Mindful Monday - Fitness

About This Talk

Chris takes up a friend’s request for a talk on fitness and widens it beyond the physical. He describes overall fitness as being mindful of daily practices: enough sleep, a balanced diet, some movement and a steady diet of positive, curious ideas for the mind. He asks listeners to watch their own habits and check whether each one nourishes them.

Key Ideas

• Overall fitness covers sleep, diet, exercise and mental fitness, and movement can be as simple as stretching.
• Feed your mind with positive, expansive ideas that spark curiosity, like Chris’s interest in archaeology, history and cosmology.
• Ask whether each meal, TV show or activity nourishes you, and you’ll settle into habits that serve you best.

“Is this nourishing me, whatever it may be? Is this meal gonna nourish me? Is this TV show going to nourish me?”