Movement is the GOAL

The goal is movement. Movement allows us to live a proper life. It’s at the core of everything. And everything else—nourishment, rest, posture, challenge—exists to support it.

So how do we support quality movement?

We support it by becoming aware of our inputs:

The nourishment we consume.

The positions we place ourselves in during the day.

The challenges we give our muscles—to work or not to work.

The flexion, extension, and rotation of our joints.

How long we sit. How often we stand. Whether our work limits our ranges of motion.

All of this influences how we feel, how we continue to move, and ultimately, how we recover.

Recovery depends on movement.

It’s all based on the kind of work we do.

There’s always a cycle—effort and rest, work and recovery. It’s built in.

There’s an ebb and flow to life, a rhythm.

A circadian rhythm.

Organisms come alive at certain times and regenerate at others.

We can’t exist in isolation.

We need appropriate nourishment, movement, stillness, rhythm.

We need to be able to sit, stand, lie down, and control our actions with intention—not habit.

Our movement practices are our guides.

They should be rhythmic, yes, but also intentional.

There’s spontaneous, subtle movement—like NEAT (non-exercise activity thermogenesis), simple fidgeting throughout the day—that’s incredibly effective.

Then there’s purposeful movement—positional awareness, alignment, posture. Knowing what positions we’re putting ourselves in.

Are we taking mini-recoveries through the day?

Or are we waiting until the very end of the night to decompress?

Our bodies need time to reset.

To decompress the spine.

To rebalance the fluids.

To realign.

Where is our energy going?

Are we sweating? Are we digesting? Are we aware?

Or are we burning out our reserves without knowing where our energy is being spent?

We have to be conscious of our energy.

We have to be willing to have discernment.

We have to be willing to disconnect from the outside world when needed—because not everything serves us.

That’s what the brain is there for.

It’s not just built to find truth—it’s built to filter, to discern, to not waste resources on things that don’t matter.

Our cortex, our thinking brain, was built for observation, comparison, nuance.

To evaluate, to calculate, to ask: Am I in balance with my surroundings?

Because balance is built into the universe.

It’s the foundation of math, of physics, of biology.

So we must look at the larger systems we live in.

Are we in rhythm with them—or out of sync?

We have to study how we are built.

What our physiology actually needs.

Not what we’re marketed. Not the sound bites.

We live in a world trying to sell us solutions to our fear, our suffering.

But the answer is simpler: reconnect to how you’re made.

How the environment is made.

And how the two interact.

A daisy doesn’t try to be a rose.

It just becomes what it’s meant to be.

We, on the other hand, have this brilliant creative mind.

We make up stories, beliefs—some true, some not.

And we act like all of them are real.

That’s where much of the conflict in the world comes from.

So if we want to heal, to move, to live fully—we have to come back to truth.

Realignment.

Flow.