Personality Hacker Podcast The Hidden Power That Self Regulates You | Podcast 615
Nov 17, 2025
Discover how self-regulation across four personality channels—body, emotion, mind, and meaning—can transform your life. The hosts delve into the power of gratitude, examining how it can calm the nervous system and counteract dysregulation. They discuss the resistance to gratitude, cultural shifts away from communal rituals, and the profound impact gratitude has on relationships. From practical exercises to embracing gratitude as a form of rebellion against chaos, this discussion offers enlightening insights for personal growth.
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Four Channels Of Dysregulation
- Personality dysregulation happens across four channels: somatic, emotional, cognitive, and existential.
- Identifying which channel is dysregulated is the first and often biggest step toward fixing it.
Counting Blessings Calmed Overwhelm
- Joel shares a moment when negative Sunday thoughts shifted after he mentally counted blessings from childhood Sunday school.
- Listing concrete positives ordered his cognition and calmed his overwhelm.
Gratitude Orders Thought Patterns
- Gratitude can regulate cognition by steering attention toward valued, positive facts.
- Turning scattered negative thoughts into an ordered list of good things reduces perceived problems.
