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Co-regulation is a person becoming balanced together with another. The presence of a calm and safe other can settle a person's nervous system; from infancy on, a person first learns to be balanced through another's regulation. Co-regulation is also the ground of self-regulation; we often learn to regulate ourselves first by being regulated together with another. This concept shows that a person is balanced not alone but within relationship. The presence of a safe other is often the most powerful calmer.