Posterior Pooling and Your Personal Vigor Quotient
One common activity here in the USA is sitting: sitting in front of the television set, sitting as we surf the Internet, sitting in our cars, sitting, sitting, sitting. Add gravity to too much sitting and we get posterior pooling. Excess blood builds up in our butts; it does not circulate as designed to and we lose energy.
According to the A.C. Nielsen Co., the average American watches more than 4 hours of TV each day. A 65-year life equals nine years glued to the tube?!
A recent Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society (SIQSS) research project found the average Internet user spends 3 hours per day online. Now, while most of us do not consider ourselves “average”, if we are honest, we will admit we spend a lot of time in front of the TV and surfing the Internet.
What to do to boost your personal vigor? Several years ago, I had just arrived home from a two-day road trip speaking at a conference. Feeling tired and listless, I walked into the house and plopped on the couch planning to spend the next few hours “resting” in front of the TV.
Luckily, my then seven year old son, Alex, was in the room and said, “Dad, if you’re tired, don’t sit down, go outside and run around the house. That’s how you get energy!”
What followed was amazing. I went outside with Alex and we ran around the house together two or three times. It took maybe three minutes and I was totally energized. Running had pumped the blood pooling in my posterior into other critical parts of my body, nourishing my body, and energizing me.
So, when you are tired, don’t plop. Instead, walk, run, dance, hug someone, do something physical. It will energize you.
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