louisa's podcast: How physical health perpetuates into our mental health

Physical activity is important for our mental health and well-being. It provides a time and place to escape from the stresses of everyday life and focus on ourselves. Working out can help us block out negative thoughts and just be in the moment. It builds endurance, strength, and confidence, and can change our mindset and perspective. There is a strong link between physical and mental health, with one in three people with long-term physical health conditions also experiencing mental health problems. Taking care of our bodies through exercise is crucial for maintaining good mental health. Hello everyone, welcome. I'm Louisa Guernsey and I'm really excited to be here to talk about this topic centered around physical activity and more importantly how it perpetuates into our mental health and, you know, our well-being. So I'm going to talk about, you know, personal experiences centered around physical activity and mental health and real world experiences. I'm going to interview someone and I'm also going to bring up some sources to kind of back me up and give me, or give you guys, I guess, more insight. So yeah. Physical activity kind of creates a time and place to, you know, escape from this thing called life and, you know, the stresses of everyday life and the world around us and what we see on the news and, you know, what we're constantly being shown, you know, on social media and other things, you know. It kind of is this time where you can just focus on your body and yourself rather than, you know, the things that don't really matter at the end of the day. So yeah, like when you're working out, you're kind of just only kind of focused on you and what you're doing in that very moment and it's just those two things. And it feels great to not have to think about, you know, oh, what am I going to do tomorrow? Oh, what is, you know, what am I going to do for this? What is going to happen for that? You know, like all these things that are constantly going through our mind, we kind of just block that out and it's just you in that moment, which is great because I think everyone deserves to have time to just be completely involved with themselves and not, you know, anything else. So yeah, and I think working out every day or getting some sort of physical activity in every day, it builds endurance, it builds strength, it builds confidence, and eventually it really changes your mindset on things and your perspective on things. And I think that's super important to always kind of be changing your mindset or looking at things in a different perspective. And I think physical activity is one of the main, like, almost like catalysts to like really changing the way we view things. So a study actually out of New Jersey Agriculture Experimentation talks about how physical health problems significantly increased our risk of developing mental health problems. According to the Mental Health Foundation, nearly one in three people with long-term physical health conditions also have a mental health problem. So yeah, we can definitely, definitely see like a link between these two aspects. And it's really important to keep in mind that our bodies and our brains and our minds, it's all connected. It's all, you know, going through the same system kind of in a way, and it's not separate. So when you're lacking in one area, such as, you know, getting that physical activity in every day or exercising your body, you might have a lack or, you know, a decrease in your mental health, and it's probably affecting you more than you think.