Caroline Williams on The Science of Movement
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Caroline Williams is a science journalist and editor. She’s a consultant for and a regular contributor to New Scientist. Her new work has also appeared in The Guardian, the Boston Globe, BBC Future, and BBC Earth among others.
In this episode, Eric and Caroline discuss her book, Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free.
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Caroline Williams and I Discuss The Science of Movement and…
- Her book, Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free
- How moving our bodies can affect the many parameters that affect how we feel
- Meditation is a way to tune in to our body and how we’re feeling
- How our brains were originally meant to inform us how and where to move in the world
- How physical activity positively affects our brains and mental health
- Interoception is the sense of the internal state of our body
- The powerful effects of physical movement on our thoughts and feelings
- Walking at a moderate pace turns down the thinking brain and increases creativity
- Having a strong core and good posture can improve the way we feel
- Strength training and its powerful effect on self-esteem
- The benefits of dancing
- Breathwork and how breathing exercises affect the body
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| 0:00.0 | It's the most common beat in western pop music. |
| 0:02.6 | And it's also this resonant frequency at which, |
| 0:05.4 | if you just let people walk, that's what they will go to. |
| 0:08.2 | And if you get people to tap along to a beat in a lab, |
| 0:11.0 | that's also the beat that they are most accurate at. |
| 0:21.2 | Welcome to the one you feed. |
| 0:23.3 | Throughout time, great thinkers have recognized the importance |
| 0:26.3 | of the thoughts we have, quotes like, |
| 0:28.6 | garbage in, garbage out, or you are what you think, ring true. |
| 0:33.4 | And yet, for many of us, our thoughts don't strengthen or empower us. |
| 0:37.7 | We tend toward negativity, self-pity, jealousy, or fear. |
| 0:42.4 | We see what we don't have, instead of what we do, |
| 0:45.3 | we think things that hold us back and dampen our spirit. |
| 0:48.8 | But it's not just about thinking, our actions matter. |
| 0:52.2 | It takes conscious, consistent, and creative effort |
| 0:55.0 | to make a life worth living. |
| 0:57.1 | This podcast is about how other people |
| 0:59.1 | keep themselves moving in the right direction, |
| 1:01.5 | how they feed their good wolf. |
| 1:17.3 | Hi, it's Bethany Frankel. |
| 1:18.8 | My time on the Real Housewives of New York |
| 1:20.8 | is a few years behind me. |
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