We are constantly moving, and not just our bodies.
We move in every way.
It's central to life, and everything around us moves too,
even if it's not visible to our eye.
Movement is critical if you want to have great health,
and even if you are unwell and physically limited,
there are ways to bring movement into your life to help you heal.
Now, there's two things about movement we need to know,
because everything moves.
Everything on planet Earth moves.
Everything does.
The trees are growing all the time.
Everything's growing.
And everything's falling apart.
Yes, these are two ways everything moves.
A building that we build, a man-made building, structure,
slowly falls apart because it's in constant movement.
You just don't see it with the naked eye so easy.
and then we do repairs on a building on a man-made structure and we repaint and we do
we do repairs and we're moving that structure the structure is constantly moving whether it's
moving for betterment or it's falling apart and moving for worse it's moving though at the same
time and same with our bodies our bodies are moving internally everything's moving all the
organs are moving our blood is moving our immune system's moving our endocrine system's moving
Our brain is moving.
Everything is in movement.
And everything on the earth is.
The water moves.
The sky.
The weather.
Everything about the planet and the solar system.
And it goes on and on from there to the universe.
It's all in movement.
Nothing is not moving.
So we want to support the movement in a good way.
We don't want the movement in kind of a way that starts to fall apart, like a man-made structure that needs constant repair and just starts to disintegrate.
We don't want that.
So we have to move.
But if you've been chronically ill and you've been challenged and you've been sick and you have conditions and you're faced with different illnesses and different responsibilities and things are on your plate, there's still ways to move, even if we're limited.
Even if we're limited.
Even if you have chronic fatigue syndrome and you can't function good, we can still get some movement in.
We really can.
A little bit at a time.
every little bit counts.
Every tiny walk, every step you take.
And if you can't step really well because you have a bad back
or you have a bad knee,
then we find other ways to move your arms
and to move your head and move parts of your body.
Movement is critical.
And look, you don't have to be moving in such an intense exercise way.
if you're fortunate and you can do the exercise and you can do some great you know different
varieties of exercise you could ride your bike you could run you can jog you do marathons it's
amazing amazing movement but you know if you're not in that fortunate shape yet or you know or
whatever then you can do a little bit about a little bit of movement you could swim you can
do different things and creative movement too. Let's not forget that. Dancing. There's different
ways of moving, but we have to keep the movement going. We really do. That's important. It really
is. And a little bit at a time. That's all you need. You might sit behind a desk. You might sit
behind a desk for most of your day, you know, six days a week, five or six days a week. So
then you try to get a little bit movement on the weekend and you go on a little bit of a hike and
you take a bicycle ride or you hop in your car and you take a drive. It's a form of movement.
But these are physical forms of movement. What about mental forms of movement? What about that?
Reading, that's a form of movement. So if you're chronically ill and all you can do is just do a
little reading for now. Reading is powerful. Listening to this audio of me is powerful
because it gets you to move. Absolutely. Your brain is moving just hearing the audio. And if
you're reading a book, your brain is moving. There's electricity that's working as you're
reading as you're listening that goes around through your brain. Electrical impulses,
neurotransmitters, they're all connecting neurons. And that's occurring as you're listening to the
audio and reading. So you're in movement. So I like that. I like any kind of movement we can get
out of you. Anything we can get. So eating is another form of movement. Making your own food,
That's a form of movement.
Chopping up your salad, getting your vegetables together, getting your cucumbers, your tomatoes,
getting your avocado, making your guacamole.
Yep, steaming your vegetables, getting your rice together, cooking your potatoes.
Whatever it is that you like to eat.
It's movement.
Preparing food is movement.
And then when you eat, that's movement too.
Yeah, as simple as that.
Just eating is movement.
If you put the mindfulness to eating like we try to do, we try to be mindful in eating, right?
You've heard that before.
But actually know that you're in movement when you're eating.
That's a different kind of mindfulness when you're eating.
It's entirely different.
It's not even just about being mindful about your food.
It's being mindful about eating, meaning your movement.
There's a movement occurring.
Your body is digesting, assimilating.
you're swallowing muscles and nerves are being used this is a form of movement if you're mindful
to it it becomes an exercise more so than the natural ability it already is it becomes enhanced
and you can actually improve your healing just from that alone being mindful about the movements
you make as you're eating so we're in constant movement and it doesn't have to be the traditional
kind, or we're doing the elliptical, or we're doing, you know, the spinning bike, which are
fantastic. I love those. But we can also do the untraditional kind or the unconventional kind.
And that's important too. Breathing is a form of movement. Breathing is a wonderful way for
movement to occur in your life. So sitting there, meditating, breathing, or taking a walk and
breathing. These are all forms of movement. Thinking about your breath, it's a form of movement.
Everything matters. And it's all here. It's all at our fingertips. It's all occurring. It's all
happening. And if, listen, if you're chronically ill and you've been struggling with an illness,
I'm by your side on this. I am. A little bit of movement at a time. That's all. Get a book out.
try to read if you can
if you have difficulty reading
get an audio out
I still want movement in your life
because I want you to heal
so take one day at a time
I'm by your side
have movement in your life any way possible
because the movement you do in your life
and moving forward the way you were talking about
stops us from moving backwards
like I mentioned
because there's those two kinds of movement
there's the movement when you're movement forward
and then there's the movement backwards.
And that movement is like man-made structures falling apart,
people's bodies falling apart.
Just because you're chronically ill or you have a condition
doesn't mean your body's falling apart on any level.
That doesn't mean that.
If we stopped moving on all parts of our life,
we stopped reading, we stopped listening to things,
we stopped watching things,
we stopped trying to function on any level,
that's going backwards. That's the backwards movement. But if you're doing something where
you're using your arms a little bit, you're using your hands, you're using your mind,
you're using your thoughts, you're thinking with your heart. Yeah. Thinking with your heart,
you're doing movement. So you're doing a forward movement. That's what we're talking about here.
It's critical to have in our lives and that's what we're doing.
so I'm by your side
I'm going along with you for the ride
we're getting better together
on every level
and if you feel great
we're getting stronger together
on every level
because this is about keeping you healthy
for the long haul
all the way
to the end of this ride
wonderful
I'll see you in our last healing step
looking forward to it
