12/03/2024
When I work with folks, we talk a lot about adaptation.
After all it is more than in part the process of adaptation that has caused the situation that they are in to occur.
And it is the process of steering their body to adapt in a very particular way that has the chance at changing their situation for the better.
Now while we all have an incredible amount of potential to steer the direction that our bodies grow and evolve into, the process not only requires certain things to be taken on both intentionally, diligently and in perpetuity… such as exercise… but also certain things to be avoided.
More often than not, the things that need to be avoided are both products and aspects of first world living.
You see, another thing that I find myself talking a lot to folk about is how our modern lives are more than a bit out of step with how we evolved to thrive, and how this is negatively impacting our health and well-being.
In many ways, as a species we have continually sought to make our lives more convenient.
And while the advances of the agricultural, industrial and most recent technological revolutions have allowed us to live more comfortably, and by and large for a longer span of time than the majority of our ancestors, the convenience that they have increasingly provided at each iteration has often times come at a cost.
Mainly, it being our overall health and well-being.
Essentially, it seems we need more than a bit of challenge, strife and struggle in order to stay well… And quite often I find myself having a variety of colorful conversations about how problematic the cushy lifestyle of modern, suburban American can be.
Despite the variety of those conversations, what they are about tends to be predictable and consistent.
They are…
The shoes on out feet,
The surfaces we sleep on,
The screens we use,
The mirrors we view,
and the way we walk.
