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Optimizing Your Walks

Optimizing Your Walks

Modern life panders to our innate desire to be sedentary, and never has it been more difficult to resist the alluring convenience of screens.

Yet walking matters. On today’s show author Annabel Abbs-Streets suggests tangible ways to attain the full range of benefits that walking has to offer — physical, emotional, and spiritual — that’s backed by latest research.

 

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[7:00] A laundry list of all the physiological benefits of walking for movement (get ready to be blown away)

[11:00] Why it’s important to walk with our eyes, plus: the mental health benefits associated with panoramic vision

[16:00] Want more calm in your life? Research finds that these very specific nature sounds matter

[21:00] Terpenes, baby! Large trees offer us these psychological and physiological benefits

[25:00] Don’t shy away from that mud puddle. Soil microbes matter!

[30:00] How to best optimize your daily walk for health and wellness benefits

 

 

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New things are everywhere—and they’re causing us to disconnect from what we value most.

In a world that constantly tells us that new is better, our relentless pursuit of material wealth is costing us money, time and happiness. Worse, when we define ourselves by what we own rather than who we are, we reduce our lives to a single, superficial dimension.

On today’s show, New York Times journalist Eric Athas offers advice for stepping away from the cycle of constant buying, saying no to shallowness, and discovering the right kind of “new” in our lives.

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[8:00] We're wired to become bored the familiar, and other truths to newness

[16:00] Consumption has costs! (In fact, it robs us of our finite attention, dilutes our capacity for genuine enjoyment, and misaligns our pursuit of happiness.)

[26:00] Musings on the ways in which overconsumption leads to superficiality

[37:00] Put down the trinket! Redefining what it means to experience novelty, growth, and freshness without relying on a transaction

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