🌱 Regulate

Phase 1 of the Vital Clarity Code.
This isn’t relaxation therapy. It’s nervous-system triage — restoring enough margin for the body to stop running survival code.

Regulate brings you out of chronic threat physiology so your system can actually read its own signals.
Skip this phase, everything wobbles: hormones, glucose, sleep, interventions, even mindset work.

What Regulate Actually Does

  • Lowers sympathetic overdrive and interrupts chronic bracing
  • Restores the downshift reflex (ability to settle after stimulation)
  • Rebuilds interoceptive accuracy — reading what your body is actually saying
  • Creates metabolic buffer so glucose swings stop hijacking mood and energy
  • Reduces limbic hypervigilance so the system stops over-interpreting noise as danger
  • Opens enough physiologic space for SWIM distortions to start unwinding

Clinical Indicators You’re in Regulate

These show up when the body has no margin and is filtering everything through threat:

  • Sleep fragmentation or “micro-wake” patterns
  • Wired–tired loops
  • Hot flashes triggered by minor inputs
  • Overreaction to supplements, exercise, or environmental shifts
  • Overwhelm at low load: difficulty tracking or sequencing
  • Feeling like every decision costs too much energy

🪶 Micropractice: Legs on Wall

A mechanical downshift for overloaded systems.

How to do it (the clinical, no-nonsense version):

  1. Slide your hips toward a wall until your legs can rest vertically.
    • Knees soft, not locked.
    • Low back neutral (don’t flatten or force it).
  2. Let your arms fall where they want — palms open, elbows heavy.
  3. Breathe normally.
    • No breathwork, no forcing. Let the exhale lengthen on its own.
  4. Stay for 2–5 minutes.
    • Longer isn’t better — the goal is a reset, not a collapse into stillness.

Why this works:

  • Reduces axial load on the psoas and pelvic floor
  • Improves venous + lymphatic return
  • Quietly shifts the midbrain threat filter
  • Interrupts sympathetic locking without pushing the system into shutdown

Use it when you feel keyed up, scattered, or overdrawn on margin — the classic entry point patterns for Regulate.

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