Workshop # 5

Mushu changes color when he's scared.

Our bearded dragon goes from bright orange to dark gray when something startles him. He's both apex predator and prey—hunting crickets one moment, hiding from shadows the next.

Fifteen years of PTSD therapy taught me something uncomfortable: I do the same thing.

We all carry both modes. Discovery mode—the predator scanning for opportunity. Defense mode—the prey scanning for a threat. Both are fixated on the same thing: the meal. Either you're hunting for one, or you're trying not to become one.

Here's the problem: when you walk into a meeting in one of those modes and don't know it, you're sending signals about a meal to people who just showed up for a conversation.

The solution isn't to eliminate these modes. It's to name them out loud.

"I'm feeling a little aggressive today." "I'm more nervous than usual—just so you know."

Mushu can't do that. You can.

That's the difference between instinct and awareness—between reacting and choosing.

This workshop comes from a question a self-guided client asked about the somatic exercises in My Now.

THIS IS NOT TRAINING. IT'S CALIBRATION.

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— Robert (Sherpa) Millar | Bespoke Compass