The expectations, beliefs, and perceptions about exercise can ultimately promote – or possibly inhibit – its benefits.
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Limited Vocabulary
What if you limited the vocabulary you use to describe exercise? What if the only words you knew were positive and motivating?
Body at Work, Mind at Play
Emotional fatigue doesn’t just suck, it sucks the life out of you. The emotional state of play is the remedy. Life feels heavy right now so make it feel lighter by bringing a challenge to your muscles while your mind is at play.
Going Against the Gratitude Grain
Gratitude. NOT Journaling. Journaling is passive. I prefer active, tangible forms of meditating on gratitude. Journaling is great if it works for you, but nothing works for everyone.
Movement is Mind Medicine
Movement=happy. Or at least it should. And why the 150 minutes of exercise a week is a lie told because we can’t handle the truth.
Still Life…or Thrill Life?
You are not a bowl of fruit. Yet. With time we move less as advancements in society engineer movement out of everyday life in ever-expanding ways. The result is that instead of running around hunting and gathering to survive, we now have to re-insert physical activity into our days in discreet segments of time we […]
The Walking Games
Walking! Everybody’s doing it. Now let’s make sure you keep doing it with some clever, fun, and simple ways to keep it interesting.
Stress…Needs Better PR
Stress gets a bad rap. Stress is not all bad and all stress management techniques are not all good. Both are highly individualized to you.
This is Your Brain on Novelty
Like a puppy on a paddleboard – try something new and light your brain up. Your brain craves novelty like you crave ice cream.
Decide…to Kill Other Choices
Decide – like homicide means to murder – means to kill off other choices. Isn’t it time to decide to be healthy once-and-for-all.