Have you ever had one of those months where your mind just won’t clear up? This happens to me in the spring when I need to increase my allergy medication. Claritin clear? Claritin wonky is more like it!

Anyway, this year it seems to be having a detrimental effect on my editorial skills. Typos and misspelled words are getting by me at an alarming rate.

So what do I do? I slow down. I take things off my to do list and try my best to be OK with accomplishing less.

Sometimes, you just need a break. And, if you won’t take on voluntarily, your mind, body or spirit will force the issue.

In his book, The Foundations of Personality, Abraham Myerson wrote the following passage:

The history of Man’s thought is the real history of mankind. Back of all the events of history are the curious systems of beliefs for which men have lived and died. Struggling to understand himself, Man has built up and discarded superstitions, theologies and sciences.

Early in this strange and fascinating history he divided himself into two parts–a body and a mind. Working together with body, mind somehow was of different stuff and origin than body and had only a mysterious connection with it. Theology supported this belief; metaphysics and philosophy debated it with an acumen that was practically sterile of usefulness. Mind and body “interacted” in some mysterious way; mind and body were “parallel” and so set that thought-processes and brain-processes ran side by side without really having anything to do with one another.

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O.K. On the one hand, this post might be better off in the “Body Blog,” but I’ve decided to put it here because the emphasis is not on the exercise but on how exercise affects you mind.

There are two reasons why you will feel better and clear your mind when you are working out on a regular basis.

1. Exercise is going to stimulate the release of different types of hormones that will help to regulate your mood and make you feel relaxed.

2. Doing exercises will ease your reaction to daily stress in your life. You will help clear your head from your problems and worries that are dragging you down and filling your mind with stress and anxiety.

There are a few different ways that you can use a great workout to clear your mind — and help you feel good about your body and your health too. Relaxing is a very important, and if you cannot relax, you are going to find that you may end up with more and more health problems. Which, in turn, makes you feel bad about yourself and what you are doing.
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