Physical health supports our mental health and our collective health by providing physically well-resourced individuals to participate in society. When we feel good physically, we can show up for one another. Concurrently, when our collective, societal structures are set up in an overly draining and pressured way, our physical and mental health suffer.
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Ideas
- interrelation with mental health—body and mind supporting each other.
- creating a strong base for resilience
- food, nutrition
- movement, exercise
- sleep
- accessible health
- Systemically: how do we reduce the blockages people have to embodiment?
- Reducing the adversarial relationship to body [just as we do toward mind]. ~Scott Anderson
- Healing
- meaning, values, purpose—without this, our body-mind is stressed!
- integrated body-mind therapy
- doing body work that allows mental stress to release and vice versa!
- practices for downregulating
- Using the stress as the object of meditation can be very supportive when the body is tight ~Scott Anderson
- Simple meditation on the breath, allowing the body to loosen from there, and allowing emotions to come to the fore and be acknowledged, perhaps released.
- Appreciation of what our body is doing right:
“Developing kindness for ourselves brings balance to the mind and gives us the resources to care for others. It can help to start with our often underappreciated bodies.
Take a moment now to notice all of the little things your body is doing right. Imagine all of those systems working together, supporting you throughout the day.” 1 - subtle body
- Awareness Yoga
- cosmology of subtle body—connection to environmental health
- rewilding
- integrating movement into daily life