The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Marksissons

and is narrated by Brock Armstrong.

Hi listeners, it's Brad Kearns, reading today's post in place of the legendary Brock Armstrong. The title is

How to Get Your Groove Back. Maybe it comes in a heavenly mirrored changing room as you wonder

when you developed back fat. Perhaps you notice that you can't keep up with your kids on a bike

ride around town anymore. You might see it when you have a hard

time moving or carrying things that you used to. Maybe you wake up one day and realize that you never

thought you'd experience so many aches, pains, and stiffness at such a young age. Perhaps you've just

known for a long time that you don't like how you feel anymore. We get off track for various reasons, illness,

parenthood, divorce, death, job change, moving. In probably every case, we didn't anticipate

losing sight of our health, but upheaval, both good and bad, can often divert us in ways that we

don't expect. The next question becomes, what now?

We certainly have the option of going back to sleep, so to speak, and then waking up to the fact again

when some more dramatic detail shows itself. Alternatively, we can decide it's time. Specifically, we can decide it's time to start feeling good again.

Time to get our strength and energy back. Time to like how we look again. Time to not feel

limited in everyday life activities. Time to reclaim our physical and maybe emotional resilience.

It's just time to get our groove back. Getting our

groove back is a phrase that's thrown around in lifestyle headlines, self-help columns, and pep talks

for anyone coming out of transition. From the angle of health, however, what does this process look like?

A few weeks ago, I took up the concept of inertia. Certainly, I believe

that concept figures into this picture, but I think there's more than physical stasis to contend

with when we're talking about, well, groove. To feel like we need to get back in the groove

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