If you find it hard to get motivated to begin an exercise practice…
If you would rather do anything else than move your body…
You don’t even feel like taking a walk.
Then you really need to move your body!
Reasons why you need to move your body:
- Exercise helps to build good blood circulation.
- Blood circulation moves stagnant energy, so your organs and gland work better. You create hormones that you need to feel rejuvenated and to continue on with motivation.
- Feelings of positivity and joy move into the body when we move with exercise like walking, hiking, climbing, bicycling, gym workouts, yoga, pilates, hula dancing, any dancing!
- You will motivate others around you to have a healthy lifestyle practice, too.
The benefits are astounding and also — it improves your beauty with good blood circulation nourishing the skin, plumping up those fine lines and offering clear radiance to allow your glow to emanate from the inside out!
Get motivated!
To juice the motivation, what I like to do with my health coaching clients is to start with pranayama breath work. This can begin the revitalization of the lungs, get more oxygen in the body, and allow the beginnings of flow to emerge. This allows for similar effects to that of exercise, but can be incredibly motivating for the sedentary person to get moving. That is a great thing, right?
The other facet to getting motivated is that you begin to motivate others. There has never been a better time to becoming self aware to your actions and their impact to the world around you. This is a generous practice to do for yourself and others. Your friends, children, neighbors, and work mates will notice a new you and get inspired by it!
Find your muscles.
The other part to this is finding your muscles!
What does that mean? Well, it’s hard to be motivated if we can’t feel the muscles we need to tone. I know from my clients and also myself, too, that when we can’t find the abs because it is covered in fat, it feels impossible to do abdominal crunches. In fact, we may blow out the lower back muscles if we can’t identify the areas that need toning.
With this in mind, I offer kapalabhati (कपालभाति, Sanskrit) pranayama breath work to my clients to help them locate the muscles with the activation of the abdominals in relationship to the breath. This is a purifying practice that offers an energizing zip to your feelings and motivation, too. Take care in doing this clarifying breath practice before 5PM, or you may be up late in the evening. Not a great idea, as we all need a diurnal lifestyle and to get good rest in the evenings.
Check out my video below for instruction on how to begin and why this matters to establishing an exercise practice:
What did I miss here? Any feedback? Leave notes in the comments below or on my blog!
Lots of love to you,
Angela
