How to Create an Exercise Habit Without Driving Yourself Nuts | Kelly McGonigal

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Dan Harris, Health & Fitness, Mindfulness, Dharma, Mental Health, Meditation

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🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

In this episode from our archives, psychologist Kelly McGonigal dives into her book The Joy of Movement and practical steps on how to develop healthy habits.

Kelly McGonigal, PhD, is a health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University, and a leading expert in the new field of “science-help.” She is passionate about translating cutting-edge research from psychology, neuroscience, and medicine into practical strategies for health, happiness, and personal success. She is the author of The Joy of Movement, The Willpower Instinct, and The Upside of Stress.

In this conversation we talk about:

Why her book is a love letter to movement and human nature
The science behind the runner’s high
Why she wants to change the conversation around movement
Why shame and self-criticism is disempowering and not motivating
The value of setting intentions
How Kelly has used psychology and meditation to relieve her own pain and suffering
And what Tonglen meditation is — and its impact on her life

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0:00.0	This is the 10% happier podcast.
0:06.2	I'm Dan Harris.
0:11.2	Hello everybody.
0:12.2	It is a statement of the blazingly obvious that regularly moving your body, working out
0:18.5	dancing, taking walks, whatever, is a wise and healthy thing to do.
0:22.9	It's good for your physiology and your psychology.
0:26.2	But so many of us, myself included, get tangled up in knots over exercise.
0:31.8	We struggle to boot up a habit and then we self-flagelate or maybe we have a habit going,
0:37.3	but we're working out too hard, massacistically trying to whip our bodies into a certain shape.
0:42.3	It is very easy to get dysregulated about all of this.
0:45.7	So today, my guest is going to talk about how to move through this sphere of life with
0:50.8	some degree of sanity.
0:53.5	Kelly McGonagall, PhD, is a health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University.
0:59.1	Her most recent book is called The Joy of Movement.
1:02.2	Before that, she wrote the willpower instinct and the upside of stress.
1:06.8	She's also the host of the Healthy Habits course, over on the 10% happier app.
1:11.7	In this conversation, we talk about why she describes her book as a love letter to movement
1:15.8	and human nature.
1:17.5	We talk about the science behind the runners high.
1:20.2	Why so-called hope molecules get pumped out of your muscles during exercise?
1:24.7	Why she wants to change the conversation around movement in particular, she wants to emphasize
1:29.1	that it's not just about burning calories.
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