Endurance Redefined: Phase 4
(Michelle “Mama Bear” Lajoie-3 years out from a hip replacement.)
High Agency Endurance
Our goal at The Distance Project is to build high agency training programs.
Agency to age with your strength, power, and potential to smile at the dawn of each new year intact.
Agency to develop your body, and your mind, like they are your canvas to create a self.
I’m not just talking cosmetically here-every scar is a work of art.
Agency to become what you aspire to be.
This is the quality that endurance requires if endurance is an act of freedom…
Endurance Redefined: Block 3
Every runner knows the pain of injury. It’s far deeper than tissue, nerves, and bone. It’s the pain of a portal closing.
The portal is your access point for flow.
The term flow was coined by the Hungarian-American psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihaly a state of timeless immersion, energized focus, and harmonious engagement with your body, mind, and environment.
In this talk Mihaly describes growing up during World War 2 and seeing the existential crisis that the war caused for many adults who had their lives disrupted entirely.
“I grew up in Europe and World War 2 caught…
Lessons in Trust: The Role of Educational Leadership During a Respiratory Pandemic
By David J Bidler
This school year is going to be hard. Whether you are teaching online, or returning to the classroom, the stakes have been raised to unprecedented heights.
Within the complexities and challenges of the Fall 2020 school year a more subtle problem runs a serious risk of being overlooked.
The most valuable link in the entire learning process is in jeopardy.
This link is trust.
I work with students of all ages through our nonprofit organization, Physiology First. …
Physiology First: A New and Necessary Approach to Stress and Anxiety Education
By David J Bidler
(David J Bidler presenting the science of stress and anxiety management at a professional development training for teachers in Hoboken, New Jersey.)
Imagine this…
A new line of autonomous cars is released into the marketplace. They are running smoothly-at first.
Suddenly, several models experience a glitch.
Before long, over a quarter of these A.I powered automobiles are experiencing the same technical problem.
Engineers are dispatched onto the scene. …
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What Our Masks Revealed: How Covering our Faces is Uncovering a Deeper Health Problem in America.
by David J Bidler
As a nation dons masks to protect against the spread of COVID-19 a potentially greater health concern is being uncovered.
Most of us can’t breathe to begin with.
Covering the nose and mouth with a thin layer of fabric has caused reports of lightheadedness, nausea, headaches, anxiety, and panic.
To understand why this phenomena occurs-and what it reflects-we need to understand how human respiration works.
We breathe in oxygen.
We breathe out carbon dioxide.
Prior to being exhaled as a…
There are many reasons that a hot dog cart is not like a grammar school.
One is small and made of metal. It is used to distribute steaming links of mystery meat to people too busy to ask questions.
The other is larger and packs kids and teachers into an enclosed space for 7 hours at a time.
As we prepare to reintegrate into our communities following a 2 month quarantine due to COVID-19 it is important to recognize when one thing is not like another.
Places are different from one another.
People are different as well.
Which people should…
Stress Solutions for a Remote Workforce: A digital toolkit from Breathe to Perform
By David J Bidler
If you’re reading this, the chances are that your life just got flipped upside down.
I know mine has.
As I sit down to write this article we are more than one month into a national quarantine due to COVID-19. Businesses are closed indefinitely. Busy offices are quiet and empty. Millions of us are sitting in living rooms and working from laptops while trying to make sense of a strange new world.
We build systems for success and create routines for productivity. We…
By David J. Bidler
“When there’s chaos outside, we must create order within.” — Adam Robinson
We are a nation in quarantine. Our routines have been disrupted. Our social ties have been reduced to Zoom meetings. Our lives have been turned entirely upside down.
We are facing a chaotic upheaval of our normal lives.
Chaos outside can cause chaos within us.
Stress hormones rise and heart rates increase. Our stomachs ache. We perspire. We begin to feel anxious.
Our bodies reflect the sudden changes in the world by changing-at times chaotically-in accordance.
Chaos both internally and externally, however, is a…
Stress Solutions for Teachers: A Digital Toolkit
by David J. Bidler
If you’re reading this, the chances are that your life just got flipped upside down.
You are working to take a craft that you’ve perfected in the classroom and scale it onto Zoom or another online learning portal.
You’re learning on the fly while working to teach students who are reeling from transition themselves.
The camaraderie of other faculty members and the social infrastructure of a school simply can’t be recreated online.
These are challenging times to do a challenging job.
This toolkit won’t change that.
What we aim…
Breathe To Perform
Breathe to Perform helps to improve health, fitness, and performance through better breathing. Professional development services for workplaces and teams.
