The process involved in cylcing

My personal therapist was, for the second time, not ready for my arrival. He would usually provide me with water in order to rinse my paintbrush but this was also not provided. I began to reflect upon why and how this has happened. At first I disregarded it completely as I wanted to get the most out of the session at the time but on my cycle home I could not get this out of my head. I am aware that I reflect on my personal therapy session upon cycling home, there is something about exercising, physical exertion that provides an outlet for my thoughts. On the days I do not cycle it takes me longer to return to my everyday life, it takes longer to be able to concentrate on other tasks. This makes me wonder about the link between stress and exercise. 

I have always heard that exercise relieves stress but have not experienced this in reality until recently. Cycling makes me physically exhausted by the time I return home, which creates an exhaustion of emotion. I feel I move past those thoughts and feelings from personal therapy and am able to externalise them, to reflect upon them. Once I’m home I am able to write in my thought journal about the experience. The journey of cycling brings out those emotions that are very much in my mind to an external medium; the written process too is an addition to this.

I have discovered that exercise in the form of cycling is a great process for me to consider the thoughts evoked through personal therapy. This is quite a surprise to me as I am definitely not one to enjoy exercise or even feel the benefit from it until now.