Somatic hygiene means doing small, ordinary things each day that keep your nervous system from quietly wearing down, even when nothing feels wrong.
Somatic hygiene works by reducing background regulatory load during normal activity so that the body’s capacity to regulate and recover is preserved over time.
Because modern life imposes continuous low-grade demands on regulatory systems without clear recovery periods, maintenance practices must be brief, frequent, and low-intensity to prevent cumulative wear that does not present as acute illness.
Somatic hygiene consists of routine, low-intensity practices that prevent cumulative regulatory injury to embodied physiological systems under conditions of chronic, sub-clinical demand.