June 4: Happiness is a double-dose of exercise … all those endorphins

If you’re following my blog (or Facebook / insta posts) you might have seen that I’ve been traveling a bit, a lot actually. I slept in three cities (Brisbane, Melbourne and Canberra) in five nights recently, so that’s a lot of disruption to routine for me. And the travel is tiring – you don’t eat properly, sleep properly and other bodily functions are out of whack also.

I’ve become so reliant on exercise to ground me at home, that I was relieved and grateful to be out running this morning. I felt good about life after 8km and so happily took myself to the gym tonight for a double-dose of endorphins – and that my friends, is what it’s all about!

endorphin

ɛnˈdɔːfɪn/

noun
plural noun: endorphins






any of a group of hormones secreted within the brain and nervous system and having a number of physiological functions. They are peptides which activate the body’s opiate receptors, causing an analgesic effect.