Module 4: Health

“The body is what we use to experience the world. It is our emotion-driven machine and how we process and create the life of our dreams.”

Movement and Exercise
Exercise is our relationship with movement.
Like nutrition, it applies to our physical health because it is a characteristic of the animal component of our nature.
Our body is an organic machine.
All physical matter is in a state of entropy.
Machines require movement or they get stiff, rust, and break down.
Our bodies require movement or they break down as well.
Injuries are more a factor of lack of movement than of movement and decrepitude sets in as we age.

Knowing that the body is an animal and maintaining that state of nature requires that we move.
Our bodies are not designed to sit or lay down all day, especially for multiple days in a row.
Just like every other large mammal, humans have to move to maintain a healthy body.

Exercise is easy because it is just movement.
It is simple math and physics.
The movement of mass through space and time.
Exercise is neutral.
The reason exercise feels hard is because of our relationship (thoughts) about it.
Look at children on the playground.
They never seem to get tired.
Running isn’t a difficult task for them.
Climbing is fun and they make a game of it.
It is only when our thoughts about exercise change that it becomes difficult.
It is our relationship with movement that makes exercise undesirable, not exercise itself.

Movement and exercise are a combination of thought, emotion, and action.
Physical health around exercise is your relationship (thoughts) about movement.
Your behavior (actions) around movement is the manifestation (symptom) of your relationship (thoughts).

Watch the video below for more information on our animal nature and movement, how our relationship with movement changes as we age and why it’s so important to keep moving as we age, and how you can change your relationship with exercise.

https://vimeo.com/331627033/ae844897c2

Self-Study Assignment for Module 4, Day 2

In your notebook, continue to do a thought download every day this week using a circumstance of your choice to focus on. After finishing your thought download, do a model on two thoughts from your download (two models).

In your notebook, answer the questions:

What is your relationship with movement?
Your relationship with movement is all your thoughts about movement – write them down.
Do you enjoy it? Why or why not?
What is your relationship with exercise?
Your relationship with exercise is all your thoughts about exercise – write them down.
Do you enjoy it? Why or why not?
Have you always thought this way about exercise? Why or why not?
Is there a difference in your mind between the words ‘movement’ and ‘exercise’?
If so, what is the difference?
If you thought of exercise as just movement, would it change your relationship with it? Why or why not?
Have you ever participated in any sports or physical activity in school or with friends or family (competitive or non-competitive)? If not, why not?
Do you want to move more? Why or why not?