I second that emotion! Buddha said, "The mind is everything. What you think, you become." When I bother to pay attention to my inner critic and hold him accountable to provide constructive suggestions vs. character summations/damnations, my internal song shifts into much more respectful lyrics, I do have to be vigilant as that Superior Court Judge in my head loves to get away with some pretty toxic narratives coupled with some pretty stiff sentences if left unchallenged!
This is so very true, and thanks for the reminder! It's easy to skip a day and then another day, and dammit, I will get out today. As the poet John Travolta exclaimed in his magnum opus of spoken word, Staying Alive, "You know what I want to do, strut." This is an absolute game-changer. Headphones are on for a walking chat with a friend or a podcast, audiobook, or YouTube video where it's meaningless to stare at the talking head. The killer application of the walk and talk is to call that person I've been meaning/maybe dreading to call for weeks/months, and it's so much less painful when the feet are moving.
To your earlier point, WHY is this stuff not being taught in elementary school?
