Your Body Wasn’t Built for Hurry
Hurry, write this damn article!!!!!
“Hurry is the greatest enemy of a spiritual life.” — Dr. Dallas Willard
Cardiologist Meyer Friedman coined the phrase “hurry sickness” after noticing his patients lived with a “harrying sense of time urgency.”
You probably know the feeling — speeding up to pass a car for no reason, losing patience with slow Wi-Fi, feeling wired and behind even when you’re on track.
When you live like this, your body pays the price.
Cortisol spikes, blood pressure climbs, and chronic stress slowly drains your energy and shortens your lifespan.
But you don’t need to move to the mountains or quit your job to slow down.
What follows are seven biohacks to help you eliminate hurry, recover from stress, and restore real presence in your life.
Let’s go.
1. Begin Every Morning with Movement
Movement floods your body with oxygen, endorphins, and natural cannabinoids — the feel-good chemicals that sharpen focus and calm anxiety.
Exercising in the morning also gives your brain nootropic-like effects: improved focus, energy, and productivity. A perfect elixir for crushing hurry.
How to start:
Lay out your workout clothes the night before.
Keep a simple plan: one short yoga flow, 20 burpees, 20 kettlebell squats.
Set a 20-minute timer and move!
2. Train Your Nervous System with Breathwork
Pause right now.
Are you breathing into your belly?
Take one deep breath: fill from your belly to your ribs to your chest, then exhale slowly.
Hurry can’t survive in a body that breathes deeply.
Benefits of daily breathwork:
Boosts focus and HRV
Lowers cortisol and anxiety
Balances energy and nervous system
My favorite YouTube guide is Breathe With Sandy — his binaural-beat sessions for relaxation and focus are next-level.
How to start:
Schedule one 10-minute breathwork break each day. Set an alarm, find a quiet spot, and just breathe.
3. Achieve One 90-Minute Flow State Every Day
Research shows it takes about 23 minutes to regain full focus after switching tasks.
When you work uninterrupted, your brain releases dopamine and norepinephrine — the chemistry of creativity and drive.
Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi called this state flow, the peak of human performance where time disappears and effort feels effortless.
Benefits:
Boosts motivation, creativity, and dopamine flow
Enhances focus, cognitive speed, and productivity
Calms the nervous system and leaves you mentally recharged
How to practice:
Block one 90-minute focus session daily — same time, same place.
Silence notifications, close tabs, hide your phone.
Choose one high-leverage task that truly moves your life forward.
When your mind enters flow, hurry vanishes and clarity takes over.
4. Strengthen Your Prefrontal Cortex
Your prefrontal cortex (PFC) is the part of your brain that says, “Shhh… relax.”
It governs focus, planning, empathy, and self-control — the antidote to hurry.
When the PFC is strong, you stay centered no matter what’s happening. When it’s weak, the amygdala (your fear center) runs the show.
Meditation and mindfulness literally increase gray-matter density in the PFC and quiet the amygdala.
Three simple ways to train it:
Meditation — ten minutes of stillness daily builds prefrontal gray matter and lowers stress hormones.
Wall Staring — sit quietly and look at a blank wall for five minutes. No phone, no music. Just awareness.
Racquet Sports — tennis, ping-pong, and pickleball train focus and rapid decision-making.
For more PFC biohacks, check out Heavily Meditated by Dave Asprey.
A stronger PFC means a calmer, slower, more deliberate you.
5. Feed Your Brain the Right Nutrients
My naturopath, Dr. David Morcom, taught me that most brains aren’t broken — they’re inflamed or undernourished.
Your brain needs raw materials to create energy and neurotransmitters: choline, B-vitamins, DHA omega-3s, antioxidants, and amino acids. Without them, focus drops and mood swings rise.
Five essentials:
Citicoline (CDP-Choline) – Fuels communication between brain cells and enhances focus.
B6, B9, B12 – Convert food into brain energy and repair neurons.
DHA Omega-3s – Reduce inflammation and strengthen gray matter.
L-Theanine – Promotes calm, creative alpha brain waves and smooths caffeine jitters.
Bacopa Monnieri – Boosts memory, reduces anxiety, and improves synaptic signaling.
Covering these bases is easiest with a well-formulated nootropic stack.
I love Qualia Mind — it combines 30 brain-supportive compounds in clinically effective ratios and bioavailable forms.
Feed your brain what it needs, and focus returns — naturally.
6. Take Neuro Minerals
Most of us are magnesium-deficient, and that single deficiency fuels anxiety, irritability, and fatigue.
Minerals like magnesium, potassium, and sodium regulate the nervous system, balance hormones, and stabilize mood.
Daily Mineral Schedule:
Morning: Add heavy-metal-free sea salt or a clean electrolyte mix with sea moss and trace minerals to your water.
Midday & Night: Take a full-spectrum magnesium supplement (glycinate, malate, taurate, threonate, citrate, sulfate, orotate).
All day: Drink 3–4 liters of filtered mineralized water.
This small habit balances your adrenals, steadies energy, and keeps hurry out of your physiology.
7. Trust in Something Bigger Than Yourself
One of the greatest hurry-crushers is faith.
Whatever you call it — God, the universe, nature, love — that higher intelligence can lift the heaviest worries off your shoulders.
Daily Practice:
Start with simple morning prayer or meditation.
Journal ten things you’re grateful for.
Step outside, look at the sky, feel awe.
Read something that realigns your soul — The Parallel Sayings or The Power of Now.
Faith is both spiritual and physiological — it literally tells your body, you’re safe.
💫 Closing Thoughts
Thank you for reading.
You don’t have to do these perfectly. You just have to show up.
When you move, breathe, nourish, and ground yourself, you change your energy — and that change spreads.
That’s how we make the world less hurried: one body, one breath, one morning at a time.
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❤️ — Jack Livaditis, Biohack With Jack
I feel like all your posts are exactly what I need in the moment, thank you!
Another 10/10 article.
I wake up super early so after some sun lamp time, I love a little morning walk when it’s still pitch black and I can see the stars. Can confirm that looking at the sky with awe is a great start to the day.
Here’s to slowing down ✨