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The example is very clear, isn’t it? And yet we do the opposite when trying to start exercising. We try and run for a mile, or go to the gym for an hour, or play a of tennis - and then wonder why we feel so stiff and sore next day. Then we try it again, but the body hates it - and then we stop. Again.
As In her book “This year I will…”, Andy Ryan, an expert in collaborative thinking, spells out why such a gung-ho approach doesn’t work:
Whenever we initiate change, even a one, we activate fear in our emotional brain….If the fear is big enough, the fight-or-flight response will go off and we’ll run from what we’re trying to do.
We need a different approach. We need an approach that eases the body into exercise so gradually, so that we don’t trigger the flight response.
How do we create change so gently that we don’t take fright?
There is a very interesting Japanese called Kaizen which can help us do that. Kaizen focuses on continuous but small change.
Andy Ryan explains:
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