Anxiety Support Group
Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...
We're constantly reminded of the physical effects of our societies sedentary lifestyle , yet we seldom consider the effects on mental health.
Our bodies have changed little in a hundred years or even since the days of hunter gatherers.
Yet, our activity has reduced dramatically, even since my childhood.
Does anyone else think that we used to burn off more of the anxiety and coped better with what was left because we would of been healthier?
I mean we may try, but 45 minutes at the gym just doesn't substitute for 8 hours splitting rails or running an old fashion farm kitchen
A far cry from remote control fans and cars that do our bidding when we speak to them!
So we're heavier, less fit and more anxious.
Define progress??
Our bodies have changed little in a hundred years or even since the days of hunter gatherers.
Yet, our activity has reduced dramatically, even since my childhood.
Does anyone else think that we used to burn off more of the anxiety and coped better with what was left because we would of been healthier?
I mean we may try, but 45 minutes at the gym just doesn't substitute for 8 hours splitting rails or running an old fashion farm kitchen
A far cry from remote control fans and cars that do our bidding when we speak to them!
So we're heavier, less fit and more anxious.
Define progress??
Trying to truely incorporate activity into your whole day is kinda like swimming upstream.
Young people start out doing the grunt work and staying fit and happy and as they climb the proverbial ladder they get more money, bigger bills, more worry no exercise and emotional exhaustion.
Kids are either in organized sports or in front of a machine. The rest of us seem more sedentary than our parents were too.
From a soultion point of view I guess it just points to trying to be more active in an inactive world.
I know before I self medicated with alcohol and tobacco physical activity was about the only thing that relaxed me.
Now I'm sober and tobacco free but not as active.
It's more like the state we're supposed to be in.