The Health Benefits of Managing Your Excitement

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Managing your excitement levels could be an excellent way of learning to control your body and help it reach optimum performance. Excitement is to be found at the interface between the “physical” and the “mental”. This means that if you can learn to master your excitement you can become more responsive to both your physical and mental wellbeing. Here are three health benefits of well-managed excitement.

Happiness

When you feel excited, the sympathetic nervous system is engaged, the heart rate increases, and signals are sent to the brain to release more endorphins. These are the hormones that make you feel happy and contented.

Increased Energy

Because the cardiovascular and nervous systems are engaged by excitement, these systems begin to work to give you more short bursts of energy. It also stops longer-term processes such as digestion to concentrate instead on getting energy to the muscles. This can be very good for working out, but it shouldn’t be practiced too often as it might disrupt normal digestion.

Lowers Anxiety

Excitement can be a very powerful tool for combating anxiety. When you feel anxious, try telling yourself that you feel excited instead. This can convert some of that excess nervous energy into happy, energetic activity This requires learning how your mind and body and work together.