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THE YCEO: How Exercise Can Keep You From Addictions

How Exercise Can Keep You From Addictions
Just like any other type of medical problem, addictions tend to interfere with a person’s normal body functioning. It overrides the person’s brain’s survival circuits leaving the person to only yearn for the drug he or she is addicted to instead of seeking intimate relationships or eating healthy.

Apart from its obvious role of burning calories, exercise can also be used to rebuild an addicts inborn mechanism that encourages a good health. In addition, it decreases the likelihood of an addict developing a broad range of conditions that are brought about by limited movements like heart diseases and high blood pressure. If you are still not convinced, follow through for how exercise can keep you from addiction.

1. Exercise gives you better sleep
Generally, addiction disrupts a good number of your body processes, including the circadian rhythms. When this happens, the addict will always struggle to sleep well, unless he or she uses whatever they are addicted to. After you have learnt how to recognize if your loved one is abusing drugs and put him or her in treating or counselling, their body will soon begin to heal. Add regular exercise to this and this process will happen even much faster as well as restoring your normal sleep cycle.

2. Exercise keeps you busy
When you are in your early stages of addiction recovery, you will always find that you have a lot of time at your disposal. Thankfully, exercising regularly will easily help you fill up this free time. When you start giving it priority, it will definitely end up taking a good chunk of your free time. In addition to that, it will help you keep boredom at bay.

3. Exercise relieves stress.
Regular exercise has been time and again proven to be very effective when it comes to easing both psychological and physical stress. Whether you are working or interacting with other people, tension is something that you have to learn ways to deal with everyday. It is only through movement that your body gets to alleviate this tension as well as get rid of negative emotions. Therefore, you can make regular exercise to become your default stress-reliever.

4. Exercise heals your body and mind
Whether you are in addiction recovery or not, exercise is known to help one heal his or her body and brain. This is why those people who exercise regularly rarely suffer from ailments, particularly type 2 diabetes, heart diseases, and several types of cancer. In addition, exercise helps the body to stimulate the development of newer nerves in the part of the brain that is solely responsible for cognition.

5. Exercise helps build self-confidence
People who exercise at least 3 to 4 times a week report an increase in their feelings of optimism and self-confidence. On the other hand, they experience a reduction in their feelings of anxiety and depression. While this to some extent comes due to the body regulating and adjusting itself when exercising, it also has something to do with some feelings of self worth, pride, and accomplishment.

When you are going through addiction recovery, the thought of adding regular exercise to your daily recovery routine can feel quite overwhelming. However, the bottom line is that regular exercise is a valuable part of an addict’s recovery process. The best thing is that you don’t have to be a gym rat for you to start seeing the benefits. Nonetheless, you should always remember that exercise is just one of the many tools that you need in your addiction recovery process.

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