2) Preparing: I made this lunch in a semi squat position, testing and challenging my posture, range of motion and squating ability as I cut, rinsed, plated and place in the garbage via squats and lunges the various delicious bits of my lunch (A collard green leaf with Dulse, ground flax, avocado, mushroom, sunflower sprouts, garden fresh salad mix, red pepper, garlic and horseradish mustard with some fresh sprouts soaking for tomorrow's salad)
3) Reading into it: As I ate my lunch I was reading Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell... 2 years ago I would have been watching something pointless on TV or a movie perhaps. Instead I was reading about an ingenious experiment by two Sociologists (Cohen and Nisbett) and their proof that cultural heritage dictated how people would respond to various social situations as stimulated by trigger words and other situations to be tested later based on those words.
4) Being my own Scientist: As I type I am back in my squat and typing on my laptop, raised up on a ledge for ergonomics and examining the last hours of my life and experiences not because that is what I have always done but rather because I am consciously working to change my culture, belief systems- my very mind.
I was not born eating, moving or thinking this way- it was not my 'culture'. I have sought it out and worked hard to find people, information and practices towards helping me realize my dreams and aspirations of helping people become their own scientists and attaining my own optimal health in the process.
It all comes down to your 'culture'. However, I mean this in the most minimalist sense. It is not up to your culture at large but your internal culture as gauged and created by the emotions, thoughts and chemical signals floating around your body and cells much like the ideal cultures needed to grow specific bacteria and increasingly actual human parts for transplant.
You are in control of your emotions, perceptions and realities, for today and for the tomorrow's of your dreams and goals. You were not born into this reality and internal culture however. Over the the first 6 years of your existence and even before that, in your mothers body as an egg, she was preparing you for existence by creating her own internal culture to deal as best she could with her external culture. You have been built at conscious and more fundamentally, at subconscious levels to deal with this new reality of your making.
You are in complete control.
Tap into the feelings around the way you move, eat and think, be your own scientist and seek happiness and satisfaction in your choices. Seek to find your dreams, goals and choose to stay well.
Smile and feel the rush of awe and excitement in realizing that you are in control. Take the any feeling of fear in this as soon as it comes up and tap into it, seeking to find new words and descriptions of the situations to spin that concern into excitement. Find the positive energy around and inside of you and create your internal culture for success, for body confidence.
Love yourself.
Love your potential.
Love the opportunity to set goals that you are excited to work towards every day!