Exercise emotional benefits

Exercise is one of those treatments we physicians love, especially when we re dealing with depression, because it has both physical and emotional benefits. In other words, your health improves—and you feel better, too. 

But even when we focus entirely on the brain s chemistry, ignoring the many mental, emotional, and spiritual aspects of depression, medications often aren t the best way of rebalancing our hormones and biochemicals. Sometimes a change in diet and exercise habits can be equally effective, with no risk of side effects and with lifelong benefits to physical and mental health. Likewise, the approaches I describe in Step Three of this book have helped many of my patients overcome depression, both in response to specific causes or as part of a lifetime of unhappiness. 

Cindy benefited enormously from the kapha balancing techniques IVe described. The physical interventions—diet, supplements, exercise, and using the light box—boosted her energy and her mood, opening her to new possibilities in her life and to new approaches to self-care. They were the gateway to the spiritual and emotional balancing she under-... 

Da Vinci s physical training system had three distinctive components, including aerobic conditioning, strength training, and flexibility exercises, each with a different goal and all carefully balanced for maximum benefits. Aerobic conditioning was intended to improve awareness, emotional stability, and stamina. Also, it was supposed to prevent arteriosclerosis and... 

Tobacco use is the most common preventable cause of death in the United States. About half of all smokers will die from smoking-related problems (NIH, 2011). Quitting provides immediate health benefits that increase the longer the person abstains from tobacco use. To successfully stop smoking, a person must often use a multifaceted approach involving medication, lifestyle changes, exercise, and emotional support. 

As in this case, stress can be the major contributing factor. Having the mother perform regular stretching exercises at home has a physical benefit and an emotional one. Emotions are very much reciprocal with musculoskeletal problems, each affecting the other. 

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