I’ve been thinking a lot about something lately:
How can a body want to feel better…
and still resist the very things that help it heal?
We stretch, we breathe, we lift, we train—and in the moment, it feels good. The release. The power. The calm after.
But then the next day?
That tension creeps back in.
That old pain resurfaces.
That doubt shows up again in the form of fatigue or tightness or just a feeling of… “ugh, not today.”
Why?
Here’s what I’ve come to understand:
The body doesn’t respond to what we want.
It responds to what we’ve taught it to expect.
And for most of us, what it expects is stress.
Pushing. Overriding. Not enough time. Not enough breath.
Movement that feels more like punishment than restoration.
Rest that’s never truly restful.
So even when we do something nourishing, the body doesn’t always trust it.
Because trust isn’t built in a single session.
It’s built in accumulated signals.
And for a long time, most of us were sending mixed ones.
That’s what nervous system dysregulation actually is:
Not a glitch.
Not a flaw.
Just a body doing its best to protect us based on old data.
It’s like a friend who’s been burned one too many times.
They don’t stop loving you.
They just take longer to believe it’s safe again.
So if you’re wondering why it takes so long to feel better—why you feel amazing during the workout, but not changed by it—this is why.
The nervous system needs to recalibrate.
And that recalibration is subtle, slow, and entirely worth it.
This is the kind of work we do inside the Beginner’s Sequence in the MBG App.
It’s not just a training plan—it’s a conversation with your body.
One that rebuilds trust with each breath, each pose, each choice to show up without force.
Because your body wants to trust you again.
You just have to show it that it can.
—Jessica Hinds
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