When we use our body we get smarter and healthier. This is something I have seen and experienced and it has a direct relationship with the changes that are registered in the brain when we move, breathe, sweat and feel our bodies. It gets even better if we also practice intentionally the art of feeling what we are feeling, because this increases interoception; the human sense that is filling research and scientific conversations for the last years.
Thanks to diversity in movement, yoga practices and meditation I concentrate better, I regulate my moods and I find strength for the challenges I set for myself or life throws at me. I am a better partner, mother, teacher, mentor, creative, citizen, eater, thinker and lover because it affects every area of my life.
We need to undo the status given to intellectual activities over physical activities! Most of our time is given to things that promote our intellectual and cognitive capacities, like thinking, solving or creating. The thing is that our brain sits in our head which belongs to a big complex and rich living organism called body! So the whole body needs to be seen, felt and stimulated.
Physical activity goes far beyond releasing stress (which it does), it goes directly to work as a preventive medicine for dementia and other neurodegenerative problems. We need to uplift even more the value we give to our body as the dimension to experience health, wealth and joy.
In fact, the pleasure that appears after moving our bodies in healthy ways is the clear evidence that we are regulating nervous system activity and our whole physiology. This story is not to sell anything that you have to buy. But just keep thinking about it, if the day has a certain number of hours, how much are we giving to what gives us life?
When we move more we love better, we eat better, we think better, we suffer better, we behave better with others.
I leave you with some interesting documents about this and some details on how the season is approaching the schedule. Looking forward to seeing your bodies and the brains inside them very soon!
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