The hardest thing about exercise is to start doing it. Once you are doing exercise regularly, the hardest thing is to stop it.
Coming up through high school, coaches would tell me not to swing so hard. It's the only way I know. It just happens.
Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.
I taught and studied dance in college, and for over a decade, I thought that would be my career: tap dancer, ballet dancer, modern dancer. I still find myself doing some tumbling or interpretive dancing in the grocery store every now and then.
I am completely at my wits' end if I am unable to practice yoga for a few days at a stretch! Once you get into the flow it's difficult to leave it, precisely because of the way it affects your energy levels.
Move every day. Like taking a shower and brushing your teeth. Make it a part of your everyday life.
Yes, I slouch. My mother tells me that.
I like to have this gut to put my elbow on it when I putt because I did it for so long. I just feel healthier this way.
Fortunately, good posture - like poor posture - is habit forming.
'Closure' is the word used for a loss that's not acknowledged - and the habit this causes, physically and mentally, for anybody who is participating in that.
