Move Quotes

“Crucially, though, he recently found that putting your full body weight on your feet while you are exercising provides an added boost. In 2017 Greene reported that putting weight on your feet compresses the major arteries of the feet, increasing turbulence in the blood and increasing blood flow to the brain by a further 10–15 percent.”
― Caroline Williams, Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free

“When you get the urge to do a cartwheel in the supermarket, say something inappropriate in a meeting or run a red light, this is the part of the brain that jumps in and reminds you not to be so stupid. It’s a useful feature in all kinds of situations and saves us a lot of time and potential embarrassment, but the downside is that it does the same job for ideas, shutting down thoughts that are a bit out there but which might just work.”
― Caroline Williams, Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free

“That the past feels more distant as we physically move forwards is important, because a major risk factor for depression is the tendency to ruminate, getting stuck in a loop of over-analyzing things you’ve said, done or experienced in the past while getting steadily more despondent. Physically moving forwards can help prevent this by making the bad stuff seem further behind you.”
― Caroline Williams, Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free

“The downside is that walking isn’t quite enough to bring on a high unless it leaves you seriously breathless. The feeling-great part only really kicks in after an intense run at a pace where it’s difficult to hold a conversation.”
― Caroline Williams, Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free

“As a result, our biological baseline is to be on our feet, moving and thinking at the same time. If we don’t do it, our brains make the sensible decision to save energy by cutting brain capacity. In better news, when we get on our feet and move, it primes the brain to be alert and to learn.”
― Caroline Williams, Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free

“But research coming from the fields of evolutionary biology, physiology and neuroscience is all pointing to the fact that walking a lot, and running a little, made our species what it is today. If we don’t do it enough, we risk losing our mental and emotional edge.”
― Caroline Williams, Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free

“It’s worth a quick aside at this point to remember that evolution doesn’t work with an endgame in mind. Our minds and bodies didn’t get to be the way they are today because evolution had a plan to make us the cleverest, most self-aware species on the planet. We got here because the changes that brought us to this point must have provided some kind of survival advantage when they first appeared. Each of them had to be useful from the start, and they stuck around because they continued to supply benefits.”
― Caroline Williams, Move: How the New Science of Body Movement Can Set Your Mind Free

“The brain evolved not for us to think but to allow us to move – away from danger and towards rewards.”
― Caroline Williams, Move!: The New Science of Body Over Mind