Move your body, change your mind, improve your world

Jan Normanton • September 24, 2024

Change your physiology to change your life, even with micromoments of movement

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move your body, change your mind, improve your world

Even on misty, murky mornings it’s still preferable to be out and about, moving my body, getting embodied, dropping in and receiving the abundance that is nature even in the rain!


I find this more preferable than sitting at my PC, on my laptop, on my phone doomscrolling, getting upset and discombobulated, trying to manage my brainfog. This dispels it! Being out in nature, moving and feeling immersed, feeling at one, feeling embodied, alive, vibrant and full of life.


I am grateful when I can get myself out and immerse myself in nature and feel that inner peace, inner harmony and feeling at one with myself. There’s no greater feeling!


We are sentient beings, made to move! Whilst I can let myself get into those stuck state of stress easily – of either hyper or hypo vigilance – where I can feel disempowered, disconnected, discombobulated


I remind myself I have agency and with little daily practices, micromoments of movement, I can shift my physiology back into better states of feeling empowered, connected and expansive. 

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