Five Needs of the New Human
It's not as weird as it sounds, I promise. It's just that your body, our bodies are changing, and they need some upgrades.
Change happens whether you’re ready or not. Unfortunately, most people aren’t ready for it.
Not because they’re lazy or unmotivated. But simply because they don’t have the capacity for it.
That’s why we resist change and fear it. We don’t have what it takes to thrive through it. Change requires energy and resources. And without them, we become overwhelmed, dysregulated, and exhausted.
In the process, we return to our “old” patterns, the familiar, safe, and comfortable ones we don’t particularly love. Patterns like:
Skipping your morning workout because you’d rather sleep in.
Waiting for motivation to show up.
Suppressing your emotions by downing a bag of chips.
Numbing out by scrolling on your phone.
But it doesn’t have to be this way. You just have to know how to change (not force it).
“Why can’t I do what I know I should?”
Most people ask questions like, “What does it actually take to live healthy?”
But if you knew, would you do it?
I think most people know what it takes to live a healthy life. The question isn’t what but… “Why can’t I do what I know I should?”
The best news is that both questions can be solved by the same process. That is building capacity and resourcing your body. Providing what it needs to do what you know you should, which is also what’s required to create the highest expression of health.
I recorded a video of this lesson, explaining why building capacity is more important than biohacking and how dysregulation is still a form of regulation. Additionally, I shared a personal lesson from my experience cold plunging in a 33-degree river.
Video: Why biohacking isn’t the answer, dysregulation, and cold-plunging.
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“Dysregulation Is Still a Form of Regulation”
One of the best quotes I heard last year was from Michale Chatham: “Dysregulation is a form of regulation.” It’s the same with imbalance. It doesn’t mean your body is failing you. It means your body is doing exactly what it was designed to do.
Dysregulation and imbalance are the body’s way of adapting to an environment it lacks the capacity to handle. It’s the body doing the best with what it has.
The nervous system is constantly asking one question: “What do I need to survive this?”
That question becomes is two fold. It becomes louder when:
Your body is underresourced and lacking capacity.
Your enviornment is overwhelming and scary.
When the world speeds up, your body responds. When demands increase, the body compensates. When resources are low, the body protects.
The problem is never that your body is broken or wrong — it’s doing the best with what it has. The problem is that you’re asking it to function in a rapidly changing world without updating the way you support it.
It’s like attempting to work online using dial-up. That program is outdated, slow, and lacking capacity. You wouldn’t get anything done. The same applies to your body. It has a new program, but it needs the fuel to live it.
This is where capacity becomes essential. Because the future won’t require harder humans, it will require more resourceful ones.