Exercise returns your body to its normal equilibrium by releasing natural chemicals that build up during the stress response.
Exercise can improve your resilience to stress in various ways. Some of its benefits are listed below. Exercise performs the following functions:
- Releases endorphins into your bloodstream creating a sense of well being.
- Decrease muscle tension caused by emotional stress and produces a relaxation response in your mind a well as in your body.
- Increases alpha-wave activity in the brain, thus allowing you to clear your mind so you can focus and concentrate more easily.
- Rids your body of toxins.
- Improves your overall flexibility and posture, thus decreasing any spinal stiffness or pain caused by stress.
- Relieves indigestion and chronic constipation caused by stress.
- Lessens fatigue and improve overall energy level.
- Combats insomnia caused by stress and produces more restful sleep.
- Provides natural outlets for your daily pressures and enables you to better cope with the stress of modern day busy life.
- Strengthens your heart and lungs, thus improving your overall physical fitness level and health.
- Increases your resting metabolism or energy expenditure and help you to lose weight thus, you both look and feel good and can shed a negative self image caused by stress.
- Helps you realize that if you can change your attitude and behavior toward exercise, then you can change you ability to manage the stress in your life.
- Improves blood flow to the brain that nourishes it with needed oxygen and helps eliminates waste products.
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