When I think of happiness, I think of simple things... Fresh air, sunlight, water, communing with nature, and doing nothing but being.
And when I think about what my body needs, it's about the same!
We need fresh air, filtered by plants not machines, free from dust and moulds that inhabitate our homes and offices.
We need sunlight which regulates our body clocks to feel happy during the day and sleepy at night, and allows us to make vitamin D!
We need water! Dehydration is state a lot of us are used to and we don't realise just how it is affecting us because we don't know any different! Water is life!
We need natural sources of food, not processed foods. To get the vitamins and minerals we need, fibre, proteins (to get those all important amino acids which not only build muscle but build our hormones as well).
And then there are our thoughts. Meditation is something that should be a natural state for us, most of our most pure moments of happiness involve reaching a meditative state - staring at a beautiful view, listening to the crash of waves as they hit the shore. Our minds a blank slate - peaceful and content.
Are these things not obvious?
Do we need science with structured evidence to prove that these things are basic requirements for a good, healthy, happy, and long life residing in our bodies?
The only things missing is that we need people we love, and a purpose or mission. This is what takes us from being to living.
On a final note, it seems, as a society, that we are getting further and further away from these elements. We spend more time indoors, away from fresh air and sunshine, we drink less water, foods are processed and as we need to work more, we rely on processed foods to save time, and our minds are busy, constantly bombarded with advertising, computer games, and tv.
Simple. Obvious. Yet seemingly out of reach.
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