How Exercise Can Help Relieve Your Anxiety
The many mental health benefits associated with moving out of your head and into your body
Anxiety plucks you out of reality and pushes you into a fast-thinking, dimly lit corner of your mind.
For some, anxiety feels like getting lost in an alleyway in Gotham, full of shadowy creatures with questionable intentions — a state of intense fear. For others, it feels like walking through the halls of your high school naked — a state of intense vulnerability. For some others, it feels like a blurry rush of uncontrollable, intense energy —a state that is unpredictable.
Take back control
Anxiety has the predatory advantage of abstractness. In all its shapelessness, it seems bigger than the tangible world around you. It can feel overwhelming, all-consuming, unbeatable, bigger than you, kid.
When you feel like that, find a way to leave the place where the abstraction lives, and move into the safe haven of your body.
Getting into your body through exercise steals you back from the formless world and places you back into…
