Anxiety is almost constant sense of worry, emotional discomfort, or nervousness about life in general or even about specific upcoming events and situations. Anxiety worsens the sensation of pain, and being sedentary worsens anxiety. The solution to both problems is to move more than you tend to. Exercise causes the body to produce chemicals that lessen anxiety and increase the sense of happiness. Let’s look at the situation a bit more, to understand what anxiety feels like, why it happens, and how prevent or to end it.
Listen to Dr. John Bergman describe a brief history of anxiety and a longer description of how to resolve it. One of the major points in his presentation is that anxiety isn’t the result of what happens in our lives, it is our response to those events that causes anxiety. Be smart: Don’t condemn setbacks and disappointments. Don’t assume the worst, either. Those mindsets create a chemical response in several parts of your body and it’s not a good one. Chemicals that generate a sense of fear, panic, misery and other negative emotions course through your body, making your mood worse over time. There’s an alternative to generating your own continued misery: …
