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Your Nervous System Is Socially Regulated
Published 1 week, 5 days ago
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You do not regulate your nervous system alone. Long before conscious thought, the body reads the people around you — their tone, posture, attention, approval, and disapproval. From this, it decides whether it is safe to open or contract.
This episode explores how social environments shape the nervous system at a biological level. Drawing from neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy — including insights echoed by Dale Carnegie and the principle of Ubuntu — we examine why chronic tension, self-doubt, and defensiveness are often not personal failures, but relational climates.
Respect regulates.
Safety stabilizes.
Contempt constricts.
Through practical reflection, this episode invites you to notice which environments enlarge your nervous system and which ones keep it vigilant — and how calm, respectful connection becomes a form of neurological nourishment.
Calm creates power.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ministry-of-mind--6690976/support.
Ministry of Mind — Where Calm Creates Power.
🎧 Long-form video editions available on YouTube
🎵 instrumental music by Ministry of Music on Spotify
calm • clarity • discipline • mental resilience
This episode includes AI-generated content.
This episode explores how social environments shape the nervous system at a biological level. Drawing from neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy — including insights echoed by Dale Carnegie and the principle of Ubuntu — we examine why chronic tension, self-doubt, and defensiveness are often not personal failures, but relational climates.
Respect regulates.
Safety stabilizes.
Contempt constricts.
Through practical reflection, this episode invites you to notice which environments enlarge your nervous system and which ones keep it vigilant — and how calm, respectful connection becomes a form of neurological nourishment.
Calm creates power.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/ministry-of-mind--6690976/support.
Ministry of Mind — Where Calm Creates Power.
🎧 Long-form video editions available on YouTube
🎵 instrumental music by Ministry of Music on Spotify
calm • clarity • discipline • mental resilience
This episode includes AI-generated content.