Now, let’s picture we are that same five foot six inches, but our 230 pounds changes the way we move, the way we think, the way we feel physically and the way we look at our day.
We aren’t going to be as happy to move around because there’s more of us to move, because people may look at us in judgment, because our balance is off.
Not only do we favor activities that don’t require moving, but we don’t have the same energetic will to be out and about and we don’t expend enough energy to balance what we eat.
We’d rather have a companion snack while we are sitting at the computer than go running.
Let’s get back to how easy it is to sit in one place and “Go to school.” During high school, we may be in “Blended education,” where part of our public schooling is done in a face-to-face classroom, another part online, another part done through mobile events.
In all three settings, some students are very much connected with fellow students through electronic messaging, electronic tracking of friends’ physical whereabouts through standard phone apps that identify of their friends; others of us try to be invisible in school, hibernate in our homes, only showing our head when we have study groups or meetings by webcam, even while getting college degrees or running full time careers.
More than this and the all-time favorite for people who are uncomfortable in their own skin is they don’t have to MOVE. The same is true with running a career from the home.
We push a button, for the most part, and go shopping from our chair or bed.
We can opt for a job where we do the work online, never see our co-workers or are a solopreneur, stay invisible and cut the need to move.
So whether we don’t like exercise or it doesn’t like us, there are tons of ways we can slowly but surely, almost secretly from ourselves, without our knowing it, start to move when we do our daily life, even if we go from bed to shower to chair to video screening couch to chair and back to bed.
Even if we go from bed to the bathroom to the couch, if we add one little itsy, bitsy thing; we will happier, we will feel endorphins filling our body with life, we will be more vigorous, we will be more vital, our muscles will get toned, our blood will circulate more, our bones and tendons will become more pliable, our brain function will increase and we will move toward balancing our weight.
Before you sit up in bed for the first time of the day, wiggle your toes 9X. If you like, do one foot at a time so that you can concentrate on the action.
As you sit up in bed to get up, we sometimes stretch.
Put your palms on your lower stomach and rock forward with the feet on the floor 9 X, without moving from the hips down.
Sitting in your chair, with hands on your desk, computer keys or hands on upper thighs, elbows against body, without moving hips or below; rotate L shoulder to the rear, then R shoulder to the rear, 9X, alternating.
If you like the chair exercise and you’re at the mall, take a seat and do the exercise.
As a reminder, put a tiny sign on the wall near your feet in the bedroom, across from wherever you look in the bathroom, by the bathroom exit, in the kitchen, at your chair and, definitely, on your phone.
“TOE WIGGLES 9X” “TEAPOT STRETCHES” “ROCK THE BACK 9X” “WALK THE RUNWAY” “PREPARE & EAT WITH STRAIGHT BACK” “SHOULDER TWISTS 9X” CONCLUSION There is so much media about the benefit of cumulative work, the story of how Aesop’s tortoise beat the hare through persistent work, how Aesop’s lion was saved by a wee mouse.
In the same way, when we move a little on a consistent basis; we do so much to save our heart, our mind, our body and our social life.
Do not worry, if you are not interested in trying one or all of these moves.
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