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January Jumpstart | On Movement

Good Life Project

Jonathan Fields / Acast

Living Well, Midlife, Education, Health & Fitness, Wellness, Self-improvement, Intentional Living, Personal Growth, How To

4.53.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

This January Jumpstart episode explores how movement strengthens your mind, body, and immunity. What if exercise could unlock your brain's creativity and make you happier, healthier, and more focused?


Neuroscientist Dr. Jennifer Heisz and physician Dr. Gabrielle Lyon reveal how movement strengthens your mind, body, and immunity. Learn how to reframe exercise as playful self-care, not monotonous drudgery. Discover how muscle builds resilience against disease while microbursts of activity boost cognition. Small steps create big rewards when you tap the mind-body connection through joyful motion. Get science-backed insights on gaining strength, focus, and joy through intuitive movement.


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0:00.0

just sitting there and grinding it out is actually counterproductive.

0:05.4

It would be much better for you to go out and have like a nice walk.

0:09.6

And when we move and give space for the brain to bring up some creative ideas to the

0:16.9

surface to bubble up to the mind then we can surprise ourselves.

0:20.8

So ever... ourselves.

0:29.0

So, ever wonder why exercise has to feel so, quote, bad. Okay, so maybe you're that rare person who found a way to move your body that you love and you just can't wait to do.

0:35.0

But for most people, it's a half to do, not a can't wait to do.

0:40.0

But what if that could be different? And what if it wasn't just that mandatory daily or five day a week exercise about?

0:47.0

But rather more about moving your body in kind or gentler, dare I say, even more joyful ways throughout the day that really made a difference.

0:55.4

And what of avoiding movement and just keeping on keeping on was doing a level of damage

1:00.4

to everything from your physical health to your mental health risk for

1:03.9

disease weight ability and even brain function and work performance and

1:07.6

relationships that you really didn't want to happen. That's what we're diving into in today's fourth installment of our

1:16.1

January jumpstart series on movement. As usual I will tee up the conversation

1:22.2

with some observations from the wacky and wonderful

1:25.1

world of movement.

1:26.4

So for those who don't know, in a past few lives, I actually owned a fitness and a yoga facility

1:31.8

and a

1:33.0

teacher training center was trained in a wide range of modalities

1:35.0

and I have a pretty contrarian take

1:38.0

on a lot of the industry

1:39.0

and how it should be serving people differently.

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