Exercise Your Body To Rest Your Mind

Today we're gonna take a different approach to our mind and that is through our body. Because of the tight relationship between our body and our mind we can pick up signal from the body and see if the mind is feeling well or maybe something is wrong. In general medicine the doctors tell us that we have a headache when something is wrong with our body, one or more internal organs is malfunctioning, but I want to add something to this statement and say that your body is hurting when our mind is out of balance, when our mind is hurting… the body feels and expresses what the mind feels. But there is something we can do about this… we can let our mind rest while our body is working out a bit of sweat. Daily exercise means a lot to the mind and this is not secret and not something I made up… it's scientifically proven, the brain produces serotonin when we work out and that makes us happy. Serotonin is the chemical of happiness, it synthesized in the serotonergic neurons when we do things we like: sex, eat good food, dance on our favorite tune and other experiences we enjoy. Serotonin based drugs are used in depression treatment and are often prescribed by the psychologists. These drugs are to be avoided if possible and we could find our own natural source of serotonin which are plenty all around us. We can find it in plants like: bananas, pineapple, kiwifruit, plumbs and tomatoes; and we can stimulate serotonin secretion by working out. Find your own sport that you enjoy: run, lift weights, play tennis, soccer, basketball or other sport… the main goal is to take at least an hour of your daily routine and just exercise. If you won't take care of yourself, no one will and if you neglect your body others will see that and you will loose their respect and in time you will loose your own self respect. The majority of our history's geniuses knew this and many of them had an hour a day in their daily routine for working out. People tend to imagine the smart individual stereotype as the glassy and skinny dork who doesn't go out much and is pale as the wall. This is a general misconception, for example Leonardo DaVinci who was also fascinated with the human anatomy, historians believe he was a well fitted man, with a straight posture and had big respect for his own body, also he use to wear expensive and high quality clothes made from the fines materials of that time. Doesn't seem so dorky, now does he? In the end I leave you with this old Latin quotation "Mens sana in corpore sano" which means "A sound mind in a sound body". Take care of you mind by taking care of your body!