Walking & exercise:
- Increase serotonin, norepinephrine & dopamine, which manage your thoughts & emotions.
- Release endorphins into your body that block out pain and make you feel good.
- Promote neuroplasticity, which enhances your brains ability to learn skills and change.
- Increase oxygen supply to your brain that can help with memory, thinking and self control.
- Help manage stress & increase energy, which will help you become better at every aspect of life.
If exercise came in pill form, it would be plastered across the front page, hailed as the blockbuster drug of the century.
Do you need to hit a gym to get the benefits? It helps, but no.
Just moving your body more and more every day can compound these benefits over time.
Instead of taking the elevator, walk up the stairs. Or park a little further away next time you go to the store. Basically, find simple ways to increase time on your feet.
Don't wait on this. Start now, and let the benefits compound every day for the rest of you life.
Get out of that office chair, and start walking more. Your brain will reward you.
And it's free.
Use it to your advantage. |
