Human beings were designed to move, not sit on chairs. So exercise is an essential part of good body
function. It's also the quickest way to a healthy physical glow and a positive mental attitude and feeling of well-being.

Not only does exercise keep the heart healthy and get oxygen into the system, but it helps deplete stress hormones and releases mood-enhancing chemicals which help us cope with stress better.

Just as fight or flight has a potentially negative physiological effect on the body, exercise has a positive one. It increases blood flow to the body and brain and stimulates the nervous system in positive ways. Most notably, exercise produces beta-endorphins in the body which induces a natural ‘high’.

Whether you are building muscle or stamina, all types of exercise relaxes tense muscles and tissue. These can strongly contribute to stress-related aches and pains such as neck or back pains and headaches.

Exercise is also particularly good when it’s competitive. This will enable you to raise your game to a higher performance level that you would otherwise achieve. Try a sport with an opponent such as tennis or badminton, or a situation where you can set up a race against someone else, such as cycling, swimming or even power walking with a friend. 

But whatever exercise you try, you will soon discover its major benefit is that it allows you to forget your problems. Not only do you become completely absorbed in what you are doing at the time. But the positive endorphins that exercise releases will also help you maintain a more positive outlook afterwards.