How to trigger your parasympathetic response to lower your stress
5 things you need to know about parasympathetic response
Stress is a killer.
It feels terrible, being stressed, and it wreaks all sorts of havoc on both your physical health, and your mental wellbeing.
The more stress you feel, the harder it becomes to feel good and have a good life. On the other hand, one of the simplest and most effective way to improve the quality of your life is to reduce the amount of stress you experience.
And one of the most effective ways to reduce stress is physical activity (a.k.a exercise or working out).
This is where the parasympathetic response comes to play. Every time you workout, you trigger your body's innate programming or impulse to rest and recuperate, i.e. you trigger the parasympathetic response.
Put more simply, the parasympathetic response is that nice feeling you get after you do some vigorous activity or workout. It's also called the exercise high or runner's high.
This effect is a great way of tackling stress, because that recuperation mode automatically lowers the stress hormone and feeling in your body.
But exercise does more than just trigger the parasympathetic response, it also distracts you from whatever it is that was causing your stress and gives you a break from it.
This, in turn, gives you time and space to collect your thoughts, and figure things out. That's the great indirect beneficial impact exercise has on stress. But it also has another powerful and direct impact on stress, which it does through the happy hormones that the vigorous activity triggers.
The happy hormones also have a direct and automatic impact on your stress.
All these creates a cocktail of good factors which all have a positive impact on lowering your stress level.
So the next time you want to lower your stress level, give working out a shot.
Even three to five minutes of exercise can do wonders.
Health is wealth,
Salek
P.S. When it comes to looking after your health, self discipline plays a big role. Because without self discipline, consistently taking care of your health will become an uphill battle. Learn more about it here > Here's What You Need to Know About Self Discipline