Stress must be managed or else there are physical (potentially life shortening) consequences
What works to combat stress and anxiety? Physical fitness. The more physically fit a person is the higher their HRV (heart rate variability) and the lower their resting heart rate. Exercise and meditation are known to improve HRV. Specifically cardiovascular exercise improves the heart by remodeling it. This makes the heart more efficient (we have a finite number of heart beats in our lifetime).
While people cannot always forget their past experiences or ignore current problems it is possible to improve the ability of the body to physically handle stress. Resistance training primes the muscular skeletal system to handle stress. Bone density improves as muscles grow bigger and stronger. On the other hand cardiovascular fitness improvements can combat chronic fatigue, anxiety, and psychological stress.
A pill is not the answer to every problem. Aging means the ability to handle stress (physical and psychological) decreases over time. This means physical and psychological resilience will decrease unless a person takes an active role to build their reserves and slow the process down. An older person who gets upset will have higher blood pressure which can cause a stroke or heart attack. A younger person under the same psychological stress may have more resilience physically to compensate. An older person who is under psychological stress may become physically ill while a younger person is likely to have enough physical resilience to in many cases avoid this.
We often see people who lived through some of the most stressful situations imaginable when they were younger become sick in old age. This is eventually the stress breaks the body down. This happens to athletes, to soldiers, to police officers, to anyone who has a high stress profession. It happens to people on Wall Street and in business who are constantly working 80 hour work weeks, to surgeons at the ER and to pilots. The point being that physical fitness and meditation are a means of extending the ability of the body to remain psychologically fit.
Yoga? There are a lot of people who endorse the practice of Yoga. Yoga does seem to benefit people particularly as aging takes place. Yoga helps people develop flexibility but it also helps people develop their mindfulness. Meditation in general accomplishes something similar and of course it is also accomplishable by use of psychoactive substances. The point being that Yoga is a means of increasing physical and psychological resilience which is lower impact and suitable for aging populations.
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Join gym and do efforts on regular basis listen appreciation by family member and friends like wow what a fit body. It will make you happy.
Yes this true and i can vouche for this finding i know someone who suffered from anxiety and some depression a few years ago and i begun working out with them an hour everyday and we started see the improvements he was making it even helped me start relaxing and clearing my mind better so to this day we both still workout a hour each day. Great post
Good tips to keep in mind for good health. I need to be more disciplined about this.
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Nice article
Ancient Indians Discovered this world is still discovering..I believe if still awareness level is low about meditation and yoga..people think its a kind of exercise but its a way of life and it gives real control to your mind.
awesome concept sir. thanks for share your inportant
concept..