Movement Practice to Strengthen Your Mind-Body Connection | Ido Portal

Discipline is very important, but it's similar to the wall in learning to do a handstand. If you use the wall one way, where you're all the time pushing yourself off of the wall, try to catch your handstand, you become reliant on the wall. But there is a different approach. We can use the wall, but pull off of it, which comes from the other end, from our hands. from the connection to the ground.

That does not necessitate a wall. This is the correct way to use discipline. You should use it as a scaffolding, as a way to get things going like write that book. But inside the process you must make sure you don't lean hard into it. You don't leave everything for it to dictate.

And you bring some playfulness, some relaxation, some deep choice. I want to do this. Welcome to the Huberman Lab Podcast, where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life. I'm Andrew Huberman and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. My guest today is Ito Portal.

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