Today, movement/fitness expert Danny Clark joins us to talk about the mental side of fitness/movement and being outdoors. This was a fascinating discussion.

Danny discusses:
-why we need this
-what contemplation is and why its important
-what might get in the way
-education
-science
-ancient Greece
-total focus
-meditation, contemplation, awareness, trance
-and more

Danny's Bio (expert from https://www.movnat.com/danny-clark/): "Throughout his youth Danny was recognized for his exceptional athletic talents. His training in wrestling and judo earned him a Division 1 scholarship to the University of Virginia. An injury abruptly ended his wrestling career, but fortunately instigated a transition into Brazilian jiu jitsu and MMA training. He would go on to win a bronze medal for Team USA at the UWW World Grappling Championships in Krakow, Poland in 2012. All along, Danny has immersed himself in many alternative arts, such as yoga and kettlebell training, in an effort to correct some of the imbalances and wear his body had accumulated from years of heavy physical stress. But nothing had a more profound or long-lasting effect than training first-hand with Erwan Le Corre. He learned that MovNat could heal years of abuse, neglect, and over-specialization. After he received his Level II Certification, he immediately started implementing the MovNat method into his coaching and classes and saw great results. Natural Movement® provided a solid movement, skill, and physical foundation for everyone while fixing many glaring issues of the fitness industry. Danny went on to complete his level III certification and is now a MovNat Master Instructor."


Contact Michael:
1. Email: ccerppodcast@aol.com
2. Education website: https://www.goldams.com
3. Fitness website: https://www.total-human-fitness.com
4. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-gold-2883921/
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1. Twitter/Instagram: EpistemeRx
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Show notes.
1. ""ALL men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves; and above all others the sense of sight. For not only with a view to action, but even when we are not going to do anything, we prefer seeing (one might say) to everything else. The reason is that this, most of all the senses, makes us know and brings to light many differences between things. " -- Aristotle (http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/metaphysics.1.i.html)

2. In the book Galileo Galilei – When the World Stood Still, Atle Naess wrote:

“Galileo’s radical renewal sprang, nevertheless, from the Aristotelian mind set, as it was taught at the Jesuits’ Collegio Romano: human reason has a basic ability to recognize and understand the objects registered by the senses. The objects are real. They have properties that can be perceived, and then ‘further processed’ according to logical rules. These logical concepts are also real (if not in exactly the same way as the physical objects).”


3. A quote of Galileo himself that shows the importance of Aristotle to science and all human reasoning, and that identifies a basic principle of reason and logic: they are based on the evidence of the senses.

"I should even think that in making the celestial material alterable, I contradict the doctrine of Aristotle much less than do those people who still want to keep the sky inalterable; for I am sure that he never took its inalterability to be as certain as the fact that all human reasoning must be placed second to direct experience."

From the Second Letter of Galileo Galilei to Mark Welser on Sunspots, p. 118 of Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo, translated by Stillman Drake, (c) 1957 by Stillman Drake, published by Doubleday Anchor Books, Doubleday & Co., Garden City, New York.

4. "Here is a lesson that we’re going to be taught again and again in the coming years: Most animals are not just animals. They’re also collections of microbes. If you really want to understand animals, you’ll also have to understand the world of microbes inside them. In other words, zoology is ecology." -- Ed Yong, “Gut Bacteria Allows Insect Pest to Foil Farmers.” ©2013 by National Geographic Society (as used on a Fall 2020 PSAT test)

5. Epigenetics
i. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics
ii. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/epigenetics
iii. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1392256/
iv. Reshaping the immune system: Moises Velazquez-Manoff at TEDxCibeles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoOscroun5A
v. The epidemic of chronic disease and understanding epigenetics | Kent Thornburg | TEDxPortland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReCvreRPdeY
vi. Epigenetics & Personal Health: Can We Control Our Own Future? | Matt Riemann | TEDxVeniceBeach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ3o5X2j3kY
vii. Move Your DNA - Because You Are How You Move by Katy Bowman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVRg193Wa-M

6. The Deepest Well by Dr. Nadine Harris: https://www.amazon.com/Deepest-Well-Long-Term-Childhood-Adversity-ebook/dp/B01N7HZ73B

7. The Autism Revolution by Dr. Martha Herbert and Karen Weintraub

8. Evolution, symbiosis and cooperation
i. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiosis
ii. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-operation_(evolution)

9. "The Median Isn't the Message" by Stephen Jay Gould
i. https://people.umass.edu/biep540w/pdf/Stephen%20Jay%20Gould.pdf
ii. https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/gould


10. Contemplation: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contemplation
i. "concentration on spiritual things as a form of private devotion"
ii. "an act of considering with attention"


11. Trance: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trance
i. "a sleeplike state (as of deep hypnosis) usually characterized by partly suspended animation with diminished or absent sensory and motor activity"
ii. "a state of profound abstraction or absorption"

12. Meditation: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meditation
i. "a discourse intended to express its author's reflections or to guide others in contemplation"
ii. "the act or process of meditating"

13. Meditate: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meditate
i. "to engage in contemplation or reflection"
ii. "\to engage in mental exercise (such as concentration on one's breathing or repetition of a mantra) for the purpose of reaching a heightened level of spiritual awareness"

14. "The Greek word that usually gets translated as “happiness” is eudaimonia, and like most translations from ancient languages, this can be misleading. The main trouble is that happiness (especially in modern America) is often conceived of as a subjective state of mind, as when one says one is happy when one is enjoying a cool beer on a hot day, or is out “having fun” with one’s friends. For Aristotle, however, happiness is a final end or goal that encompasses the totality of one’s life. It is not something that can be gained or lost in a few hours, like pleasurable sensations. It is more like the ultimate value of your life as lived up to this moment, measuring how well you have lived up to your full potential as a human being." From https://www.pursuit-of-happiness.org/history-of-happiness/aristotle/

15. MovNat announcements
i. The MovNat In Schools program
ii. Lifestyle events (to be announced on the MovNat website 15 Nov 2021)
-Vic Verdier
-Tom Brown III
-Roary Kaih
iii. MovNat L3
Colorado Sept 2022 L3
With Nate Smith, Final Frontier Ranch




Picture and bio courtesy Danny Clark.