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*Shortlisted for Sunday Times Book of the Year*
*A Greater Good Science Center Best Book of 2022*
An eye-opening journey into the power of human movement and how we can harness it to optimize our brain health, boost our mood and improve every aspect of our lives
For our earliest ancestors who hunted and gathered, movement meant survival. Our brains evolved to reward physical activity. Moving, thinking and feeling have always been inextricably linked.
Yet what happens when we stop moving? Today, on average, we spend around 70 percent of our lives sitting or lying completely still. Our sedentary lifestyle--desk jobs, long commutes and lots of screen time--is not only bad for our bodies. It can also result in anxiety, depression and a lower overall IQ.
But there's good news. Even the simplest movements can reactivate our bodies and open up a hotline to our minds, improving our overall well-being and longevity. And we don't have to spend countless hours in the gym. In fact, exercise as we understand it misses the point.
Veteran science journalist Caroline Williams explores the cutting-edge research behind brain health and physical activity, interviewing scientists from around the world to completely reframe our relationship to movement. Along the way she reveals easy tricks that we could all use to improve our memory, maximize our creativity, strengthen our emotional literacy and more. A welcome counterpoint to the current mindfulness craze, Move offers a more stimulating and productive way of freeing our caged minds to live our best lives.
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Typical adults allocate about 70 percent of their time to sitting or lying still. This "descent to seatedness," writes science journalist Williams (My Plastic Brain, 2018), not only harms our physical health; a sedentary lifestyle can also negatively affect mental functions. Humans evolved to be constantly on the move for good reasons, such as avoiding danger or seeking rewards (food and shelter). In her conversations with scientists and "expert movers," Williams constructs a convincing case for the positive influence that bodily movement has on the brain in the way motion alters how we think and feel. All sorts of movements do your mind a big favor: walking, running, tai chi, dancing, playing at school or home. Staying physically active safeguards cognition and may boost creativity. Darwin and Nietzsche incubated some big ideas while taking walks. Even the simple act of physically moving ahead through space confers a sense of purpose and progress. The message here is fundamental and vibrant: movement is marvelous, highly beneficial for body and mind. So why are you sitting around?
