Disregulation is not always a bad thing. And in fact, in some situations or circumstances,

we might seek it out. We'll pay money to be dysregulated on purpose. I disregulate those kids at

camp. We pay to go see a horror movie and get disregulated. And now I'm starting asking myself,

where else do we actively want to be disregulated on purpose?

Hey, welcome back to the Personality Hacker podcast.

My name is Joel Mark Witt. And I'm Antonio Dodge. So I've got a question for you, Antonio. Yes, Joel. That I'd like to unpack on this episode. We have been talking about dysregulation and self-regulation a lot. That's true. And we're going to continue to talk about this. Also true. We were in a conversation recently, and I was like, wait a minute, we assume,

I think we assume as humans that the word dysregulation has negative connotation to it. Immediately.

Like we say dysregulation, that's bad and that's not good. And self-regulation or being regulated

is good. We're talking about using the personality map of ourselves to be able to find the four primary areas or channels that we're disregulated on, of sensing, feeling, thinking, or intuition. And we think that personality is going to give us a map to find where this is in our personhood and be able to address it. So, for example, if I'm cognitively disregulated, I might show it emotionally, but the work might be to fix the cognition that's

dysregulated to feel better. Like, I'll keep the emotions like crazy until I feel better

cognitively. Well, to make a one-to-one correlation with the sensing, the feeling, the thinking,

and the intuition, we're mapping the thinking, and the intuition.

We're mapping those to semat.

Sensing is related to somatic regulation.

Feeling is related to emotional regulation.

That's right.

Thinking is related to cognitive regulation,

and intuition is related to what we're calling existential regulation.

That's right.

So now I'm remembering my younger years.

I grew up at a summer camp and I was just up at my parents' camp recently and I was kind of around the energy of it, this high octane kind of youthful energy.

A lot of teenagers, obviously it's a teen camp.

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