I wanted to fill that void, but needed expert medical assistance for such an ambitious project. Fortunately for me, I'm blessed that my husband of 25 years is an extraordinarily gifted physician. He agreed to work with me on this project. The result is our book, Healing Moves . I myself am a slightly overweight, middle-aged cardiologist, and when you start from yourself, and awareness of yourself, then optimum health and fitness can be seen as an incremental nudge in a somewhat more positive direction.
Movement is one of the best guides as to that direction.
So, if I have a choice between moving a little more or moving a little less, and I can nudge myself toward moving a little more, I am nudging myself toward more optimum health and fitness. This basic individually-oriented incremental nudging is true for anyone of any age in any health or illness category. It also makes the whole notion of incorporating movement into lifestyle accessible. In our hurly-burly society many of us forget to take a lot of time to be where we are now. From that mindful start, then looking around for where can I nudge myself with movement, can be done with very small things like parking your car on the far end of the parking lot instead of the nearest, to more emotional and spiritual things of looking around for something involving movement that would be fun, that I would like to do, that would provide a relief or a play break in my day and bring joy and movement into my day.