Unleash the Power! Exploring the Body and Brain Connection
One of my core beliefs is to live your life through connection. Connection not only applies to relating with other people in a genuine and authentic way in order to live a more enriching life, but it also applies to internally developing the relationships across your heart, mind, body, and spirit to live a more meaningful life.
At ACTIV365, we refer to these as the Emotional, Mental, Physical and Spiritual dimensions of your well-being and they are all integral to achieving Balance in your life, which is another key principle of our coaching philosophy. In fact, my company’s logo illustrates this concept.
Although there are many layers to the ‘ACTIV365 Balance Wheel’ logo, in its simplest form, it represents taking action across the four dimensions of your well-being.
In this example, the colored quadrants represent those four areas of our health (e.g., the Emotional, Mental, Physical and Spiritual) and the four arched arrows form the ‘wheel’ that represents motion – or action – across those dimensions.
As we begin to move, we gain momentum in our lives, get into balance and can work towards setting and achieving our goals. That’s a lot that’s happening, but much more is going on than we realize ….
“And Action!”
Like a director’s call that readies actors to start a new scene in a film’s storyline, “Action!” propels us forward in our lives, too.
When we take action across these four dimensions of our well-being, we increasingly build stronger bonds and connections from one dimension to the other. For example, when we explore the Physical dimension of our health by being ACTIVE or exercising, we are both fueling the body and sharpening the mind (the Mental dimension).
Likewise, when you’re mentally ACTIVE and engaged in something that stimulates the brain, it then feeds the body, heart, and spirit. In other words, taking ACTION on one health dimension directly enhances the others and ultimately contributes to more balance in your life.
This is exactly how I feel when I’m doing some of my favorite activities!
I absolutely love staying active and being outdoors in nature! It thrills me, gets me excited about life, makes me feel lighter – and yet also grounds me and keeps me in balance.
Whether I’m heading outside to go explore an area on a trail run, heading to the beach, fly fishing a river I love, or strapping my boots into the bindings of my snowboard, I’m getting into action and engaging my senses. As I exercise my body to perform in these activities, I’m also exercising my mind to sharpen it and focus on the task at hand, as well as the environment around me.
The benefits of this exertion are numerous and positive as they lift your spirits and make you feel good. They also allow you to exorcise the negatives from your mind, body, heart and spirit – like the pressures we all experience from daily life and work. This guides us towards creating and living a more balance existence.
This is living ACTIV365! … And I’m a testament to its power in my life.
Living this way not only way allows us to create connections across these important areas of our well-being, but to also grow in healthy ways as we progress through our lives.
The great news for all of us, though, is that we don’t have to be adrenaline junkies doing extreme sports to make and build these cross-dimension connections in our health, we just need to experience some form of physical change on a regular basis through activity and our brain will work together with our body to adapt and grow in incredible ways!
A Revelation or a Revolution?
I recently watched a fascinating show on PBS that spoke to just this connection concept. The program is called the ‘The Brain Revolution’ and it was educational and outstanding on many levels!
Based on years of clinical research by medical and scientific experts in the field, it spoke to the body-brain connection and how finding balance in our lives will help us not only physically and emotionally, but mentally as well.
(Hmm? This is beginning to sound familiar.)
It addressed neuroplasiticity and the brain’s ability to change its structure and function over time in amazing ways that can potentially benefit us in numerous and positive ways. This fascinating documentary also covered ways to protect the brain as we age by engaging in physical activity. Thus, the body and brain connection!
This was an outstanding program and I’d highly recommend it to anyone who’s interested in health, fitness, science, aging, and staying active to improve their lives – and the lives of others they care about.
I was also pleasantly surprised and truly amazed to find that it related so well to our coaching philosophy and validated our approach from a scientific foundation. This is what ACTIV365 is all about!
How It Works With Our Mission
At ACTIV365 we work with you to explore these dimensions of your overall well-being so you can find balance in your life – both personally and professionally. Creating balance in your life will help you physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
If you’re looking for that motivation to focus on a particular GOAL or increase your ACTIVITY, then look no further. If you need INSPIRATION, guidance or assistance to live your BEST life, then let’s work together to help YOU become the very best version of YOU!
Think about getting the real results you want to have the life you both desire and deserve. What actions are you taking to set those personal or professional goals? How’s it working for you?
In life, we all need help to get to where we want to be, but we don’t often take the steps to get the assistance we need to have the success we want. Of course, there are obstacles for all of us, but identify them, understand them and addressing them are the key to getting past them.
So Ask Yourself: What’s Holding You Back?
The risk in not calling is the risk of not realizing your potential and not becoming the best version of yourself or your business!
Contact us and let us help you thrive instead of just survive. Also, visit the ‘Books’ section of our website to find resources that can help you on your journey.
… And don’t forget to get outside, have some fun and take action to strengthen those inner and outer connections!
To your health!
Cheers,
-Rob
