How Exercise Improves Your Psychological State
There are many strategies you can use to improve your life on a physical and psychological level. However, it is easier to talk about how good they are than to actually use them in everyday life, as they require you to change your routines. You need to change the routines that you have created yourself and got used to over time to improve your psychological state.
It is of course a good idea to exercise, but how does this affect your psychological state? Why is it important to set aside time for this? What is the point of going and training after work instead of going home and cleaning, cooking, resting or maybe studying a language? You do not feel at all to exercise. It’s dark and cold outside and there are too many people in the gym.
People talk about physical and mental fatigue as if they were two different things, but this is not true. When you exercise, something interesting happens: the cells in your body begin to oxygenate. When you exercise, it is as if you are airing your body, just as you do with your home when you open your windows.
Of course, it is easy to do this during the summer, but during the winter it is a completely different matter. It’s not so nice when the cold air flows through the rooms. But how do you feel afterwards? It feels much better right?
It is good for the cells of the nervous system that the body moves and burns calories by running, jumping or walking. Exercise also has another great advantage, and that is that it brings together the mind and the soul. It has to do with communication. If you talk to a person who trains often but is temporarily injured and asks what the person misses most, he will probably mention the communication with his body.
If a week or two has passed without training, the person will probably feel that there is no real contact with the body anymore. The only thing that will be felt is the pain, and the communication that the person has with the body will have deteriorated.
What you achieve through training is therefore a better communication with your body. You do not have to be in pain to realize that you have less energy. Furthermore, it is not so easy to explain this phenomenon to people who have not trained for years. These people will not remember what it is like to communicate with the body, so it will therefore not be something they are missing.
However, it is worthwhile to improve that communication for your psychological state…
Exercise also has another mental benefit that consists of two aspects. First we have the social aspect. Regardless of whether it is about individual training or a sport, it is very easy to meet people who do similar things. Real people who do not sit behind a screen. People who can motivate you through sports or with the help of other life goals. People who will undoubtedly become a social support.
The second aspect is that by training you take time for yourself. It is a time you can use to reflect or simply avoid your worries. When you are exercising, you will not worry that you are not on time, that the food is burning or how something you do may make you look bad. Exercising means that you are free for a while.
You will probably not feel mentally uncomfortable either. When you train, you experience how who you are (or who you want to be) goes in line with what you do. There are no threats or problems, only challenges. The challenge of scoring goals or running a little faster. Everything becomes so much easier and your mind will thank you for this freedom.
An indirect advantage of training is that you become more orderly and gain more discipline. Regular exercise will make you feel better, and it will also give you a feeling that you are now experienced. It is as if you are telling yourself that you can actually achieve the things you have taken on. Such a message will then strengthen your self-esteem and also help you achieve other goals.
You may notice this in many people who have given up. For example, you can read it in how they express themselves. They do not set goals because they feel unable to meet them, and they end up mentally ending up in a form of inner anarchy where negativity constantly dominates.
This situation arises because they only make random decisions when they set goals and even when they finally decide on something, they do not believe much in these goals in any case. To counteract this mentality, exercise is always the best medicine. Exercise will help you with your psychological state and you will be able to spend your extra energy in a positive way.
Exercise gives you more emotional energy that you can use to achieve your goals!
