by Nora Reda
Committing to regular exercise is no children’s play. Or is it? Here is how we could shift our attitudes toward exercise and develop the muscle that moves us every time.
The Joy of Movement
Movement is one of the most innate nature of humans, and every living being. It begs the question then, why we need motivation to move as adults when we are so naturally and joyfully moving as children? What happens to the muscle that moves us in our young age later in life? It sounds so funny to ask this question in a world where we are constantly bombarded with messages about how to motivate ourselves to lead a more active life.
Within this statement lies a clue to the answer. So what logically follows is a movement that is done consciously for the betterment of our physical shape and thus the meaning has changed from movement being done for joy to performing it to reach a certain goal or expectation. There is innately nothing wrong with goals and expectations. However, what this mentality leads to is another thing to insert into our busy schedule. (Read more on training optimality here!)
Shifting our mentality about exercise has to do with changing the meaning associated with movement.