Doing exercises everyday will bost your feel-good endorphins, increase mood-enhancing neurotransmitters, relaxes your muscle tension and minimizes your cortisol (stress hormone) levels. Then you can sleep well and become anxiety free.
So let's discover here some of the best exercises that help you cure anxiety...
Aerobic Exercise
You will imporve your positive mental attitude with Aerobic exercises. Then you'll get control over yourself. So fighting stress and anxiety becomes easy.
A good aerobic exercise program will help you live a longer, healthier life and enhance your over all well being.
Breathing Exercises
How to breath is very important in controlling your anxiety. Shallow breathing leads to increased anxiety and panic attack. So learn to breath using your diaphragm rather than using your chest. You can do this Diaphragmatic breathing either lying on your back or sitting in a chair.
Initially, practice for 5 to 10 minutes for three to four times a day. And then slowly spend more time on doing the exercise. This helps you cure anxiety.
Imagery Exercises
You need imagery or visualization skills to cure anxiety. With them, you can relax thoroughly as anxiety and tension decrease. You have many ways to do these imagery exercises. For example, visualize the most beautiful scenic place you have been to for abot ten minutes.
You may also use images such as a tight, twisted rope that slowly unwinds, wax softening and dissolving or anything you can think of. The imageries really work well.
To do these imagery exercises, all you need is about ten to fifteen minutes and a quite place where you will not be disturbed.
So exercises will improve your mental, emotional, and physical health. Your resistance to stress will increase and this will cure anxiety.
