Comment by slowmovintarget
1 year ago
Daily exercise knocks on both doors, so to speak. It will help you sleep and it will also help you manage anxiety. Same for maintaining gut health. We are non-orthogonal systems.
1 year ago
Daily exercise knocks on both doors, so to speak. It will help you sleep and it will also help you manage anxiety. Same for maintaining gut health. We are non-orthogonal systems.
Fair enough, I don't mean to say that I'm not a proponent of exercise, or having a cold bedroom, or any of the other standard pieces of advice. I follow them all by habit at this point.
What I mean to say is that first things first. There are lots of well-meaning advice we can give to people suffering from insomnia, delayed sleep onset etc etc. Most of it will only work if it helps fix anxiety. Awareness of this can be very helpful by itself.
If I go a week or so without some real exercise my anxiety starts to creep up. It does this no matter how good or bad my sleep has been over that time.
Edit typo while on my trainer. Lol
The problem arises when the obligation to exercise impinges on sleep time, whether that be having to get up early for a run or having to stay up late after chores to get a session done.
Sleep gives immediate benefits, exercise gives longer term benefits. It's a conundrum.