Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanojia
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The key thing is we just want to restore this normal fluctuation.
It doesn't matter what you do.
The important thing is the variety.
If you've been sitting on your ass for eight hours a day, it doesn't matter what kind of movement you do.
You can do yoga.
You can do stretching.
You can go for a walk.
You can take a bath.
You can even just get up and do this.
It doesn't matter what kind of movement you do.
The key thing is that you move in some way.
Now, the last thing that we're going to talk about are two microscopic techniques.
So these are actual techniques from something called logotherapy.
So I don't know if you all have heard of a guy named Viktor Frankl.
Right.
So he wrote Man's Search for Meaning, was a Holocaust survivor, became a doctor, was I think I guess a psychiatrist.
I'm not sure if he was like neurologist or psychiatrist or what.
But he developed this system of therapy, which was specifically targeting existential depression.
So here's just his characterization.
Patients who fall into this diagnostic category usually complain of a sense of futility and meaningless or emptiness and void.