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Experience. Experiment. Engage.

Here’s an idea to explore the 3 E’s.

Experience: once a month experience something new. Yes, brand new. Sure stepping outside your comfort zone qualifies but doesn’t have to be so extreme. Could be a new restaurant, those online French lessons you’ve been thinking about, or even a new morning walking route.

Experiment: once a week experiment with a new flavor of exercise. Maybe just even substituting your spin class for a total bodyweight workout. Okay, if that’s too much how about instead of the treadmill go green once a week. Get outdoors no matter what the weather.

Engage: once a day engage with someone in your life in a completely different way. Make it a positive way. Tell your best friend how awesome it is to have her in your life; make your Mother lunch that day or even tell that person that you see at work e-v-e-r-y day that they look nice. Be sincere. Otherwise, don’t say it.

So what do any of these have to do with movement really?

Movement is all about experimenting with the experience of engagement. We’re not robots, although some of our routines sure look it. The relationship that you have to what you do physically is about doing the right thing for yourself. How do you know what to do? You experiment. It’s about finding that intelligent action based on what you need at this point in your life. That becomes an experience. Tie that to the awareness of what you are doing. The experimenting becomes a harmonious reflection of a new way to be, a new way to move, attuning to a whole new practice maybe.

Moving more today is about engaging in the experience by experimenting and exploring. It’s going left instead of right out of your driveway for your morning walk. It’s bringing a 5 lb. weight to work, using it at lunchtime instead of reading the trash magazines. It’s lacing up with your office mate for a 20 minute green walk on Thursdays.

Moving more today is central to everything you do… it’s just a different way of looking at it.

Bet you already knew that.

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