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I say clearly in the video that nervous system regulation works. I am questioning what remains untouched beneath the relief.
Everyone is talking about nervous system regulation, emotional regulation, nervous system healing and how to regulate your emotions...I feel called to speak on this topic because I discovered the whole nervous system regulation is a very popular hoax. While working with my coaching clients, I kept seeing something much less comforting. What gets called nervous system dysregulation is often not the real problem. Your nervous system may be reacting to an invisible job and emotional labor for others you do not even realize you are doing that keeps the emotional regulation necessary, and never ending.
Then you become anxious, exhausted, obsessive and dysregulated, and somehow the solution is even more self regulation. Now you must regulate your nervous system, regulate your emotions and heal yourself.Three jobs! And somehow you are still the problem.
This video exposes why nervous system regulation does not work when you use it to keep functioning inside the same life, relationship or identity that is exhausting you. I also show you what happened with one of my clients when the self image generating his anxiety collapsed, and what transformational coaching with me actually does.
➤➤ Q & A That Came Up:
Q: What if I do not feel stressed around people? My life is the opposite of stressful, but my body still becomes activated when I am just chilling.
A: For some people it is relationships. For others it is how they are being perceived, uncertainty about the future, anticipating problems, maintaining an identity or trying to control what happens next. The specific reason is not the point. Even while you are chilling, the mind may be performing invisible labor to manage your life and keep everything under control. That constant mental activation is exhausting. Regulation can soothe its effects without ending the job.
Q: But my nervous system really is dysregulated.
A: Maybe, but you also spend all day monitoring people and how you come across, rehearsing conversations, preventing conflict, trying to make the right impression, postponing self expression and making sure nothing goes wrong. Your nervous system is not doing this as a hobby.
Q: What if my nervous system is activated for no reason and regulation methods genuinely help?
A: As I said in the video, nervous system regulation works. The question is whether “for no reason” is a fact or simply where the investigation stopped. A method can reduce the activation without revealing what the activated part needs you to notice.
Q: Are you saying this is my fault?
A: No. You did not sit down one morning and deliberately design your anxiety. But it is being produced through things you keep believing, protecting and doing. That is good news because it means it is not a mysterious creature that moved into your body and changed the locks.
Q: But I need nervous system regulation. I cannot function without it.
A: Then keep using it. The question is not whether it helps you function, the question is why functioning requires constant intervention. If you cannot function without repeatedly regulating yourself, that does not mean the investigation is over. It reveals how much something is costing you.
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