Rewiring Your Brain for Happiness | Jameela Jamil EP 589

The Daily Motivation

Lewis Howes

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 893 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Jameela Jamil discussed how she has focused on happiness and autonomy through embracing neuroscience and exercise. She explained how diet and exercise culture can be exclusive and punitive, so she wants to make movement inclusive and fun through her initiative. Jamil reflected on how criticism and betrayed friendships, while painful, gave her clarity on who truly supports her. Overall, she conveyed a message of empowerment, self-care, and having the benefit of the doubt.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hi my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.
0:10.0	When you think about the neurological benefits of exercise and the fact that within 10 to 15 minutes
0:17.2	You have endorphins you have happy chemicals going through your brain that are
0:20.3	distressing you making it more likely for you to be able to sleep that night distressing you, making it more likely for you to be able to sleep that night,
0:24.3	de-stressing you, you immediately feel better than you felt beforehand.
0:28.7	And then if you keep that up every day, within a week or two, your life starts to genuinely feel differently until I've been trying to bring my audience along with me on this journey doing that.
0:36.7	It's called Move for Your Mind. But I found a way that is like in baggy clothes eating sugary snacks so we can divorce the idea of calories out, calories in,
0:44.4	we're going against all of exercise culture and all of diet culture, because exercise culture and
0:48.2	diet culture are just married now.
0:50.3	And so we are, we've kind of created this slightly anarchist rebellious like exercise
0:54.9	Don't work up what makes you're moving yeah but like dance in your kitchen do things that are free lift water bottles lift your dog lift your child you, go for a walk every day.
1:05.0	Do simple things.
1:06.0	Buy a $300 walking machine which might be expensive for some people, some people it might be affordable.
1:11.0	So if you're a woman and you're afraid of
1:12.7	walking at night I walk on that and I watch my favorite TV shows and then I get my half
1:16.5	an hour a day and then I feel amazing and I have a great night's sleep.
1:18.9	We're trying to find unpretentious fun and welcoming ways for people at any size or with any
1:23.4	disability or any stage of pregnancy to join us and not feel ostracized.
1:27.0	That's cool. I mean whenever there's a like a plus-size line for exercise workout
1:31.6	the world goes mad. So what did you want them to wear when they were exercising?
1:36.4	You want these people to exercise and work out and be healthy. What do you want to be naked
1:40.0	in the gym? The gyms are not a very friendly space. So it's just about finding an alternative way
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Lewis Howes, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Lewis Howes and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.