Exercise can help you overcome your addiction and help you heal both your mind and body. It can help you stay addiction free for the rest of your life. And it can hep with some of they symptoms you may feel during early withdrawals and recovery.
If you stick with a regular exercise program you can help prevent relapse. Exercise works well with 12 step programs, counseling, and other therapies. But more importantly regular exercise can help repair the brain by growing new brain cells.
How is this done? Well in one key area exercise promotes the brains natural ability to return to a proper balance of neurotransmitters. Or in other words, the body has a remarkable ability to heal and return to homeostasis.
Here are some other ways that exercise can help you overcome your addiction
- Promotes the growth of new neurons in the limbic system.
- Helps keep you healthy allowing you to heal a lot faster, and stave of sickness.
- Allows your brain chemistry to return back to its normal balance.
- Can help relieve depression, stress, anxiety and…
- Boost self-esteem, mood and your self confidence.
- Helps you achieve goals, allows you to socialize more, and can make you happier.
- It can improve the image you have of your self, and get you in better touch with how your body works and feels.
- It can help alleviate post-acute withdrawal symptoms.
As you can see exercise can be a powerful tool in helping you to overcome your addiction. And when used in conjunction with eating healthy foods, a 12 step program, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and spiritual healing can catapult you into a better life of recovery, and a relapse free life.