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The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Move More... But for the Right Reasons

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

Pushkin Industries

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.714.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Moving more is great for your happiness - but many of us decide to exercise because we're unhappy with our bodies and long to change them. What should be fun and life-enhancing often becomes saturated with self-loathing.

Jessamyn Stanley identified as a "fat and awkward weirdo", who shied away from exercise until she realised that it was her own body-shaming that was holding her back. She tells Dr Laurie Santos how she decoupled her love of yoga from the corrosive idea of transforming her body - and in the process became an inspirational teacher and author for those who think exercise isn't for them.

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On the face of it, moving your body should be a really good New Year's Happiness School.

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Most research shows that exercise makes us feel good.

0:51.4

In fact, one study showed that a half hour of cardio a day could be as effective for reducing

0:56.8

symptoms of depression as taking an antidepressant medication.

1:01.0

So I should applaud the fact about half of us intend to exercise more in the New Year.

1:05.7

The problem is, I worry we're kind of not doing it right.

1:09.5

For many of us, hitting the gym isn't about enjoying ourselves or feeling better.

1:13.5

It's about looking better.

1:15.2

It's about not really liking our bodies and trying to get them to look like the ones we

1:19.1

see on Instagram.

1:20.1

But could there be a more compassionate, more happiness-inducing way to get our bodies

1:24.4

moving and one that could help us achieve a bigger, well-being boost than we think?

1:29.5

Of course there is.

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