{"id":12139,"date":"2024-10-19T06:29:55","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T13:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12139"},"modified":"2024-08-31T06:34:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T13:34:12","slug":"feeling-down-or-anxious-go-for-a-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12139","title":{"rendered":"Feeling down or anxious? Go for a walk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Physical activity has been shown to substantially improve wellbeing and mental health, but most research on this topic has so far focused on deliberate exercise. But it&#8217;s unclear how spontaneous movement in daily life impacts patients seeking mental health treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" data-attachment-id=\"12141\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?attachment_id=12141\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/08\/ComfyUI__00184_.png?fit=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1024,1024\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"ComfyUI__00184_\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/08\/ComfyUI__00184_.png?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/08\/ComfyUI__00184_.png?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12141\" style=\"width:549px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/08\/ComfyUI__00184_.png?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/08\/ComfyUI__00184_.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/08\/ComfyUI__00184_.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/08\/ComfyUI__00184_.png?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2024\/08\/ComfyUI__00184_.png?resize=270%2C270&amp;ssl=1 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In 2021, a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/6\/45\/eaaz8934\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">small study<\/a>&nbsp;of 67 participants found everyday activities, like walking to the tram stop or climbing a flight of stairs, made people feel more alert and energetic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sciencealert.com\/magnetic-resonance-imaging\">magnetic resonance imaging<\/a>&nbsp;of participants&#8217; brains showed those who felt more energetic after movement had a larger volume of gray brain matter in the subgenual cingulate cortex \u2013 a part of the brain associated with emotional regulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/theres-one-simple-aspect-of-everyday-life-linked-to-better-wellbeing-study-finds\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/theres-one-simple-aspect-of-everyday-life-linked-to-better-wellbeing-study-finds<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physical activity has been shown to substantially improve wellbeing and mental health, but most research on this topic has so far focused on deliberate exercise. But it&#8217;s unclear how spontaneous movement in daily life impacts patients seeking mental health treatment. In 2021, a&nbsp;small study&nbsp;of 67 participants found everyday activities, like walking to the tram stop or climbing a flight of stairs, made people feel more alert and energetic. Further&nbsp;magnetic resonance imaging&nbsp;of participants&#8217; brains showed those who felt more energetic after&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12139\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-39N","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12142,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12139\/revisions\/12142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}