The brain prioritizes safety and survival over optimization, signaling safety through adequate sleep, nutrition, and maintaining range of motion.

“It's and survival. It's not designed for optimization. And so when we take this lesson uh that your brain is really trying to protect you and is like what's a threat not a threat. There's a reason you're like I'm a little concerned about being held down and like because you probably did that once or twice and your brain's like we're not doing that again and I see what you're doing. You're dragging us back out. So, how do we signal safety to the body? How do we signal safety to the brain? Well, that'd be one way, but suddenly you start to expand that. Sleep is safety, nutrition is safety, having access to my range of motion is safety, right?”