alter your state with exercise

Page 195 alter your state with exercise. As you ruminate or catastrophize, you were getting pulled into a mental pattern that depletes your energy and vitality. Nothing can demoralize you faster than getting fixated on everything that can go wrong. All you want to do is vegetate, while your mind moles, the problem over and over again. It becomes a vicious cycle of sitting and ruminating, ruminating and sitting.

— from Fuel (Energy)

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Then the steps, one tank at a time. Refuel the physical tank first, because it carries the others. Move your body — exercise is the fastest way to alter a depleted state and sharpen the mind; when the gauge spikes into panic, take four or five long, slow belly breaths, which calm the whole system at the source; and never undervalue sleep and food, the plainest refuelers there are. Spend the mental tank on purpose. Attention is the single most essential mental resource you have — it decides what you even notice, and your brain processes everything at a real cost, so automate the small, repeated decisions to save the fuel for the ones that matter. — Fuel (Energy)

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