What does moving your body means for you?

What does moving your body means for you?

Moving has always been very important to me. From a young age, I was very active and full of energy. I have been lucky to live close to nature and going for a walk or a hike with my dad was part of a weekly routine. Our home was also located close to the beach and had a pool so swimming became very natural to me growing up. I tried different types of activities, such as dancing and Taekwondo. For me, dancing has been more a way of expression rather than a sport, especially during my teenage years when the relationship with my body began to change, even though I remember my sore legs and glutes muscles after each class. Dancing is a great way to discover and accept yourself.
In Taekwondo, I was just curious to see how violence can classify as a sport and I also wanted to learn some self-defense techniques. I was 14 at that time and I recognized not only the strength that the body can build through regular practices but also, the magic of the technique through developed control. The most important being the control of the mind.
Through all types of sports, from gymnastics to volleyball, golf and running, to wrestling and tennis, etc, all have a common aspect: developing mental strength. I have never met anyone who practices a regular sport (3 times a week minimum) and feels down or depressed. Also, I noticed that the people who are the most driven, positive, purposeful, self-disciplined are the ones who regularly engage their bodies in activities. And It can be any sort of physical activity as long as it explores the range of motions of your own body and is executed regularly for a certain period of time.
Somehow, in the past decades, we all became excellent at “performing” but with our minds: multitasking more than ever, with 2 billion thoughts going from one place to another. Some sort of brain a sport? 🙂 Therefore, moving our body creates spaces in our brain cells for us to think better, to focus better, and to feel better. Without going too deep into explaining, the dopamine, endorphins, and other “pleasure” hormones released by the brain during physical activities, cause that “feeling good” feeling post exercising. Living in a generation with the highest obesity and depression rates in history, let’s keep moving, for the respect of our body and the sanity of our mind.