The more we associate movement to work the less likely we are to do it.
When you look at kids, movement is natural.
They run, skip, and jump without any mental resistance or worries at all—all while being told that they need to calm down and “stop,” by adults.
How ironic, that when we get old, we are told we aren’t moving enough and that we need to start running, skipping, and jumping more.
…And then end up paying huge sums of money for boot camp trainers, fitness guides, and programs that’ll hopefully, somehow, maybe retrain our brains to overcome the mental resistance and worries that were once non-existent.
Maybe, we could learn a thing or two from kids.
Maybe, if we stopped looking at exercise as an obligation and looked at it as an expression of bodily freedom, we’d more joyfully move our way to health without so many daily, mental battles and wars.