You're listening to the feel good effect. Yes, exercise can make you happier and it's not just about

endorphins or intensity or even how long you do it. Here's what you need to know to exercise for happiness.

Radically simple and ridiculously doable, the feelgood effect will help you redefine wellness on your

terms. Hi, I'm your host, Robin Conley Downs, and I believe that wellness isn't about achieving

another set of impossible standards, but instead finding what works for you. Drawing from

cutting-edge science on mindfulness, habit, and behavior change,

this podcast offers a collection of small mindset shifts that allow for more calm, clarity,

and joy in everyday life and allows you to embrace the idea that gentle is the new perfect.

I invite you to listen in as we cut through the clutter and find the small shifts that

create huge changes in your life, thus striving, more ease. It's time to feel good.

Well, hey, feel good, fam. I am so glad you're here. We are breaking down why and how three minutes of

exercise can redirect your brain toward happiness. Our guest today is health psychologist, Dr. Kelly

McGonigal, author of The Joy of Movement, How Exercise Helps us Find Happiness, hope, connection, and courage.

Dr. McGonigal is also the author of the willpower instinct, the upside of stress, and yoga for

pain relief. But today we're really talking about exercise, how it's directly connected

to happiness, and how to use it to get more happiness

in your life, including why three minutes of exercise can actually rewire and redirect

your brain toward happiness every single day. This is a re-air of a conversation that originally went live in early January of

2020. Many things have changed since then, as you can imagine, as you know. So I wanted to bring this one back

because I know some of you are struggling to make exercise and movement a habit. And when you can

reframe the reason

that you're doing it the why how it's connected to how you want to feel and if you want to feel

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