Once you stop bracing against the feeling, the body can do what it is built to do: self-regulate. Restlessness is often a sign of mobilized energy—stress chemistry, unspent arousal, or anxious anticipation. If the mind keeps pushing it away, that energy stays “stuck” and keeps signaling urgency.
Relaxation, however, gives the system room to complete the cycle. Similar ideas appear in mindfulness-based stress reduction (Jon Kabat-Zinn, 1990), where observing sensations without judgment allows them to shift and fade naturally. The quote highlights this organic unwinding: calm emerges when the struggle stops feeding the fire. [...]
