dont_worry
08-24-2015, 06:29 AM
Anyone who has read my previous posts knows I attribute a huge part of my defeat of anxiety to physical exercise. I simply cannot overstate its importance in any non-medicinal approach to overcoming anxiety, panic and depression. It is an incredibly effective route to making contact with your own self love - and ultimately it's lack of contact with that self love which is responsible for these symptoms.
Anyway, I wanted to share this article, on The Guardian, which highlights this very point. The correspondent was essentially suicidal, but got through it - and then some - by discovering first walking (in nature reserves - excellent for practising mindfulness) and then walking.
Have a read! (I am unable to post links, so add the www yourself)
theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/24/running-saved-my-life-depression-doctors-pills-therapy-did-nothing#comment-58083544
Anyway, I wanted to share this article, on The Guardian, which highlights this very point. The correspondent was essentially suicidal, but got through it - and then some - by discovering first walking (in nature reserves - excellent for practising mindfulness) and then walking.
Have a read! (I am unable to post links, so add the www yourself)
theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/aug/24/running-saved-my-life-depression-doctors-pills-therapy-did-nothing#comment-58083544