The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson, and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

Is embodied movement a primal key to emotional health?

Women carry trauma in their hips.

The stray remark got my attention too.

I was walking along the beach when I heard it.

Two women, deep in conversation, had passed me.

Between the waves and my dog's bark, it was the only snippet I caught.

One had matter-of-factly declared it,

and the other offered a knowing sigh in agreement. As a trainer, the thought jumped out at me.

Not so much the gendered suggestion, I have no claim on expertise there, but the idea that

emotion gets stored in our bodies and not just in our memories.

All of us are at various points in life subject to pain, loss, and suffering,

whether we contend with something as severe as trauma or something difficult but normal,

like grief, anxiety, or resentment.

How do unresolved emotions linger within our physiology or even particular locations or

functions within it? How might these feelings that we retain act as a wildcard in our overall health?

Finally, in keeping with this possibility, does moving through emotional suffering obliges perhaps

to move bodily for healing?

All of this, you could say, flies in the face of the modern cerebral perspective.

Ever since the 17th century, the Western sense of true identity has been philosophically disembodied,

e.g., I think, therefore I am. The mind, with its thoughts and sentiment, was separated,

elevated above the baser body of instinct and machination. Increasingly, however, that disembodied

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