My Personal View on Physical Exercise

Of course, you all know or we all know how important physical exercise is .
And yet, it's challenging for us who have depression or mental illness to get motivated to do it.  It's like we are carrying all that extra baggage in our mind and spirit and we just can't be bothered.  If you have been there you understand perfectly what I am talking about.  In fact, maybe the title scared you a little.
I know!  A month ago I would have rather talked about sitting down with my phone on the web than physical exercise.  This post probably wouldn't have existed.
Just lately, since I enjoy walking, I have done it for longer, like up to 10,000 steps but this morning my balloon got deflated pretty quick when I stepped on the scale and found out I had gained weight.

Now I never heard more about weight gain and weight loss than in North America.  I might be wrong but where I come from in Belgium people are not so obsessed with it as we are here.  They just try to live well.  They eat fries and mussels and enjoy life.  They call it 'La joie de vivre'.  There is not that constant worry of weight.  Unless this is something that happened everywhere since the latest decades.  Of course, it seems that this concern for weight is causing other problems mentally or physically and even socially.

Why does it take us just to step on the scale to change our moods?  My answer it is media and peer pressure.  We just can't be happy with who we are.  We have to be 'ideal'.  There is an ideal we are following. Our ideal might be different at 20 years of age than at 60 years old.

Nevertheless, one thing I know for sure is that  we all need exercise and that is what oils the wonderful machine that we are.  Extra weight or normal weight we all need exercise to be healthy and strong in mind and body.  The extend that you want to do it is up to you, but do it for a while and it will change your outlook on life.  Healthy people are happy people and it is your responsibility to choose that level of health you want in your life.  There is an 'ideal' out there but for the sake of my well-being mentally especially and then physically I choose to not seek it or pursue it.  I just want to be happy with myself and no one else but only with the one I have to give account to.

I believe that this post presents a balanced view in mental and physical health for myself.
I just thought you might be interested in knowing where I stand.

A Cheerful Heart

Bernard Demaere

 

A cheerful heart does well to me

A cheerful heart will keep me strong

A cheerful heart will keep me long

A cheerful heart will keep a song

A cheerful heart does well to me

 

Proverbs 17:22

“A cheerful heart is good medicine…”

 




 
I was born in Belgium ����.I am retired and living with my wife of 36years, Cathy. We are the proud parents of two adult married children. One of each, Zoe and Steve. Now we have grandchildren as well. I love writing, I don’t write some poetry. I have quite a collection of poems.

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