Which is more important, mental health or physical health?

With ten years of personal training under my belt , and three years of battling depression, anxiety and PTSD.

I have put to the test, which is more important to us.

Mental Health or Physical Health

There is no doubt in my mind that our mental health is the outright winner here.

The impact of mental illness or an attack from a life event can leave you a mere shell of a human.

I know from personal experience when my father passed, there was a total break down, leaving me out of work for a month, then fighting my way back to what I knew to be a healthy life.

It took over 16 months.

And I am lucky with how quick that time frame was. That is a blink of an eye in the mental health world.

How I was able to get back to the state I once knew is where Physical Health came into play.

Above our neck is the brain, and below it is what we see as our physical health: the muscles, our fat, that protruding belly.

Our body does not work separately in these two realms. Instead, they work together in unison.

If you put a jelly donut in your stomach, the brain will receive different signals than if you were to put in a rice and salmon bowl with greens.

The same goes for how much you exert your muscles, tissues and lung capacity.

If you do not move them more than a walk to your fridge and around your house daily, the flashes traveling to your brain are few and far between.

These flashes do many things scientifically to the overall health of your brain. But they also do a lot to your general state of happiness with yourself and your confidence.

The more confident you show in the physical health realm tends to equate to a more stable mental health.

So go ahead and get moving daily.

Allow your physical health to be the stepping stone to an improved Mental Health.