Exercise Shown To Help Those With Social Anxiety

Social anxiety can be a very frustrating thing to endure, especially when all you want to do is make the people around you happy. Once you start feeling the anxiety build up, the only thing that you want to do is escape, alone. A recent study showed that exercise can help ease the tension of social anxiety. Read more about this below...

“We wanted to examine whether people would perceive their environment as less threatening after engaging in physical exercise or after doing a relaxation technique that is similar to the breathing exercises in yoga (called progressive muscle relaxation),” Heenan said. “We found that people who either walked or jogged on a treadmill for 10 minutes perceived these ambiguous figures as facing towards them (the observer) less often than those who simply stood on the treadmill.

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