Diabetes and A Call to Get Moving?
Health has come into the headlines this week with a statistical look at Type 2 Diabetes in combination with Obesity and the Eating Disorders awareness week! How poignant.
Perhaps that’s why the research from the Journal of Epistemiology is timely. People in the nation have settled into a particular lifestyle of affordability. Going out and enjoying oneself in the fresh air is no longer preferred. Staying at home and playing Wii is! (As much as I have enjoyed this myself), we do need some fresh air and exercise.
Gentle exercise can be just that, by the way. Moving gently and observing one’s body in collaboration with the great and mighty brain is incredible. Remember, it’s a good idea to indulge your senses in corrective movement patterns that distract you from those old challenging habits that have given you a neck ache and back ache for what seems like an eternal age!
The climate of anxiety that can paralyse us into sitting in front of the television and listening to more doom and gloom and perhaps paralyse us into eating more takeaways or junk food than getting up and cooking, is all around us folks! How can I then, motivate myself to get moving?
Firstly, I admit to living without a television! Ok I admit to listening to Radio 4 in the car, when I’m out and about, watching DVD’s on my laptop and generally researching issues of interest on the internet and reading books, which I love. Because of my lifestyle in Dance, Movement and Health, I am always on the move, whether it’s in the studio or outside talking to other people. The days are starting to get longer and that 4am wake up call for me is one of the best times of the day:)
I start by getting up and then that’s it! I’m off.
Our bodies inside and out are in constant motion, remember. There is always a moving dance going on. Our breath is like a dance – see what your body does when you take a breath in, then observe it as you breathe out. Parts of your body move and dance in response to every action, have you noticed?
Enjoy the days ahead:)
Much love and many blessings
Always:)
“The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.”
Mata Hari
