“As we drove home, the exhaustion set in. I had never been so tired or thankful for a shower in my life. Here I was yet again smashing assumptions I had of myself. What got me there was a commitment to do them. I gave myself a target and made sure I hit the mark.”
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In today's episode, we are back again with our How To Train Your Mind series covering movement or how to move well. This may seem counterintuitive to some. How does moving the body help people train their minds? As with many aspects of training the mind, being able to move well allows you to build awareness of the body and by extension, the mind when you're not in a training environment. From my own experience, I've found that as a beginner, there is resistance when training your body is not accustomed to the movements. As you gain experience, the act of movement can become more internal in the sense of how nuanced the feeling of that movement is. A movement practice also becomes a place that you can push yourself to failure that is, for the most part, safe. For me, moving well allows me to become comfortable with failure at a personal level but still be able to try again.
Let zoom out and look at how movement as been disincentivized in our daily routines.
Much of our time in the developed world, we are stuck in stationary positions at work sitting at your desk, sitting in meetings, sitting in your car. The s-word has been reported as being analogous to smoking in the plethora of adverse health impacts and have continued to increase.
By limiting exposure to a broader range of movement, we have lost an essential awareness of our bodies. "Get out of your head and into the body," is one quote that shows why movement is so vital. In the modern world, being stationary allow our minds to wander and at its worst, ruminate, but when you start moving your mind as no choice but to be connected to where your body is. Movement is one of the best ways we have to pattern interrupt and even a gateway to other aspects of training the mind. From my journey, which we will be examining for the majority of this podcast, movement has been a significant catalyst in allowing me to explore all areas when it comes to mindset.
For the full written episode head to feedingcuriosity.net/podcast/movement
