Running Man Self Regulation Skills Project
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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Episodes
163 episodes
De-Escalation Begins With You: The Nervous System Skill Most People Miss
Ep 163. De-Escalation Begins With You: The Skill Most People ForgetWhen we hear the word de-escalation, we often imagine dangerous confrontations—an angry person, a volatile encounter, or a situation moving toward viol...
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....
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 chang...
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 ob...
When Survival Mode Becomes Your Personality: How to Return to Yourself
Ep 159. When Stress Changes Who You Are: How to Return to CenterStress is universal.Whether we live in a major city or a rural community, whether we are struggling financially or professionally successful, every human ...
The 3 Steps That Turn Stress Into Strength
Ep 158. The Three Steps That Transform Stress Into StrengthStress 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 ...
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 ben...
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...
Free Your Mind: How Stress Hides Your Authentic Self
Ep 155. Free Your Mind. Return to Yourself.Every human being longs to live as their authentic self.From childhood until the end of life, we seek more than achievement or success—we seek acceptance, belonging, meaning, and the free...
The Running Man Human Stress Model Is Here: A New Way to Master Stress
Ep 154. The Running Man Human Stress Model Is Finally a BookAfter three years of teaching, refining, and developing the ideas behind the Running Man Self Regulation Skills Project, the Running Man Human Stress Model is now available as a...
What If It's Not Your Personality? The Hidden Effects of Chronic Stress
Ep 153. The environments we live in shape us more deeply than most of us realize.From childhood through adulthood, every experience influences how our nervous system learns to respond to the world. We learn through direct experience, obs...
The Hidden Window That Controls Your Stress Response
Ep 152. Every human being responds to life through patterns.Whether we experience stress, joy, fear, surprise, excitement, or overwhelm, our reactions are shaped by neurological programs that have been built through biology, life experie...
Power, Not Force: How Calm People Resolve Conflict Faster
Ep 151. Conflict, disagreement, resistance, and pushback are natural parts of everyday life.Whether at work, at home, in relationships, or in public interactions, we regularly encounter situations where our goals, beliefs, needs, or expe...
Pain Is Inevitable. Suffering Is Not: The Skill That Changes Everything
Ep 150. Suffering is often described as an unavoidable part of the human experience. Pain, loss, disappointment, uncertainty, and adversity are realities that every person encounters throughout life. Yet while pain may be inevitable, suffering ...
Your Brain Changes Under Threat: The Hidden Psychology of Conflict
Ep 149. Resistance and conflict do not always begin in the external world.Often, the greatest conflict occurs within us—through the interaction between external stressors and our internal emotional landscape. Fear, anxiety, perceived thr...
The Unknown Changes You: Why Growth Requires Courage”
Ep 148. Throughout life, we undertake journeys that challenge who we are and force us to grow beyond the limits of our current identity. Every meaningful endeavor—whether physical, emotional, intellectual, or spiritual—demands that we step into...
Think Clearly Under Pressure: The Skill Most People Never Train
Ep 147. Everyday stress—and even minor challenges—can activate the body’s fight-or-flight response.The stressor does not have to be life-threatening for the nervous system to react as if it is. A deadline, a difficult conversation...
Recovery Is a Skill: Why Rest Alone Won’t Fix Chronic Stress
Ep 146. Recovery is one of the most important—and most neglected—skills in modern life.We live in a world of continuous, unrelenting stress. Unlike earlier human survival patterns, where fight-or-flight events were often acute and tempor...
The Illusion of Knowing: Why Stress Makes You Think You’re Right
Ep 145. When we experience stress—whether from physical danger or social judgment—our sense of safety becomes compromised. The body responds immediately. Heart rate rises. Breathing shifts. Attention narrows. The nervous system moves int...
You React Before You Realize It: The Science of Split-Second Survival
Ep 144. Nature is one of the most powerful teachers of human behavior. From the earliest stages of life, we learn one of the most important survival skills: recognizing boundaries. What is safe to approach? What signals danger? What requ...
The Illusion of Certainty: Why You’re More Wrong Under Stress
Ep 143. Certainty is one of the most appealing ideas in human psychology. It promises clarity, predictability, control, and confidence in outcomes. We are drawn to certainty because it feels safe—it reduces ambiguity and gives us the illu...
Why Time Slows Down Under Stress And How to Control It
Ep 142. Under stress, the perception of time can shift dramatically. In moments of excitement or positive stress, time can feel fast, fluid, and fleeting. But in moments of fear, uncertainty, or shock, time can appear to slow down—or eve...
Is It Your Personality… or Just Stress? The Truth About Who You Are
Ep 141. Personality is often treated as something fixed—an identity we carry and a label others use to define us in social life. In psychology, personality is commonly understood as the product of environment, upbringing, conditioning, and repe...
Confidence Under Pressure: The Skill Most People Never Train
Ep 140. In a stressful life, confidence can feel like a fragile commodity. When stress, fear, and anxiety become frequent visitors in our personal world, our sense of certainty and control can disappear quickly. The human nervous system is cons...
Time Poverty vs Flow State: Mastering Your Experience of Time
Ep 139. Time is one of the most powerful forces shaping human experience. Yet most people feel as though they never have enough of it. Deadlines, responsibilities, emergencies, and perceived threats create a psychological compression of time. I...
