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Mar 18 - 4 Scientific Reasons Why Moving Your Body Boosts Your Mental State
Let go for a moment and embrace where you are.
Daily Motivation
March 18, 2025
TODAY'S MOTIVATIONAL MESSAGE
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Give yourself permission to let go of your burdens, even if it’s only for a few minutes. For now, be at peace with where you are. Build awareness of the gifts that are present in your life. Try to... Continue Reading
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4 Scientific Reasons Why Moving Your Body Boosts Your Mental State
Your mental health and physical health don’t exist in separate bubbles. In reality, they exist more like a Venn Diagram.
For example, you might exercise for your physical health. Yet, this, inevitably, spills over and improves your mental health as well (hello, feel-good endorphins!).
Like personal relationships, your mental and physical health is a two-way street. Exercise impacts your mood, and your mood impacts whether or not you take care of your physical body.
In other words, movement is just as much a mental health strategy as it is a physical health strategy. So, let’s dive into this topic a little bit more.
Why and how does moving your body elevate your mental state?
12 Easy Ways to Show an Act of Kindness to a Stranger
“Kindness is doing what you can, where you are, with what you have.” — unknown
When we think about acts of kindness, we might automatically imagine incredibly sweeping and generous acts. Yet, acts of kindness don’t need to be anything big. The little things count too (if not more!).
But if you have social anxiety or other circumstances, acts of kindness, especially for strangers, might create more angst than it’s worth.
Again, small acts of kindness matter. And here’s another thing: You don’t even need to interact with someone to offer kindness to a stranger. So, what can you do? Here are twelve ideas!
One Positive Action
Imagine what the world looks like through someone else’s eyes:
We spend so much of our lives defending our own perspectives, our experiences, our beliefs, our version of the truth. But real courage isn’t about proving we’re right; it’s about being willing to set our certainty aside for just a moment and imagine what the world looks like through someone else’s eyes. Not to agree. Not to argue. Just to see.
Empathy isn’t about fixing or even about understanding in the way we think of it. It’s about acknowledging that every person is carrying a story we can’t fully know. It’s looking at a situation and saying, I wonder what this feels like for them. And when we do that, when we get curious instead of judgmental, something shifts. We don’t have to abandon our values or beliefs, but we do soften the edges. We make space for humanity.
One of the biggest myths about empathy is that it means we have to change our minds or compromise who we are. That’s not true. Empathy is about connection, not agreement. It’s about saying, I see you. I may not walk the same path, but I recognize that yours is real, too. And when we allow ourselves that perspective, even for a second, we open the door to something radical: the possibility that we’re all just doing the best we can with what we know.
The world doesn’t get better when we harden ourselves to others. It gets better when we have the courage to see beyond our own experience and into the hearts of the people around us. Because at the end of the day, understanding isn’t a surrender, it’s an act of unimaginable strength. And that strength is what makes true connection possible.
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Today's Affirmation
I celebrate my wins, and those of others. I am cultivating more joy and goodwill in my life. The right resources and opportunities are always available to me... Continue Reading
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