Want to Feel Happier? Get Active This April
Why is exercise good for you? Besides strengthening your body, a host of research shows that moving has multiple benefits for your mental and emotional health. For starters, evidence shows:
- Exercise is good for your brain; it actually helps cognition.
- Exercise improves sleep.
- Exercise improves mental health, alleviates anxiety, and lifts your mood.
- Exercise acts almost like a vaccine against stress.
- Exercise can ease and even ward off depression.
With these facts in mind, the folks at Action for Happiness would like to encourage you to get active this April. They offer a set of small daily actions designed to help you get moving in order to stay active and healthy. There are so many ways to do it – so get up and move!
You can download and print the calendar here.
Action for Happiness is a “movement of people taking action to create a happier and kinder world, together.” A non-religious, non-sectarian organization, it helps people “learn evidence-based skills for happier living, feel a sense of belonging and commit to personal action to create more happiness, for ourselves and others.”