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What moving the body does to the mind | Jim Kwik

14 Mar 2022 · 1 min

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Short spoken excerpt from a YouTube video in which Jim Kwik encourages listeners to move their bodies (shake out, change posture, breathe, smile) to change mood. He states that changing physiology changes psychology and uses the metaphor that people should act as a "thermostat" (setting internal goals/standards) rather than a "thermometer" (only reflecting the environment).

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Stand up right now and just shake out your body a little bit like this because as your body moves your brain grooves and so you know this changing your physiology changes your psychology, right? Changing your posture like take a deep breath right now and then just exhale and move your body and just look up, put a big smile on your face. Don't you feel better? So you have control of how you feel and two ways of changing it changing your thoughts and also changing the way you move your body because you are what I call a thermostat. You're not a thermometer. A thermometer, what's the function of thermometer? It just reflects what the environment is giving it. It reflects it. A thermostat you set right? You set a goal, you set a vision, you set a dream and all of a sudden the environment raises to meet that new standard and you want to be a thermostat and you are a thermostat because that's why you're watching.