What happens when I resist relaxation?

According to Osho, resisting relaxation keeps you interfering with the body’s natural self-regulation, so ordinary sleep cannot repair you deeply; tension accumulates, activity becomes compulsive, and you are driven by speed without direction. Relaxation is ‘waking sleep’: conscious noninterference that lets physiological and psychological healing penetrate deeper than biological sleep. Denying it leaves you restless, exhausted, and disconnected from your own rhythms.

If you fight relaxing, your body can’t fix itself well, so you stay tired and tense.