Our Health and Wellness focus this week comes from American jazz and traditional pop singer, Tony Bennett, who passed away on July 21, 2023.
While describing a low point in his 70+ year musical career, Tony Bennett gave credit to pianist, Bill Evans, for helping to turn around his career:
“Just go with truth and beauty, and forget the rest“… Tony said that Bill told him before they shared a performance.
Truth and beauty became the basic premise for all of Tony Bennett’s performances.
Truth, Beauty, health and fitness now lead us to English poet John Keats (1795-1821) and his classic poem…Ode On A Grecian Urn, with famous ending lines…”Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty – that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
The lesson for us and our bodies is that there is no one perfect form.
We all born with an original shape, a beautiful form, a physique tendency for which our bodies were designed.
In the 1940’s psychologist Dr. William Sheldon characterized our body shapes into 3 main “somatotypes” or physical frames:
1. Ectomorph – generally thin, narrow, linear with not much muscle.
2. Endomorph – soft, round, tend to pudgy or overweight.
3. Mesormorph – broader shoulders, narrow waist, muscular, compact-generally athletic.
Some of Dr. Sheldon’s characteristics have been abandoned as being too subjective – however, his basic observation is accepted as descriptive of human body types.
Truth and Beauty in our bodies becomes evident as we tie together Tony Bennett, John Keats, Grecian Urns, and William Sheldon.
We all were born with an original shape, a tendency, that is just right for our own health, fitness and wellness.
Let that original body become our inspiration. We can find it. We can attain it. WF!
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