Brad Stulberg
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whether they have always been that way or whether they've experienced heroic individualism and worked their way out of it or depression or anxiety, what have you, some sort of physical activity is generally a part of their process.
whether they have always been that way or whether they've experienced heroic individualism and worked their way out of it or depression or anxiety, what have you, some sort of physical activity is generally a part of their process.
And then I got looking to the ancient wisdom traditions and particularly in the West, so stoicism in the Greeks, they didn't separate mind and body.
And then I got looking to the ancient wisdom traditions and particularly in the West, so stoicism in the Greeks, they didn't separate mind and body.
School was the gymnasium and intellect.
School was the gymnasium and intellect.
And it always fascinates me because you look back thousands of years and then today there's all this research that shows that when we're regularly in movement practice, we're more creative.
And it always fascinates me because you look back thousands of years and then today there's all this research that shows that when we're regularly in movement practice, we're more creative.
We have better emotional control.
We have better emotional control.
We remember more.
We remember more.
There's studies of kids that show that when they vigorously exercise, they score better on tests.
There's studies of kids that show that when they vigorously exercise, they score better on tests.
So I think that we separate the mind and body at our own peril.
So I think that we separate the mind and body at our own peril.
And it's actually in the book I write, it's not mind or body.
And it's actually in the book I write, it's not mind or body.
It's not mind and body.
It's not mind and body.