As with exercise, I believe happiness is fundamentally grounded by our own internal perception and dialogue within our own minds. However, there are significant external influences that contribute strongly towards that, in conjunction, to formulate our bodies output.

It wasn't until I began to read more about chemical receptors and how an imbalance can create drastic fluctuations in mood and subsequent emotional instability, all of which strongly contribute to the search for happiness. The fuel we choose to use for our body has an incredible influence over the output of our body, mind, and to an extent, our universal energy. I think it’s easy to think of food as a fuel source, and the food source just a different earthly substance. However, like everything, the food is simply a condensed chemical signature that, when deposited into our body, we break it down, it reacts, and we receive some sort of return through energy, recovery, repair, and a wide array of other processes.

Everyone is different and the relevant balance of fuel changes from person to person, however, finding foundation in whole, preferably organic, nutrient dense foods, is a great first step. Portion control, fasting, and balance is also a contributing factor in our bodies processing of the food, and this all creates the chemical deposits that create the output of our minds, which can dictate, or greatly influence our feelings, and perception of the world, and others around us at any point in time.

It’s easy to say happiness is all in our mind, and for the most part I strongly believe that is the case, however, it is influenced by our body’s physical composition which contributes to how we hold ourselves, how we feel, and how we present to the world for ourselves, all of which a greatly important in the search for happiness.
As the world develops, and commercialization unfortunately becomes increasingly influenced by profit margins, food and nutrition have been misguided. A large portion of the planet believes in whatever the nutritional guidelines from governments, which are funded by food companies, portray. Which is “low fat”, “low carb”, “low sugar” products, all of which are mass produced and contain highly processed, port nutritional properties.

It’s important to take our nutrition seriously and look to refine our food back to base level properties, with the least amount of processing possible. Because our nutrition and its subsequent output for our bodies has a vital part to play in the search for happiness.

Thanks,

Dean