.Financial obligations.Physical health.Social interactions.And the countless decisions that fill an ordinary day.Each demand may seem manageable on its own.But demands accumulate.And our available resources are not unlimited.Overwhelm is more than having too much to think aboutWe often describe overwhelm as cognitive overload.Too much information.Too many decisions.Too many responsibilities.But overwhelm can also involve the body.Physical pain demands attention.Insufficient sleep can affect emotional regulation and concentration.Ongoing illness or injury may require additional energy and adaptation.Noise, crowded environments, constant interruptions, uncomfortable sensations, and competing social demands can all contribute to the experience of overload.Our nervous system must respond to more than our conscious thoughts.It continually processes information from our bodies and the environments in which we live.And when demands become excessive relative to our available resources, our ability to respond flexibly may diminish.We may become less patient.Less attentive.Less creative.More reactive.And increasingly uncomfortable.This is where the concept of a personal stress threshold becomes useful.Recognizing your thresholdThe threshold of overwhelm is not necessarily one dramatic moment.Sometimes it develops gradually.A difficult night of sleep.Persistent discomfort.A demanding morning.An unexpected obligation.Several difficult conversations.And eventually, one more seemingly minor event becomes the moment when everything feels like too much.But that final event may not be the whole problem.It may simply be the demand that arrived when our available capacity was already heavily committed.This distinction matters.Because without recognizing the accumulated demands, we may mistake our reaction to the final event for the entire cause of our distress.We may blame ourselves.Blame someone else.Or make decisions while experiencing a state of heightened physiological activation.The Running Man Human Stress Model offers another approach.Recognize the state.Notice the early signs of overload: impatience, muscular tension, narrowed attention, changes in breathing, increased urgency, indecision, and reduced tolerance for additional demands.Regulate the physiology.Use familiar skills involving breathing, posture, grounding, muscular relaxation, and environmental awareness to work with the stress response.Recover the self.Where possible, reduce unnecessary demands, create opportunities for rest, recover attentional flexibility, and reconnect with the perspective and choices that may become less accessible under significant stress.These are the Three Rs of Stress: Recognize, Regulate, Recover.And they become particularly useful when practiced before overwhelm reaches its most intense expression.Your capacity changes from day to dayAn important part of self-regulation is understanding that our available capacity is not identical every day.What feels manageable after restorative sleep may feel exhausting after several difficult nights.A task that seems simple when we are physically comfortable may require considerably more effort when we are experiencing pain.An interaction that feels ordinary when we are rested may feel intensely personal when we are already overloaded.The demand may be the same. Our available capacity may not be.Recognizing this is not an invitation to withdraw from life.It is an invitation to participate more skillfully.To recognize the signals.To respect our limits without assuming those limits are permanent.To practice recovery.To make more deliberate decisions about where we invest our finite attention and energy.And to understand that adaptability includes knowing when additional demands are becoming counterproductive.The objective is not to eliminate every stressful circumstance.Nor is it to remain permanently ...
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    30 min
  • Your Nervous System Is Sounding the Alarm—But Is There Really Danger?

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