The idea that robust physical health enables strength in other arenas of your life dates to the ancients: Seneca and other Stoic philosophers wrote about the interconnectedness of sound body and mind. The physical work of building muscle can give you a feeling of flourishing and of agency. Today the same idea drives the scientific literature behind weight lifting as an effective intervention for post-traumatic stress. In an age when virtual technology and society conspire to divorce mind from body and silo us from others, simply moving together in the same space can remind us of our shared humanity — what the psychologist Dacher Keltner, building on Émile Durkheim, likes to call "collective effervescence." As humans, we're built to move; as social creatures, it means something to move together."
Bonnie Tsui
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/opinion/muscles-bodies-fathers-daughters.html?smid=threads-nytopinion
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