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Running Man Self Regulation and Self Improvement Project Podcast
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Running Man Self Regulation and Self Improvement Project Podcast

Armando Dominguez PhD Health Psychology, Educator, Martial Artist, Researcher

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A discussion of what happens to me under stress, anxiety and pain and how our ability to think, choose and act under stress of a modern life with a paleo-caveperson wiring and survival programming. Do you want to understand why you do things that you do that are socially inappropriate or negative when we are under stress? Why do I find it difficult to make good decisions under stress? Why is it that I can see what I want to say but I cannot articulate what I want to say in a tense or stressf ...
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Sean & Dave talk about factors that effect people becoming the best version of themselves. We all have the ability to be the best that we can be, but do you have the desire? Maybe you don't know where to begin, or are prone to giving up too easily. We've all been there. Let's simplify and improve our lives, one episode at a time.
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The Midlife Improvement Project is a podcast for women in midlife who are feeling like they need a change....like something is just not quite right. They are itchy for the next best version of themselves. They are looking for a community of likeminded women that are facing the challenges and adventures of midlife in a totally different way than their Moms did. They are looking for strategies to manage their minds as they shed societally imposed expectations that they have conformed to for mo ...
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Change is the common focus in our lives. Often on social media and in our day to day communication we discuss and complain of how things change and we hearken to how things used to be and how things will never be the same again. We in our fleeting perspective of miss the constants in pursuit of those things that change. Constants are the things we …
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Good morning friends, some deeper thoughts and context around this topic today. I remember talking about it when I first started this podcast and it certainly won't be the last time I talk about it. As we progress in life and gather more experience, we need to keep checking in on what we think is enough. It's usually less than we think... Write to …
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Good morning wonderful humans, today I explore the idea of agency - living life on your terms. I question why we maybe get in our own way and encourage you to consider more so the opportunity you have to live the way you want to. Write to me with your thoughts :) Best, Lawrence ⁠Sunday Thoughts Newsletter⁠⁠⁠ New Free Ebook - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Your Good Life!…
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The principle of change as a constant in life as it is recognized in mathematics is a wise and strategic application of principle that helps to limit the impact that dynamic social change has on us as individuals. The application of the principles of "Endless Variation Never Surprised" and "Constants never surprise" give us a guiding perspective on…
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Good morning friends, a small note this morning about who you are, not what you do. We put ourselves through mental warfare when we think about purpose and passion, it's time to reframe that more positively. Email me with your thoughts on this one :) Best, Lawrence ⁠⁠Sunday Thoughts Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠ New Free Ebook - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Your Good Life!…
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Hello wonderful humans, today I dig deep (trying to find the rich soil) around purpose - let me know what you think on this one. I found my mind wandering across so many areas so I would love to hear your in-depth thoughts about purpose. What's your story with purpose? Best, Lawrence
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Alignment with Power is aligning with a principle of power and such as love, compassion, and altruistic acceptance of others and in service and benefit to others in a larger sense like Ghandi, Mother Theresa, Martin Luther King and numerous historical beings that have also walked our Earth in service. By their alignment they created change and infl…
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Self knowledge is invariably one of the most useful skills when dealing with and managing physical stress and perilous environment. The skills that support self knowledge is knowledge of "enemy", opponent, challenge or physical environment. Foreknowledge of the intra-personal and the interpersonal on the individual level is key to greater more reli…
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Happy Monday everyone, today is a doozy about how we should live. Really getting into the layers of what we perhaps take for granted and the things only we should be looking to gain. Let me know what you think by writing to me :) Best, Lawrence Sunday Thoughts Newsletter⁠⁠ New Free Ebook - ⁠⁠⁠⁠Your Good Life!…
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How often do we feel like our life has direction or lacks direction? The realization is that we are moving either way toward a perceived and conceived goal or end. A journey, a quest undertaken with the end in mind, even if don't have the skillset or the the map. Our ego is build and solidified by what we gather in our experience and aspects of ide…
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Morning! Today I'm thinking all about the idea of a template for life. We follow the norms blindly yet does it make us happy? Or are there other ways we can improve the quality of how we live each day, week, month or year. Let me know your thoughts by writing to me :) Best, Lawrence Sunday Thoughts Newsletter⁠ New Free Ebook - ⁠⁠⁠Your Good Life!…
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Hello friends, Today is all about the idea of rest. When is it best? When is too much? What's the point of rest? I explore all of this and the idea of how to combat restlessness when we feel it too! I hope you enjoy and write to me with any thoughts you have on it. Best, Lawrence Sunday Thoughts Newsletter New Free Ebook - ⁠⁠Your Good Life!…
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When we see patterns where there aren't any. Where belief is swayed by social pressure, we have the potential to develop, conjunction fallacy. Believing things to be based on false information and at times social group pressure. Hindsight is always 20/20. But, what happens when we have feelings that things were correct? This is an example of an adv…
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Republishing this on the 4th anniversary. The most important episode so far and potentially ever. Over the past few days, we reached the first anniversary of our good friend Tom passing away. And to celebrate how amazing he was, I've put together this wee episode. I've put together 3 messages that I want you to be more aware of from where Tom has i…
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Hello friends, today is a big one all around our social expectations. Have you ever felt you've been living up to the expectations of what life says you should? If so, give this a wee listen and let me know how it resonates with you. Best, Lawrence Sunday Thoughts Newsletter - https://sunny-painter-2539.ck.page New Free Ebook - ⁠Your Good Life!…
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When we were hunting in our primitive times there was no guarantee of success and payoff from finding and or successfully hunting food. The times that we succeeded, there was a reward pathway, Dopamine response signaling pleasure and ensuring motivation to repeat that behavior again. That is a powerful experience. In today's modern day, we have fou…
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When we remember we are recalling a segment of our past in our life's timeline. Have you ever thought a certain way when you are stressed that you interpreted things negatively? Well, then you are human. What is changeable is our reactivity by training physical resilience and recognizing our proclivity to seek negatives to protect our future outcom…
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In Episode 2.40, I’m chatting with Lara Frendjian, a holistic nutritionist who works with women over 40 to regain their energy, body confidence and health!Από τον Dr. Peggy Malone
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Hello wonderful humans, it's time to acknowledge the elephant in the room: The hidden metrics. We do not spend enough time in our life checking in on the invisible things that matter: Inner Peace, Self Love, Peace of Mind. These things that nobody can win nor prove. Yet they are so important to how we live and in order to live a life of fulfilment …
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When we recall we run the risk of reactivity to the nature of the memory. Is it euphoric and pleasant? Is is dysphoric and painful? These are the elements that often determine how close we hold our idea of self or ego in regards to the recollection. When we hold beliefs that have been assumed or accepted often there is a social component where we g…
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The Late Psychologist and author Dr. Glen J. Morris wrote that "We follow our own Placebos". This is a daily walk in that much of what we do and how we do it is based on the beliefs we hold that often are founded in inaccuracy, misinterpretation and failure (on our part) to correct an in complete concept. Shakespeare's idea that all the world is a …
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In Episode 2.39, I’m chatting with Martine Thomassen about marketing. She shares what she calls Holistic Marketing for putting your best self forward for a new job, or dating or for showing off your business.Από τον Dr. Peggy Malone
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Hello wonderful humans, it's time to consider whether we are living as well as we can. Today, I discuss the idea of living well for the short term and the long term. We rarely give it enough time to consider what matters to us especially when everyone has their own definitions of success, meaning and fulfilment. Have a think from today's episode ab…
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The art of peace is a an encouragement to seek harmony in day to day things and to seek to apply the principle of "Ai" union and Wa, harmony in conflict. The highest expression of the art of war is to use influence and to never have to draw your sword. The way of understanding creates an opportunity to understand and to neutralize conflict by empat…
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There are several theories on fear and also the behaviors that arise from the stimulus that causes us and animals to shirk from danger and protect ourselves. At times we add narrative to make sense of understanding and may created ethics, guidelines and morals and more's that limit the negative effects of what fear would otherwise bring to bear in …
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Walking with the shadow self is a daily event that occurs when we meet obstacles and challenge in what we call our lives. The shadow self may be in the dark but not because it is bad or evil. Often it is mistakenly shunned and relegated to our more primitive more base ideas of what our shadow is. It is from where our feelings, emotions and passions…
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In Episode 2.38 we cover a lot of subjects including your future self, your lizard brain, why being selfish is a good thing and how you can harness the power of adventure and novelty in midlife to slow down your perception of timeΑπό τον Dr. Peggy Malone
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The cephalic phase of hunger extends to acquisition, seeking and hunting. By the visual recall alone will the body drive, seek and hunt to satiate a primal need to survive and to get survival level payoff/reward. By the same token it is the preceding spark that creates an anticipatory "high before the high" that if left unsatisfied can result in fe…
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Hello lovely listeners, today is all about if you had the chance to repeat every day. It may initially feel like fixing anything you regret but I want to coin it as making the most of things. Being more present in situations that you perhaps take for granted. There are many lessons in here that we can implement into all areas of our lives especiall…
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In Episode 2.37, I’m chatting with Susan Salenger, an 80 year old powerhouse about her Book: Sidelined: How Women Can Navigate a Broken Healthcare System. This book examines the many ways in which some women manage and sometimes mismanage their healthcare. Listen in today for some fantastic advice to help you to better advocate for yourself as you …
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Hello amazing humans, today is all about simple living. My case from simplifying life over the years is from my own experience and I want to encourage you to try it too. When we simplify life, it opens up more space for the important things such as health, love and true work that matters to us. There is so much noise trying to pull us away from wha…
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Making the beautiful dangerous and making the dangerous beautiful is a principle that helps us understand how nature speaks to us of danger and risk but also about learning life giving and life preserving skills to a high level where they appear as art and indicate time-borne and repetition based skills. Feeling weak, or lacing in self control or l…
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The unknown is considered a product of a thinking process. Ask a person with anxiety, traumatic stress reactivity and PTSD and their description and definition of the unknown is different and much more real. There is a conceptual idea of the "unknown" and the real, felt experiential perceived aspect of unknown that is perceptual. The conscious know…
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Mirror neurons are closely related to motivation of motor neurons during observational, vicarious learning. We learn social more's and folkways by observing as much as by verbal communication. Much of what we learn that is survival level social value we learn by observing body language and facial expressions as much as by direct instruction. When w…
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On Episode 2.36 I share an interview that I recorded with my colleague Dr. Melissa Longo for her podcast. We cover a lot of subjects including my podcast origin story, how fear can be your friend and how your future self can help you to achieve your goals.Από τον Dr. Peggy Malone
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Conflict is a common event in social interactions that at times can lead to physical aggression and violence at the extreme. The five strategies stem from a martial methodology that was developed to shape the mindset for the highest good in mutual conflict. When one recognizes where conflict occurs, the 5 approaches can assist in neutralizing and p…
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Hello wonderful listeners, one on purpose today. I feel like there are certain moments in life that are pivotal. This is one of them. The day you make the decision to pursue something that deeply matters to you regardless of the outcome. I talk about this being more of a personal project but this decision can be related to a career or a relationshi…
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Suggestion is a powerful mode of creating influence, personal power and transformation within an individual. The fake it till you make it adage pales in comparison to what a well-placed suggestion can do in the mind and life of the suggestable person. To be suggestible does not mean lacking intelligence and gullible. We are suggestible not only to …
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Getting started in building self regulation skills can be hard. But, living with anger, anxiety, fear, reactivity and general discomfort knowing that these states will be recurrent and can make you feel bad by just thinking of it. It is best to get started, one skill at a time. Gain skill, then add a skill when you get comfortable with the prior sk…
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In Episode 2.35 Jeanine Mouchawar, a life coach for the parents of teenagers shares tips for better communication with your teenager to create calm and peace in your house and family.Από τον Dr. Peggy Malone
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The role of Influence, is often called power in social situations and at work is considered authority in work situations. The three terms are often interchangeable in language but have far reaching impact in social interactions from discussion and convincing to destructive and violent displays that may start off as posturing or bravado. Confidence,…
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Hello wonderful humans :) Today is all about understanding how we can do great things and create a life worth living. Only to you! We get way too caught up in what everyone else is doing and playing everyone else's games that we never really consider what a great life is or will be to us. Today that changes. I want you to seriously consider the thi…
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Observation and being able to wait and suspend judgement are important skills to gain in self regulation whether it be a wooded outdoor environment or a more socialized interaction with people. Both require that we accurately interpret what we hear in our environment. These skills help us to become more skillful reckoners in interactions where we i…
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This episode discusses the use of communication tools to prevent bad communication in domestic setting that far too often fall into arguing, yelling and intimidating tones and body language and even to the extremes of destructiveness and violence. The use of the tools of "getting down on their level" is not just a simplifying the message, it is a c…
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We often get stuck in social situations where our self image is at risk for compromise and we may believe that is potentially damaging and is a tangible terrible thing. When we realize that we are playing a socialized game of in-group and out-group dynamics that we feel trapped and unable to escape the socialized hamster wheel. Often we worry about…
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Visual perception is a large percentage of our day to day and moment to moment perceptual experience but is also prone to error under stress and high speed presentation of visual stimulus. The Uncanny valley was coined in 1970 as a response to the forward thinking of Japanese robotist Masaharu Mori when he hypothesized our response to increasingly …
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Hello everyone and welcome to this week's episode which is all about living well. I discuss the importance of anxiety and how we can utilise it more effectively in order for us to live a better life. Share your thoughts below or pop me an email about how it personally relates to you. Otherwise, enjoy! Subscribe for extra morning episodes - https://…
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