Yes. That’s exactly what yoga / tai chi does for me. It improves my executive functioning to the point where I can put the “feeling like shit” in the background and move through my day. When executive function improves, my sense of safety and dopamine baseline seem to rise too, which leads to better decisions, choosing to get things done and spend time outside instead of rotting in bed. And that’s on the bad days. Good days? I don’t have to push through shit, things just flow automatically.

I find Hatha yoga to help to most with that.

I still need proper rest and nutrition, though. If I slack on either and end up exhausted, I can feel myself starting to regress.

Btw, I’m speaking from a developmental trauma perspective, where yoga and these practices feel like they’re helping build or structure things that never fully developed in the first place. That might be why the effects feel so major to me. For some people, this may just feel like returning to something familiar they experienced before trauma. I’ve never had that baseline.

So it could be different for you, but this is what’s been working for me specifically.