What Is A Sedentary Lifestyle?
“Sedentary behaviour includes activities that involve little or no movement such as sitting at a computer, lying on the couch, driving, etc.”
Humans these days are often accused of being ‘sedentary’ beings. Sure, if we stand in comparison to our nomadic ancestors or even those who live a pastoral life in the modern world, we certainly come out as sedentary. Some people bring it down to how much we walk in a day, but it’s a lot more complicated than that.
A sedentary lifestyle cannot be tracked by the amount of activity we’re involved in during a day, but rather the lack of activity we clock in during the day. It’s about how much we lounge, as opposed to how much we walk and the idea is that humans these days spend a whole lot of time doing pretty much nothing on a physical level.
Physical activity involves movement, including standing and strolling. Sedentary behaviour, on the other hand includes activities that involve little or no movement such as sitting at a computer, lying on the couch, driving, etc. Because the two ways of spending time are so different, someone can exercise regularly and still engage in a great deal of sedentary behaviour. Indeed, it is quite a common phenomenon in modern society.
Multiple Health Concerns
Long bouts of sitting are associated with multiple health concerns, including increased risks for weight gain, diabetes, cholesterol problems and premature death, even if you exercise. These days, we have many trackers that tell us how many steps we take per day and we have trainers to scientifically guide us through the activity of exercise.
However, none of this may count if you simply don’t get up from your desk every now and then, move around a bit and make sure that you do this every day.
What It Means To Possess Integrity
“Though certain learning theories may suggest that integrity may be taught or learnt, it’s the cognitive process of individuals that helps them to be what they want to be”
Understanding Its Meaning
The dictionary meaning of integrity defines it as the quality of being unimpaired, adherence to moral and ethical practices or a state of being whole. All these qualities indicate a very functional and realistic process which helps individuals to know themselves better.
Integrity for many of us is an extremely pious term. The degree to which a person possesses integrity and exercises it, also differs and the value it holds comes with many intricacies of the human thought process. Integrity is an integral part of one’s personality.
Taught Or Learnt?
Integrity has its origin in Latin, from the words integritas and integer. Individuals with self-knowledge demonstrate integrity in their behaviours. The process comes in with a whole lot of trust, responsibility, respect which one has for oneself and extended to the society as a whole. Though certain learning theories may suggest that integrity may be taught or learnt, it’s the cognitive process of an individuals that helps them be what they want to be.
Type And Trait Theory
Different people may have different levels of integrity, depending upon their capacities or the stimuli they are exposed to. We come across individuals who do not place much importance in matters of virtues, moral values or authenticity. This lack of faith in these basic premises reveals that they are not integrated with their own sell.
Personality theorists suggest several reasons like the type and trait theory approaches, which suggests that individuals low on integrity have a common set of characteristics and habitual response patterns which make them behave in a way which harms or hurts others. Trait theories suggest that individuals low on personal integration may have unsocial traits at the core.
Psychoanalytical Theories
Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytical theories on the other hand, talk about three distinctions to personality called the ‘Id’ which primarily works on the pleasure principle, ‘ego’ – the executive function of a person and the ‘super ego’ – the conscience of a person. So, usually the collaboration of the first two and lower levels of the third may make a person display less or zero Integrity.
There are many more psychological theories which may be interpreted for such behaviour, but it biological theories are to taken into account, there is an indication towards brain function and behaviour. However, knowing oneself and integrating oneself with the extended world, is very much required for living a life of integrity and meaning.