5 Lessons I Learned From Walking 15-20k Steps A Day

Five surprising lessons I learned (and one I was SHOCKED by). Plus, thoughts on if I would ever do it again.

Last spring, I came to the realization that my body was bored.

It's ironic to say because my life felt anything but boring. I actually would have welcomed some boredom into my life. Yet, my body was bored. I only know this because I study the human body, and I know that the body doesn't always react to your environment like your mind does. 

It's easy to overlook, and most do. You fight mental and emotional exhaustion so much that you overlook the fact that your body just isn't tired. It's bored.

The imbalance in mental and physical energy is one of the leading reasons for sleep problems. When you deplete your mental energy but have plenty of unspent energy, your body has trouble shifting into sleep.

This imbalance can open the door to many other problems, like anxiety or feeling unsettled, which most people assume happen because of exhaustion but are actually the root of too much physical energy.

Like all things in your biology, your body is looking for balance.

To function well, your physical energy must match (or be similar) to your mental energy. Balancing them can make everything feel better.

Unfortunately, most people experience mental and emotional fatigue, which can appear as total body fatigue, but it's not. When your body still has energy, and when it has unspent energy for prolonged periods, it becomes bored.

I was here, living with a bored body and a spent mind. To fix this, I decided I needed to push my body, not pull back into more rest.

My body needed required this movement challenge.

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