The coldest day of the Autumn is your very most important reminder to keep on going physically and keep your blood flow pumping around your body.
Your immediate reaction could be to “stay safe” and stay inside on the settee scrolling the TV channels or scrolling through online on your computer.
This version of ‘“staying safe” is a fool’s paradise, and we need to remember how we evolved into this thinking.
When we are born, we learn to crawl, walk, run and generally have a lot of fun moving through playing outside as often as possible. These are the genuine great times we all remember so well for our own lives, our children’s lives and you may be of the age to enjoy your grandchildren’s lives right now.
The thought then of us slowing down, hiding from the cold, doing less and less simply because its cold, wet and dark should go deeply against our own principles.
The full life cycle could be described as staying active and being in motion every single day, we were not meant to be inactive, sitting down for much of the day and we definitely were not meant to be eating ultra-processed food and not exercising which is costing the UK £268 BILLION per year in sickness, time off from work, the cost of dealing with so many people ill from poor lifestyle choices which can be so destructive physically.
Also, the cost of us not moving so much weighs on us very heavily in mental health terms too, if we don’t move, our brain doesn’t want to move either, and we tend to stay in a state of helplessness eventually believing we cannot do anything about it.
This is the coldest day so NEVER fall into the trap of feeling sorry for yourself or even worse comparing yourself to others you know who don’t do a thing most days.
Anyway, don’t set the bar so low that you can brag yourself up by simply saying “at least I’m not so bad as so and so”, keep your standards high and try hanging out with people who do exercise, who do eat healthy because they don’t want to fall sick from eating badly continuously, and they want to keep their mental health in top shape too because they don’t moan about their lives, they look FORWARD to great days ahead of them still, it’s true who you hang out with most you tend to shape your lifestyle habits around.
Yes it’s cold again but see it as the ideal opportunity to move, feel great and keep great health in your life every day, physically and mentally.
