Joshua Citarella

Like, I was feeling pretty regulated.

This thing happened, and I just thought, you know what?

Like, it's okay.

And that's on both sides.

And it becomes recursive as well, right?

You've been in the room.

I learned this wonderful idea a couple of weeks ago called vagal authority.

Vagal?

Vagal authority.

Like the nerve.

Vagus nerve.

So vagal authority describes in any room,

that somebody walked into or any interaction that somebody's having, one person's nervous system is dictating the rest.

So you walk into a room, you're calm, somebody else gets angry.

Do you get angry too?

Do you follow their authority, their vagal authority, or does your calmness seep into them?

The wonderful idea that you have so much spare regulation in your system that other people can almost borrow it from you.

that you're able to, and this isn't always good, right?

You have so much spare anger in your system that you can encourage people to be angry.

You have so much spare excitement or agitation in your system, etc., etc.