M1 : Lesson 9: Module 1 Summary – Homework and Symptom Talk Guidelines + LIVE Q&A Session Recording
NOTE: Please disregard the typo in this video’s slideshow that states you should “Watch Simplified Regulate™ level 1, class 1 and Q&A.” We do not have a Simplified Regulate™ course. The note refers to the Q&A summary videos for Regulate™ Module 1 (please see resources section below).
Please watch the live Q&A’s below the summary video.
They have NEW info and are also a great summary of the material.
In fact, many have reported these Q&A recordings to be their favorite part of the entire Regulate program and are not to be missed!
Transcript
This is a summary of regulate module 1, homework and worksheet list. I’ll put all of these things under this particular lesson, but also each of these worksheets and other practices are located under their assigned lesson. 1st in lesson 3, we have worksheet number 1, which is a checklist of your chronic stress response symptoms and conditions. Second in lesson 4, you have your second worksheet where you can learn the difference between can and dose chemistry, and learn ways to improve your dose chemistry. 3rd and lesson 4, we have worksheet number 3, which are journaling prompts to help you have more awareness of your innate sense of okayness.
4th in lesson 4, we have your guided practice, which is your I am okay even though a part of me might feel not okay, which was the audio practice. Fifth lesson 7, we learned our first tool, which was awareness, pattern, interrupt, and be here now. 6, I recommend watching the simplified version of regulate level 1 when that comes out. And 7, find a study group, which is now called peer led journey teams to implement your practices. All of that information is on the homepage of your SimplerO membership.
And of course, please join the level 1 forum on your SimplerO membership and introduce yourself so that we can help you out as needed. Yes. This process requires some learning and some practice on your part. The good news is that everything I’m teaching is backed by science. Thousands of people recover using these tools.
So all of these things I’m asking you to do is well worth the effort, and I hope that it gives you guidance and inspires you to truly understand this process of self healing that is so empowering. Lastly, one more homework discussion, symptom talk and guidelines for our community. It’s a common practice in most brain retraining programs to change the way that you habitually speak about your situation. When we bring up our symptoms or diagnosis on a consistent basis to others, inform discussions etcetera, we are reinforcing our identity of being sick, and we’re potentially triggering others around us who have fears of similar issues. For this reason, I ask that you keep your diagnosis and specific symptom talk to an absolute minimal when engaging with each other on this platform.
Especially on our forum. We want to keep the forum a safe container for health promoting conversation and understanding. Please focus on asking questions regarding implementation of the tools or understanding the concepts especially refrain from trying to help others understand how sick you are or how your situation might be worse than theirs. These are unhelpful speech habits. Some programs offer the suggestion to referring to your symptoms as it’s to bring complete neutrality to them when speaking.
It’s meaning ITS. So you might say something like, I’m experiencing more it’s today after implementing my new protocol. That way you start to decrease associations in your own brain of meaning behind your symptoms, and you’re respecting those who you are speaking with. I also highly recommend to minimize talking to your family and friends about the details of your illness anymore. This might seem like harsh information and yet it is well established in the neural retraining community that this kind of talking is not helpful to you in the long run.
Again, it’s perpetuating an identity and unconsciously creating associations between your symptoms and your well-being. And at the very least, just try to have a simple check-in at the beginning of the day, and don’t speak of it anymore until the check-in in the next day with your family member. I would sometimes write a quick note to my husband to share my experience, but I wouldn’t go into talking about it. I made a point to talk about what was going well in my life and asked others the same kind of questions to shift my negativity bias. Again, this might feel really difficult to do, and it might seem where gaslighting ourselves are pretending to be fine when we’re not.
But it’s simply to help your brain rewire its habit of perceiving threats and expecting to be ill once again day after day. So to summarize, please refrain from excessive symptom and diagnosis talk as much as you can on our forum and in our class discussions. Try to use neutral terms like it’s when you’re talking about your symptoms or refrain from mentioning them at all. We know you have symptoms or you wouldn’t be here. We already understand that you don’t feel well and you’re asking questions on the forum for help.
Please ask others on the forum this advice that I’m giving you is so helpful if you want more information as there’s many seasoned neural trainers that can explain this maybe even better. Also included is our guide of how to retrain and tips to help you in this community, and I’m gonna put that guide underneath this video lesson as well. Further reading ideas. I highly recommend reading a couple of books to get a more in-depth understanding of chronic stress in the role it plays. I simply love all the books by Doctor Jodaspenza.
They have impacted my life greatly. Breaking the habit of being yourself, You are the placebo and supernatural are a few that I love. I also love the book by Doctor Norman Deutsch, the brain that changes itself, and the brain’s way of healing. This helps you to understand the role of neuroplasticity and why there’s always hope of reversing the effects of stress and how to rewire the brain. Also, vessel vanderkolk.
The body keeps the score is an excellent book. David Eagleman, LiveWire. The inside story of the ever changing brain is another great book. Doctor Daniel Amon, change your brain, and change your life, and Rick Hanson’s hardwiring happiness. Those are a few books that I absolutely love.
The regulate program provides a brief overview of the science of chronic stress, but there’s a world of discovery available and it really gives the power of choice back to us when we realize that we can affect our experience so deeply by just learning how to change the way our brain and nervous system are we responding. Well, that wraps up the module 1. I know it was a big deep dive and we have a little more left in module 2 which is all about the Polyvago theory and mapping the state of your nervous system. I will see you in the following module.