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And happy people just don’t shoot their husbands. They just don’t.
– Elle Woods, Legally Blonde

An interesting study (which was discussed on another wordpress blog) suggests that doing yoga increases the levels of the neurotransmitter Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid (GABA) in the brain. Apparently this GABA thing is important in brain areas involving emotion and anxiety.

The study was done with teeny sample groups (8 who did yoga, 11 who just read) though so I’m gonna take that with a grain of salt, but I reallyshould do yoga again.

I always feel really good after going to a class, it’s just the lack of momentum to actually get there that’s the problem.

But, knowing the thing about exercise that my doctors/psychologists/psychiatrists/websites have always said helps in the treatment for depression, I dragged myself out for a quick walk this morning. It was very quick, but better than nothing.

I’ve signed up to do a bootcamp with a bunch of law-school mates, which starts next week, so I have 2 sessions of exercise a week for the next 4 weeks booked out. There’s a pre-course fitness assessment at 6am tomorrow morning and I RSVPed that I’d be there, in the hope that having committed to someone else, not just making a mental note to myself, will make me get out of bed.

And maybe, just maybe, I will get to the yoga school that is literally up the road from me.