Happiness Break: Tune Into Your Body, with Radha Agrawal

The Science of Happiness

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Science, Social Sciences

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🗓️ 1 December 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Happiness isn't only in your head — your body is important, too. This week, Radha Agrawal leads us in a short Japanese calisthenics practice called Radio Taiso.

Check out Radha Agrawal’s video guide to this practice: https://dose.daybreaker.com/videos/microdose-oxytocin-healthy-spine

Today’s Happiness Break guide:

Radha Agrawal is Japanese-Indian author and a founder of Daybreaker, a company that throws sober dance parties at sunrise all around the world.
Learn more about Daybreaker: https://www.daybreaker.com/

The Science of Happiness listeners get 100% off their first month of Daybreaker’s Dose, using code GGSC at check out: http://dose.daybreaker.com?code=ggsc

Follow Radha on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/love.radha/

Follow Radha on Twitter: https://twitter.com/radhatwin

Learn more about Radha and her book, Belong: https://belongbook.com/

More resources from The Greater Good Science Center:

Moving Your Body Is Like a Tune-Up for Your Mind: https://tinyurl.com/2f64na8b
Five Surprising Ways Exercise Changes Your Brain: https://tinyurl.com/4pbx3rua
How Tuning In to Your Body Can Make You More Resilient: https://tinyurl.com/328scfjj
Four Ways Dancing Makes You Happier: https://tinyurl.com/yxp6mxdw

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0:00.0	We all need breaks and this is a happiness break. A series by the science of
0:07.1	happiness where we take 10 minutes or so out of our day, just a short break to
0:11.3	bring us more happiness. I'm Dacker Keltner and today we're going to try an
0:16.2	exercise that has been practiced in Japan for about a hundred years. It's called
0:20.2	Radio Tiso, which means radio calisthenics in Japanese. It started as a radio
0:26.0	program in Japan that broadcasts morning daily exercises for the whole
0:30.0	country to hear and practice together a way to promote healthy lifestyles. And now
0:35.7	we're starting to learn about some of the health benefits. Studies out of
0:38.8	Japan find this practice actually helps older adults stay focused and have
0:43.2	sharper attention in memory as they age. And another study found that radio
0:47.7	calisthenics support skeletal muscle strength in patients with type 2 diabetes.
0:52.2	And we know in general the daily exercise and moving the body in simple ways
0:56.8	for a few minutes can actually benefit cognitive function later in life, life
1:01.2	expectancy, and cardiovascular function. Our guide for today's happiness break is
1:06.6	Radha Agrawal. She's a Japanese Indian author and a founder of Daybreaker, a
1:11.4	company that throws sober dance parties at sunrise all around the world. Here's
1:17.1	Radha. So let's come to standing and just take a moment to arrive, let all your
1:27.4	to-do lists fly away, let all the racing thoughts move away from you and just be
1:33.6	here in complete presence with this very moment. Starting just standing straight
1:42.0	up and tall, stretch your arms up to the sky like a snow angel and give yourself a
1:48.4	full body morning stretch. Reach, reach, reach at the top, crinkling the sides of
1:53.8	your mouth towards your ears into a soft smile and stretching again, taking a
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