You're Stronger Than you Think

Check out this excerpt from my latest post on Wild Movement...

You're Stronger Than You Think

Last winter I spent a month living at an animal sanctuary in Costa Rica. This sanctuary is nestled in the heart of a true jungle, along a untamed and wild coast that is home to some of the most diverse creatures on the planet. It is also home to five full grown spider monkeys who eat, climb and live on the sanctuary–and the people who live there.

Spider monkeys are incredible creatures: they are deceivingly smart, incredibly coordinated and surprisingly playful. However, the thing that amazed me the most about these creatures was their strength. Earl, the owner of the sanctuary, told me that a male spider monkey once hung from its tail, ripped his toilet off it’s bolts and threw it out the door of his bedroom. Bad monkey!

This got me thinking. Even though I am five times the size and ten times the weight of these little creatures, there is now way in HELL that I could rip a toilet off it’s bolts. Why am I so weak? Why are we as a species such a bunch of scrawny weaklings? Why is it that monkeys have super human strength while we are left with the strength of a newborn squirrel?  Monkeys have fifteen times more muscle mass than humans relative to their body weight. We are clearly the pansies of the animal kingdom.

When you think about it, the answer is really very obvious. The strength of an animal is determined by their lifestyle. In short: If you spend your days swinging through the trees, and need this strength to survive, over the years you will develop monkey strength. Conversely, If you spend your days eating potato chips and solely exercising your thumbs, you’ll be mad-wimpy. But it’s not quite that simple..

To read more visit: http://www.wildmovement.com/general/youre-stronger-than-you-think/

Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon

Check out this amazing footage by the BBC and Survival international of some of the last remaining uncontacted tribes in the world. Simply amazing!

http://www.uncontactedtribes.org/brazilfootage

Please help protect them by signing the petition!

A lot can be learned from these primitive tribespeople. For information on primal living in todays world as well as fitness, diet and all around health visit: http://www.wildmovement.com/

Human Chameleonism: How to Stay Fit on Vacation

Check out my latest article at WildMovement! Learn how to stay fit, continue to eat right, and not lose all your hard work on vacation!

http://www.wildmovement.com/general/human-chameleonism-how-to-stay-fit-on-vacation/

Make Fire With Rocks!

Wild Movement is all about regaining the ability to move naturally and efficiently in our surroundings as well as developing and a connection with the natural world. It’s about regaining fundamental skills that were common knowledge to our ancestors but are virtually unknown today.

Check out this video on how to make fire with rocks! Pretty cool.

To your health and happiness,

Logan

The Art of Unplugging

Are you suffering from Radio Wave Brain Mush Syndrome?

Stop and look at yourself right now. How many electronic devices do you have on or around you? If you are like most Americans you have a technology addiction. Computers, Ipods, cell phones...  We have invented so many different ways to distract ourselves from what is actually happening in our lives. We are never actually here to experience the moment for what it is. We are always somewhere else.. Hanging out in Twitterland or Facebookville while our lives pass us by. As handy as these devices can be, they complicate our lives, bombard our minds with unnecessary and unreal stress, and are one of the biggest causes of our cultural unhappiness. Imagine if you didn’t use any electronic devices. Imagine if you didn’t feel the need to check your e-mail ten times a day or text and call relentlessly. Life would be so simple. All you would have to do is address situations as the presented themselves. You would be able to live your life fully and uninterrupted. This simplicity can be achieved, even today. By reducing your time spent plugged in, you can create more energy, ease and happiness in your life.....Its time to check yourself into radio wave rehab.

The American society has created the stereotype of the busy american mom, the overworked dad-- and because of this we feel we have to fill these roles. How much of what you do do you do because you feel you should be busy? This condition of constant external stimuli leads to what I call “media overwhelm” which is a feeling that there is too much to watch hear or know and too little time. It’s a self demeaning feeling that I should be keeping up with everything but I just cant. When you think about it, this feeling is completely self created but many people are not aware that they are even suffering from it. This constant distraction has created a society of worry ridden, stressed out people who have lost control of their minds and are suffering because of it.

A busy and complicated life inevitably creates a busy and complicated mind. Just as your life is a reflection of your mental state, your mental state is a reflection of your life and as you probably know, your mental state is the biggest determining factor of your overall happiness. A busy, untamed mind creates unrest, stress and suffering while a clear, calm, and focused mind cultivates peace, ease and happiness. What would happen if you simply didn’t check your email or answer that phone call? If you experiment with unplugging you will learn that nothing will happen. The world will not end, people wont think less of you and you will feel happier and more energized because of it.

How To Unplug

Here are a few tips to reduce destructive stimuli and boost overall happiness.

1. Don't Text. Texting is incredibly time consuming and stress creating. Call or not at all.

2. Check your e-mail no more than three times a day. 

Any more than that is unproductive and unnecessary. 

3. Limit unproductive web surfing. 

Take the time yo would normally spend catching up on your favorite TV shows or celebrity gossip and spend it doing something meaningful.

4. Don’t Watch the News

I know I know.. How can I be a respectful well informed citizen? Truth is, if something happens you’ll hear about it and by refraining from this kind of media you can free up so much time.

5. Ask yourself.. “Am I being busy for the sake of being busy?”

You’ll be surprised how much you do for the lack of something to do.

6. Practice Wild Movement

Exercise and time spent in nature naturally reduces stress, boosts energy and creates the simplicity and mental focus which we know leads to happiness. 

Too much stimuli is destructive and overwhelming, but some is necessary to function in todays world. I know total regression into the simplistic life of a paleolithic human is not possible nor completely desirable but there are lessons to be learned from this kind of life that may just make your fast paced life a bit more peaceful. Begin today by resolving to cut out unnecessary stimuli and busyness and fully experience the one life you have :)

Move. Explore. Discover

Wild Movement