Discovering Joy Through Embodied Exercise

The most sustainable and potent motivation is experiencing joy and curiosity within an activity. Cultivate joy for exercise and fascination with fitness to remove the need for constant external motivation.

Embodiment will help you become deeply rooted within yourself with confidence, and it will become the foundation for how you move through your days.

The best path to uncover our true desires lies in the body. Our embodied experience of how goals and activities feel to pursue can highlight where there’s personal resonance.

Gaining a deeper understanding of what we want is crucial to embracing exercise in an enjoyable and effective way. It’s hard to enjoy exercise if there’s something we truly want from it and we’re not progressing toward it. Making sustained progress is difficult if we haven’t clarified what we’re aiming for.

a.Exploring Messages: Take some time to explore what you’ve been told about exercise. Can you recognize any external voices, such as those of a parent, coach, or friend that may have influenced how you choose to move your body or feel about exercise in general? Write down your answers or, instead, just think about what came up, or share the informa