How to be consistently happy
Disclaimer:There are a lot of steps to become consistently happy.Here i have discussed only the physical aspects, there is lot of work for mental thinking too.I know it might seem like a lot of work but its all about small steps each day towards being happy.
Why settle for less when you can have more? Why just be happy or content when you can have a life full of joy and bliss? What do you consider happiness?
I consider myself privileged. I have a roof over my head, never have to think about my next meal, clothes to wear. I might come off as not being grateful but, even with all the positive things in life, I find myself complaining about my life. When I am confident, nothing can pull me down. But when I am vulnerable, even the slightest comment hits me. I have learned over the past years that people pulling you down has more to say about them than you. But lately, I have these thoughts of whether spending time with friends and partying is fun or working towards a goal but have to sacrifice friends and party along the way is good? I love getting to know why I feel a certain way or why something is happening this way, which is why I started exploring more about the purpose for life.
Your mind and body function together.
Athletes live and die by the performance of their bodies. They can sense how their negative thoughts can cause their brains to secrete chemicals that immediately impair their performance. This awareness helps them to be more objective and positive when dealing with challenges. It helps them to control their emotions and increase their performance. When you are positive, your brain secretes super high-octane chemicals, and your ability to perform excels. Your brain receives input through your five senses. Whenever you
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it enters your nervous system as an electrical message through a neuron (nerve cell). Once the electrical message reaches the end of the neuron, the electrical message converts into biochemical (called a neurotransmitter). Then, this chemical message is converted back into an electrical message when it reaches the next neuron. This process repeats itself over and over until the message reaches the brain and is acted upon. As the chemicals change, the messages change and your brain’s performance varies accordingly. As your awareness increases, you will realize that you can’t hide your feelings from those you interact with and they can’t hide theirs from you. That’s why you have good chemistry with people you enjoy being with and bad chemistry with those that you don’t. You can increase your natural abilities and happiness by consciously adjusting the chemistry of your brain's fluid. This fluid is affected by your thoughts, diet/nutrition, exercise, rest, environment, and physiology.
1. THOUGHTS: Your positive and negative thoughts cause your brain to secrete chemicals. These chemicals, in turn, affect all your natural abilities and functions. Your thoughts have two components:
facts and emotions. Your version of the world is how you look at it. That's why the world seems different for different people. The things that happen to you are a fact. However, you attach emotions to these facts. You must realize that negative emotions cause adverse chemical secretions and hinder your natural abilities. Increase your awareness of the influence these negative emotions have on your brain's chemistry, performance and happiness and restructure it. Facts are merely facts. However, you can choose your emotional response to them.
2. DIET/NUTRITION: Everything you eat and drink is a chemical, which affects your performance and how you feel. If you doubt this, observe how a person’s behavior changes when they drink some alcohol. Better yet, ask them how they feel the next day if they drank too much. In the early days, there were no factories and no processed foods. Humans are designed to live on natural foods with the proper amounts of protein, carbohydrates, and fat. Now, I advise you to eat wisely and in moderation, because you are what you consume.
3. EXERCISE: In the early days, humans engaged in many forms of physical activity just to survive. Your body is designed to have physical exertion so it can remove toxins and secrete happy hormones called endorphins. If you do not believe this, exercise the next time you are depressed. Notice how much better you feel after exercising. Is 20 minutes of aerobic exercise three times a week too great a price to pay for a healthy body and an alert mental state?
4. REST: Sufficient rest is necessary for the body to eliminate toxins. Have you ever noticed that you sleep more when depressed than when you are excited and happy to be alive? While you sleep, your brain is busy processing all the information it received during the day so that it can make spontaneous decisions when you’re awake.
5. ENVIRONMENT: When I refer to the environment, I’m not just talking about the air you breathe and your physical surroundings. I am more concerned with the people around you. The energy they generate, as well as their thoughts and actions, can adversely affect you. I strongly recommend associating only with positive people or keep to yourself. The only time you should associate with negative people is when you are trying to help them. Researchers have found that emotions, positive and negative alike, are nearly as contagious as colds and flu. You can catch feelings of happiness, sadness, etc from friends, family, colleagues, even strangers.
Mood infection happens in milliseconds, says Elaine Hatfield, a psychology professor at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu and a co-author of Emotional Contagion (Cambridge University Press, 1994). When interacting with a negative person, take extra steps to remain positive. Otherwise, you may be influenced by his or her negativity.
6. PHYSIOLOGY: Your body reflects your emotional state. When you are positive and confident, you stand erect with your chest out and a smile on your face. If you just won $10,000,000 in the lottery, imagine how you would feel and how your physiology would respond. You would feel on top of the world. Everyone watching you will see it by the way you carry yourself. Imagine how you would feel and look if you lost your winning lottery ticket /. If this depressed you, your eyes would be down and your shoulders slumped. Some individuals would probably feel like killing themselves for losing their winning ticket. Your physiology works both ways. Your body reflects your feelings. One of the quickest and easiest ways to improve your chemistry is to change your physiology. By taking slow deep breaths, standing tall, and sticking your chest out, you automatically increase your chemistry and immediately feel better. Raise your eyes to the sky and smile right now. Do you feel a change in your energy and alertness? If you always carry yourself like a winner, you will feel like a winner.
Your thoughts, diet/nutrition, exercise, rest, environment, and physiology have a positive or negative impact on your brain’s chemistry which affects how well you perform and feel. To become happier and more successful, part of the process is to consciously work on increasing the chemistry so your brain can perform more efficiently and at higher levels. The time and effort you spend reducing the negative emotions and increasing the positive ones will determine how much you can increase your happiness.
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