When we ask the outside world to regulate us in our own behalf, we're expecting other people to

physically calm us down when we're nervous. That's the number one way that we outsource it to

others. When we experience something that's physically uncomfortable to us, like our bodies don't

feel good or we don't like something that's going on physically, it's very easy for us to look to the outside world

to be the source of the problem. That would be an example of unhealthy co-regulation. We're looking

to the outside world to solve it for us.

Hi, welcome back to the Personality Hacker podcast. My name is Joel Mark Witt. And I'm Antonio Dodge.

Today we're going to continue our series here about self-regulation.

We introduced the concept on the last episode.

And today we're going to talk about your physiology, your physical body regulating the nervous system in a physical way.

And we're going to continue on this series and talk about emotional, cognitive, and even

intuitive or existential regulation.

But let's just catch everybody up.

Let's do the, what do they highlight real or last, on the last episode.

On the last episode.

Let's get everybody caught up so we can jump into today's conversation, Antonio.

All right.

So the last episode, we discussed what we meant by self-regulation, which is basically

the ability to consciously manage one's inner state in multiple channels.

We discussed how there's four primary channels of self-regulation, which are you just

mentioned, I think, did you just mention them?

Yes, I did.

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