Mental Health-Physical Health Connection

I posted this on the Beachbody forums but thought it was worth posting on this site as well. This is really, really a big piece of the puzzle! We really, really have to "in your gut" GET this concept of how important it is to be physically active! I've been having a huge AHA over the last couple of days. In the workout yesterday, Chalene said something about the connection between mental health and physical health (working out). When she said that something *sort of* clicked in my brain. I say *sort of* because I didn't hear the angels singing and see streams of light on this AHA moment. What DID happen is Chalene's words stewed and rattled around in my brain for awhile. As I drove my goalie girl to her hockey game (which they won btw!!), I popped in the motivation CD that comes with Chalene Extreme and she talked about the mental health/physical health connection again. That's when I looked back to the times in the past, and more specifically on this journey I've started, to really get a handle on when I've felt down. The really great thing about WOWY is that you can actually see when you've worked out and when you've missed.And, of course, when I looked over my last 8 months, the periods of time when I've been low have ALWAYS been when I slacked on the workouts!! So without trying to pontificate, I'd like to offer a recommendation to anyone on this journey...and I'm talking from brand new 'I just started working out' to those of you who are veteran hard bods....start a journal!!! That was the way I could look back on these months to see where I was mentally. I took the time to compare it to the WOWY calendar to see the trends. (I'm going to add a one line summary of my workout to my journal entries to make this easier) So this continues to rattle in brain....and my thoughts go in lots of different directions on this but they really do center on the FACT that we are happier people when we are working out!! Does anyone see the angels singing and the lights coming down from heaven?!!??!!?