Wednesday, December 28, 2011

A Healthy Body Can Help You Have A Healthy Mind

A Healthy Body Can Help You Have A Healthy Mind


by Ben Miller


Desiring a fit, good looking figure or being able to wear clothes that once used to fit you are just two reasons for better bodily health aspirations. At the start of any new resolution to become fit, the goals are ordinarily physical in the sense of how you appear to others. In maintaining the motivation to do this, we often use our minds to envision ourselves when we have changed our bodies and this keeps us going. Exercising our mental faculties as a means to make the body healthier has the out-of-the-blue bonus of making our minds healthier. In this article, we will look at what several of these benefits are and this should give you the extra motivation to aim for a healthy body.

For people desiring to reach their goals, it's vital that they have sufficient self-confidence to carry them through to the end. Coming into contact with somebody who is self-confident and at ease with themselves is a positive experience and inspires trust in that person. You will discover that one of the benefits of working out is to increase your levels of self assurance and esteem that grow as you become more phyiscally fit. You will of course feel this in any event just after exercising, which can be terrific if you can do this before any important events in your life. As your body starts to look better, you'll see that the boosts in self-esteem after working out begin to merge into how you feel about yourself most of the time.

Stress is virtually inescapable today at one time or another, but how awful it appears depends upon how well you are able to handle it. 'Bad' kinds of stress are induced by nonstop feelings of dread or anxiety, but the type of stress when we are busy doing something we enjoy is not bad. A healthy person is better equipped to cope with stress and you should notice these benefits as your body gets healthier with exercise. Despite having everything going for them in life, a number men and women all the same experience relentless stress because they have unhealthy lifestyles and are not very fit. It's a good preventative measure to keep your body healthy as stress can reduce your quality of life and may even cut it short..

Another way that exercise can be great for your mind is the way you learn to concentrate and reach your goals. You really need to be focused and to discipline yourself daily to build up a healthy body. Your work, education or recreation are only three other aspects of your life that may benefit from a more focused and disciplined approach. Because you can prove to yourself that you are able to build a healthy body, this will give you the confidence to go out and accomplish more things in your own life.. This new self-esteem along with a better, healthier body is a winning combination to help you get more out of life.

So there are even more reasons to start building your healthy body and you will soon improve your physical and mental health.




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