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So what's a quick way that the person listening right now can feel the effect of gravity on their body?
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So we're sitting here together right now, right?
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We're at a desk.
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Even as I'm talking to you.
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Sitting is not a natural position.
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Well, I mean, we do it, but we're not designed to sit all day.
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Yes.
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Right?
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We're designed to be up and moving, running, hiking, whatever it is.
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Right now, even as I'm talking to you, I can feel myself slumped over a little bit.
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Yes.
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You can feel like as you're sitting, even if you kind of try to sit upright, you can feel pinchy like in your midsection.
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Like, you know, you're crunching the midsection.
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So if anyone's listening now and maybe in their car, maybe sitting down, in a chair, you just think about right now, feel the pressure of your body.
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in the chair and think about how that force is translating through your body.
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And if you're kind of hunched over or looking at a phone or something, what happens is your upper back moves forward.
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Your shoulders move forward and then your chest thorax moves down.
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The diaphragm moves down and then the abdomen compresses just a little bit.
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you've got this sack of potatoes in your belly that we call the gut.
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And it normally actually hangs when you're upright and that opens it up.
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And when you sit upright and you think about the muscles between - Just listening to you, I've noticed like I'm going from my great -grandmother's hunchback look to,
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okay, shoulders back, you know, like point out - Literally think about the muscles between your shoulders.
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How often do you engage those actively?
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Like really engage those muscles.
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in the mirror, I'm like, oh my God, my posture.
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Okay, shoulders back.
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- Well, that's it, you know.
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So you can see it in the mirror.
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And when you contract, what happens is the diaphragm and the chest moves up and the abdomen opens up, And it's better for digestion, for movement in the belly,
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and generally for your overall mechanism to be standing up straight.
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It's much better for your inner mechanisms too, the pumps and tubes inside.
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So as you're listening, if you just caught yourself slouching, or if you've been walking and you even felt your shoulders forward, and even as you're walking,
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you're a little hunched, just noticing that is a way to notice the pull of gravity pulling you toward the ground.
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Yeah.
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think a little bit about the back and the spine and keeping yourself upright.
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Well, what's already starting to
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go pow pow pow in my brain as i'm as i'm really taking in what you're saying
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is this is an entirely different way
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to think about posture and health because i've always just thought about the fact that
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I should just have good posture just because I should have good posture, but I've never thought about it.
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as you need to build better posture because
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if you don't gravity's always going to be there to make
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you slouch to make you look down to make you slump in your chair
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and then your poor organs are smushed like the bread at the bottom of a grocery bag that's good analogy
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and so Thinking about it like, it's not even about good posture.
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It's that developing that strength and that awareness is how you work.
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against the gravity that's pulling you down is that right absolutely and as we'll see i mean this is the basis of longevity.
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It's being stronger.
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It's being stronger of mind and body.
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What are everyday red flags?
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that For you, Dr. Spiegel, are like, you need to change your relationship with gravity.
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- Yeah, I mean, these are everyday common things.
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We talked about low back pain already, for example.
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feeling dizzy when you stand up too quickly, feeling lightheaded.
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having chronic pain, feeling exhausted, feeling mentally down, feeling like you're falling.
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Literally or even metaphorically, like you're getting gut feelings in your belly when you're anxious.
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All of these are signs of what I call gravity intolerance.
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And it's easy though for doctors to say, oh, well, that is disease A or that is disease B.
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And that's how we think about the human body.
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But I think about it as all of the systems working in unison to stand up to this planet.
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And we can diagnose gravity and tolerance through all of these different types of symptoms.
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What's amazing is there's so much literature that literally how you hold your body helps how you feel on the inside.
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You feel more buoyant.
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You feel lighter when you stand up straight.
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So think about when you are in a cathedral.
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Okay.
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And the ceiling is high.
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Yes.
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You feel glorious.
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You feel heavenly the spires point to the heavens.
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When you come into Grand Central Station in New York, you look up and think this is beautiful.
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But when you come into Penn Station, it's been said that it's like you scuttle into the city like a rat.
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These low ceilings, it's not glorious.
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It's not amazing.
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We have a neuropsychological love of expansive space, the heavens.
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Even in our language, we talk about how up is good.
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I'm feeling high.
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I'm feeling down on my luck.
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These are not just figures of speech.
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These are not just metaphors.
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That's true because emotions can be like heavy.
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Heavy.
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People speak of the heaviness, the literal heaviness of something like depression on the body itself.
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It's an existential attribute of our neurophysiology that we love to have being in expansive, beautiful worlds.
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And we do not love being in contracted, small spaces.

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このビデオでは、座っていることの危険性について話されています。座ることは自然な姿勢ではなく、体が健康的に機能するためには動き回ることが重要です。スピーカーは、自分自身の姿勢に気をつけ、自分の体にどのように重力が影響を与えるかを理解することで、姿勢の改善や健康の維持に役立つことを示しています。特に、英語を学ぶ際にも、この知識は自分の発音やコミュニケーション能力を高めるために役立ちます。

日常コミュニケーションのためのトップ5フレーズ

  • 「座ることは自然なポジションではありません。」 - 自然な姿勢を意識することの重要性。
  • 「姿勢を良くするために筋肉を使う必要があります。」 - 身体の意識を高めるためのアプローチ。
  • 「重力の影響を感じてみてください。」 - 環境との相互作用を認識する。
  • 「姿勢を正すことは健康に良いです。」 - 健康的な習慣の確立。
  • 「自分の発音を改善するために、声に出してみてください。」 - 英語の発音を良くする方法。

ステップバイステップのシャドーイングガイド

このビデオから得た情報を基に、英語学習者が自分の発音を向上させるための具体的な方法を探ります。シャドーイングを行う際のポイントは以下の通りです:

  1. ビデオを何度も観る:まずは内容を理解するために、ビデオを数回視聴しましょう。
  2. スクリプトに目を通す:トランスクリプトを読み、重要なフレーズを習得します。
  3. 音声を模倣する:ネイティブスピーカーの発音やリズムを意識しながら、声に出してみましょう。このプロセスは「shadowspeak」として知られ、英語の発音を良くする上で非常に効果的です。
  4. 自己評価を行う:自分の声を録音し、ネイティブの話し方と比較します。どの部分が異なるのか認識することが重要です。
  5. 日常使いに挑戦する:学んだフレーズを日常生活で使用し、コミュニケーションの中で自然に話せるように練習します。

この方法を繰り返すことで、英語でのシャドーイング能力が向上し、より流暢に話せるようになります。発音や表現力を強化するために、楽しみながら実践してみてください。

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文型動画での表現
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係しているI've noticed · i've always just thought · I've never thought
受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てるare smushed · been said

シャドーイングとは?英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング(Shadowing)は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的:ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影(shadow)」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

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