How you feel is the
earliest indicator of your health on a cellular level.
You don't need a lot
of money to make a disease of behavior. When the basics of life (food, clean
water, and shelter) are so easily obtained, nature takes over. It is completely natural to avoid work
(movement, in this case)…. Diseases of behavior arise in situations where the
quality of the food being consumed is poor, stress levels are elevated
frequently, and the work performed by the body is low and unvarying.
Before we lived in
the age of convenience, movement of the human body was necessary for sustaining
life. Finding, capturing, and collecting
food and water required all-day, lifelong frequencies of movement.
The twenty-pound
weight is not the load. The load is the experience created by carrying it.
Your body is never
"out of shape"; it is always in a shape created by how you have moved
up to this very moment.
The first step to
radically improving your health is to let go of the notion that movement is
exercise.
Being strong or
healthy in one specific way doesn't transfer over to being strong or healthy in
every way.
Having strong,
regularly used parts next to underused or (overused) weak ones can actually
increase tissue damage.
Exercise is
movement, but movement is not always exercise.
The difference
between a non-exerciser and someone who works out regularly is about three
hundred minutes a week.
