I realized that the body lives largely out of habit. It memorizes the mode we are most often in and over time begins to maintain it automatically.

From the very beginning of life, the body enters certain scenarios: how to treat itself, in what rhythm to live, what to expect from the future. If this background is filled with exhaustion, anxiety, lack of sleep and constant inner «must», the body gradually accepts it as a norm and begins to move along the trajectory of extinction. Not because it is «designed» to do so, but because this is the state that has become habitual.

But in the same way, the body is also capable of getting used to other things. When sleep, movement, nourishment, quiet and restoration become the norm, it begins to sustain life. And not just existence, but a sense of liveliness, renewal and inner resource.

Any new adjustment requires effort at first. The first few days are the most difficult: the body resists because the previous mode is familiar and seems safe. But if you hold the chosen course long enough, the resistance weakens, and the state's autosupport is activated.

This is what happens with nutrition, with fasting, with exertion, and with rest. It is as if we are pouring a new mold: at first it is soft and pliable, and then it gradually becomes fixed. And then the body itself holds on to what has become its habitual norm.

In this sense, we can say that the body is not programmed once and for all. It follows the script that we repeat. And if we live for a long time from a state of life, recovery and attention to ourselves, the body begins to support not fading but renewal.

Yuri Gorlov