While your mind is busy working all day, your mind isn’t always considering the needs of body sitting there, constrained, or standing all day a counter serving customers, walking around serving customers, hunched over on a roof replacing shingles and many other work place roles where we just take for granted our body has to do what it has to do to get the job done. Learning to listen to your body, being mindful of your body’s needs can only help with productivity. Think about it…mindfulness for your mind help minimize stress and anxiety in your thoughts; mindfulness / awareness of your body’s “stresses” will help minimize the stress and anxiety your body has in it.
Read moreWhat exactly is “mind body” exercises?
Good question. I like to think all exercise involves the mind and body. In Pilates there is a conscious effort to think or involve the mind while performing each movement. i.e. thinking about the muscles the exercises is engaging; the sequence of firing of the muscles to perform the given movement; involving the mind when applying the basic principles of Pilates.
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