By using my move as an opportunity to hide the more painful and shameful parts of myself, I engaged in a physical cut-off because I was geographically (and thus physically) cut off from all that I believed burdened me and held me back.
If he and others refused to do physical labor, they were cut off from the steel machetes, axes, and other metal goods that they had come to depend on.
Until her brave decision to crack open the case against her captor, Sarah has coped by turning inward--she has cocooned herself in her New York apartment, which serves as a haven of sameness and control, and has cut off physical contact with other humans.
The rate of declared physical activity was above what had been expected [ 20] although a direct comparison is limited by the cut off for physical activity used in our study ("at least 60 min/week" and not 150 min/week as recommended to have an impact on disease recurrence [ 21]).
They found that the brain processes loneliness in the same location as physical pain, and that being cut off from others can be so painful that prisoners are prone to extreme actions (such as self-mutilation and extreme violence) in order to connect with those outside their cells.
Participants were divided into physically active or inactive based on total physical activity cut-off scores of 1680 METs minutes per week (60 minutes per day × 7 days per week × 4 METs), corresponding to 1 hour of daily moderate-intensity physical activity.
The goal for physical activity was set at 23 Ex or more per week, with 3 MET of physical activity set as the minimum (cut off).
But with the programme closed and the pills cut off, Cross faces physical agony and a return to the low-IQ purgatory.
I felt completely cut off from the physical world.
Table 2 shows characteristics of men with low and high physical fitness (cut-off at median=32) among men without history of low back pain/injury.
For physical activity cut-off values, we used three categories (low, medium and high activity) based on tertiles of total METs-min per week, METs-min per week from vigorous-intensity physical activity, and METs-min per week from moderate intensity physical activity.
