Exercise is Always Good

Taking the short view or the long view, exercise is a major boost to the body and mind.  In the short term, it gives you a break.  A break from sitting too long or thinking too hard.  By getting up and stretching or walking even five minutes, you "shift gears" and then start feeling better mentally and physically.  Think of recess as a kid in grade school.  When that bell rang, you might have been one of the students who ran like the wind outside to play.  All that focusing and concentrating and sitting still was a tough job.  After a while, we are not creative and do not think as clearly as we could if we took intermittent physical breaks.

Exercise is the best prescription for what ails you.  Truly.  No dangerous side effects other than feeling better, more flexibility, more stamina.  Physical therapy works this way.  The "prescription" is literally exercise--in a very specific way--in order to heal. 

During these "safer at home" times of covid, breaking up the tension of the day by a little gardening, a quick dog walk or a full body stretch for two minutes is all it takes to feeling better in your body and mind and then move on to something else with a renewed attitude.

People who exercise (however you define it) have more body confidence and body positivity (look what I can do) than people who don't.  That confidence then affects the decisions you make about life--food--how we want to "show up" in the world.

Some say your body is a temple--meaning respect it--worship IN it--by being mindful of moving more often so that you feel better more often so that you do better more often so that your life matters more often.  That's a good prescription!