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Conrad Keeps 8 months ago
Reminds me of Søren Kierkegaard quote: “Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness.”
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Conrad Keeps 8 months ago
Fuller quote. “Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.”
No doubt! This is why I gotta start every day with cardio either from some laps in the pool, a hike up the ridge, or lifting at the gym.
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John 8 months ago
Also hormones I did a few weeks of anavar (mild anabolic steroid) and almost instantly felt like a winner. Every situation I experienced, I perceived with the lens that I was a boss and it as good thing And then coming off was about an equal and opposite reaction - so wont be doing it again Insane how much hormones effect your entire life
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Adrian M Lopez 8 months ago
This is why I’m so grateful my fiat job is massage therapy. I get to dynamically move my body… and get paid pretty damn well. You can only contemplate “higher level thinking” when your body isn’t in survival mode. View quoted note →
We live in a physical universe... of course your happiness will be directly affected by your degree of physical fitness/strength. Physics is god
Physiology is biological hardware. Everything else is Bill Gates-like software.
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Dexter 8 months ago
I started hot yoga about 18mths ago and my body and mind have never been in better shape. Now I’m that insufferable friend/coworker that tells anyone with any ailment that they should do hot yoga. Or psychedelics.
True 👌 sometimes the best philosophy is just moving your body. I feel the same when I run, clears the head better than any book
Partially true, partially incorrect logic. Yes, walking a lot is great. Yes, man is an animal, therefore improving physiology improves happiness. No, man is not only an animal, therefore it is dangerously incorrect to infer that there are not other shifts that would have profoundly more impact on happiness than walking 6 miles daily. Plenty of neuroscience-based studies on other higher determinants of happiness also.
Obviously there’s higher order drives in humans, but physicality is a baseline