Just One Question | Jeffrey Rutstein: Did I Inherit My Nervous System?
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Hello and welcome to Just One Question from Insights at the Edge. I'm Chris Rock. And I'm Mallory Corbin. We're producers at the Sounds True Podcast Network. We work with Tammy on Insights at the Edge to bring you transformational ideas from wisdom teachers around the world. And every week on this show, we pull out some of the most inspiring, most transformational ideas from those hundreds of conversations, and we bring them to you in the form of one question and one answer. Us the name just one question. We hope you enjoy. So, Mallory, what do you have for us this week?
I wanna share a conversation about something that I think that a lot of people struggle with silently. Or maybe not so silently. It's the The things that the way we react to things getting super furious over small slides or overwhelmed by minor criticisms and then really beating ourselves up and thinking something is wrong with me. Yeah, what a what a terrible pattern. Yeah, you overreact and then you Overreact about overreacting. Yes. Yes. So in this clip, we've got Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein.
From Sounds True's Healing Trauma program. And he's talking about the importance of understanding how our nervous system is wired and how it might not be something that we can choose or something that we can willpower our way through. that it might actually be something that is passed down to us, um, possibly from our parents. Yeah, we inherit so many other things genetically and Yeah. Yeah. So he he makes the distinction that uh you can be born with a nervous system that leans anxious or reactive or sluggish. Uh that that's temperament, that's inheritance. Uh it's not a personal character flaw or a personal failure. So once we understand that everything sort of shifts.
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