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Self Expression as Factor in Happiness
Posted by: | CommentsMammals are very social beings. They can usually be found living in communities. The advantage of living in communities can be for survival but it then has a big communication component. We communicate to take 
care of basic necessities, but then we like to communicate to express ourselves. Mammals like to play and frolic.
What is it about play that is so fundamentally important? Children love to play, dolphins love to play, horses love to romp and chase. It is an expression of feeling good. It is a form of happiness. And yet with our tremendous mental capacity, we can play in many more ways than the physical.
In our youth, little girls’ minds develop faster and they take to conversation before boys. Boys develop physically faster and they take to the terrible two’s because that’s how they best express themselves at that stage. Later we might use our minds or our bodies or both to express what we feel and who we are. It is our way of playing out our experience of what life means to us.
The more we focus, the more uniquely or skilled our expressions can be. The 10,000 hours of practice makes people experts in their expressions. The term “flow” is said to be the highest form of emotional intelligence, at least as defined by Daniel Goleman in his book Emotional Intelligence. Being “in the zone” is the place a person can achieve with practiced skills to the exclusion of distractions and with disregard to judgment.
Neurologists say that being in flow or in the zone, the brain produces dopamine as our happiness chemical. We are pre-wired to be experts in expressing ourselves and getting rewarded for doing so. Maybe in our search for “happiness” through acquiring and achieving we lose touch with the most elementary mammal desire.
We like to express ourselves and we are often inclined to see if their is a limit to just how good we can be. Why climb Everest? Because it’s the tallest mountain or we would climb something else. Why go to the moon? To see if we can do it. Why practice the violin ten hours a day? Because we want to see just how good we could be.
If you are getting bogged down in daily life and want to find some happiness, key into a passion of self expression. We often use up our time with meaningless activities like TV, marrying our smart phones, and so on when real happiness awaits our arrival.
Get into something that is uniquely you. Write, dance, cook, build, paint, sew, climb, surf, bike, or whatever it is you could practice regularly and improve upon your skills. This is where happiness lies.
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Is Natural a Food Definition?
Posted by: | CommentsSometimes it is and sometimes it isn’t. The food industry has adopted the word because it has a favorable connotation with consumers. 
It could generally mean food that has not been processed in a factory. Organic may be a more specific definition when speaking of produce. Organic and natural are the same but organic would mean food was not sprayed with harmful insecticides. Local farmers tell me they use fertilizers and sprays approved as non harmful and still call foods organic.
Meat is a much different story. It would be immoral to call animals raised in factory type conditions in closed spaces and mostly on grain, natural. They are also given hormones to speed up the growth process and then anti-biotics because of the problem incurred from close quarters and eating only grains.
Some meat producers start adding the term natural if they, for instance, give otherwise closed up chickens a door to the outside to feed on a square patch of grass. The term then gets very general when applied to those who raise animals by feeding mostly on grass in outdoor and pasture environments.
They want to include the word natural because of the good connotation and acceptance. Their animals may be fed on grass when there is no snow and then often fattened up and tenderized with grain at the end of the harvest. Even animal producers will say that beef or other meats raised entirely on grass does not taste as good to the average consumer.
So fully grass fed animals are called natural and growers who give their animals access to grass sometimes will call their meat natural. If you are particular, you have to investigate the details. Websites for natural meats will be very explicit.
Animal types that are frequently grown by small producers and raised natural, grass fed, and organically are beef, buffalo, goat, venison, lamb, and chickens. These producers will talk about land sustainability by not using pesticides or fertilizers that will get into the water system. They also point out that animals are humanely handled and harvested as opposed to some brutal factory processes.
A typical advertisement for natural grass fed meat is found on this buffalo site which claims its beef is (http://wildideabuffalo.com/?gclid=CJfasMbHhK4CFaYaQgodCznX2Q)
• 100% grass-fed only
• 100% antibiotic & hormone free
• 100% free roaming
• 100% non-confined
• 100% humanely field harvested
These natural meats are availabe to anyone, but the costs are greatly increased by the specialized dry ice shipping and containers required. It becomes more economical when you can order half an animal. In some communities these grass fed animals are ordered by local markets and restaurants.
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Our Obligation to Natural Food
Posted by: | CommentsIf you eat naturally meaning a lot of food that comes out of the ground, you are getting the best Nature, God, or the Universe can provide. This food and Mother Nature gave its all while growing to create the hundreds of ingredients that can benefit and help make any animal or living being perform at their peak performance.
It would be good karma to acknowledge that in picking these foods you are thankful for the opportunity to build your own body at the sacrifice of another living thing. Killing plants is not considered inhumane, but you realize that they were picked so that you could eat them.
Acknowledging that this food has been provided for your sustenance helps you identify your connection to nature and the earth. We all must flourish and grow stronger. It is part of the design of nature as stated by Darwin that we are in a struggle for survival of the fittest.
It would be great if we used the energy derived from these natural ingredients to give back. The ancients said that God can only give and man can only receive. But we know that after we have recognized that we have received, we sometimes want to give back. We want to make a contribution to the community. We want to help our fellow man.
Just having the bounty of nourishing food that can make us strong should help us appreciate the circle of life. We’re born, we’re nourished, we have the right to pursue happiness, and we die. Gratitude is one of the fine ingredients of living a happy life.
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The Value of Others’ Lives to Us
Posted by: | CommentsSome people we know are as part of us as our own hearts. Without them life does not have the same meaning. 
In mourning the passing of a family member it brings to mind how important some of the people are that we value. There are friends and family with whom I can exchange experiences or thoughts and only they would get the true significance to me.
This exchange comes from our common experiences and time spent expressing ourselves to them. One of my friends and I have been skiing together for 30 years and we can express what a new ski or surf event means to us that only the other would truly understand.
My daughters and I have had so many experiences where just the mention of a word makes us laugh out loud in remembrance. We can often tease a mate, family, or friend with an insight that only we would understand. We can ask them for an opinion or advice that we might only trust coming from them.
Giving to life can have the same experience. The more you give, the more you treasure your daily opportunities. Selfishly helping others creates a warm feed back that nourishes our existence. Life can be a lonely scary experience and surrounding ourselves with the gifts of giving can create the comfort we need to feel we are not alone.
We are at one with everything on earth, but we feel it more with some than with others.
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Peak Performance from Fitness and Happiness
Posted by: | CommentsDeveloping health, fitness, and happiness has added benefits. We perform at our optimum when all our systems are working at their best. How often do we say “I would love to do it, but I am too tired or I don’t have the energy?” 
Energy is a key to accomplishing our purpose and making our life better. It is no small matter and most of the global population uses props to get their energy. We drink coffee, smoke, eat sugar, and consume energy drinks just to get through the day. With these props we are probably not tapping our most creative energy.
Our best energy comes from pursuing our passions. The energy produced from being happy with the activities in which we are engaged produces both creative and problem solving power as we are in the flow or zone. Energy is best served with balanced alpha and beta waves pulsing through our brain.
These waves are supported with healthy nutrition and exercise. The brain thrives on oxygen which is plentiful in alkaline based blood flow. Eating natural is the best path to an alkaline based body and blood system. Exercise burns muscle and rebuilds it by cleaning out the inflammation in our system and replacing it with healthy cytokenes. Our whole body will humm with proper nutrition and daily muscle burning.
When we take care of ourselves it certainly creates a degree of happiness. So creating a base of eating healthy and exercising soon leads to better attitude, feeling better, and performing at our best. Your next excuse is going to be “time” but that’s a story for another day.
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Why Are We Too Lazy to Be Fit?
Posted by: | CommentsHard exercise is tiring and sometimes we feel we can’t take away from our other responsibilities. Time is another excuse we often create for not getting fit. 
Time and energy are both requirements of being fit. To create time and energy we have to eat healthy and eliminate some other activities. We waste hours everyday looking at emails, texting, watching TV, and so on. With 24 hours in a day, there is time to create space for activities that in the long run will give us more time–on earth.
Create more energy by drinking more water and eating less sugar. Eat clean protein. Have at least one or two salads a day with maybe tuna or chicken added. The lighter food, more protein, and added hydration will decrease the energy used for digestion and add to the energy we have for mental tasks.
Exercise requires mental energy because it requires enthusiasm. The more mentally active we feel the more likely we are to see exercise as an avenue to temper our high energy and to mellow it. Mellow high energy is the precursor for creativity.
Exercise balances and supports the alpha and beta waves of our brain which foster creativity and logic/calculating. If we are to be high performance individuals we need peak mental energy. Exercise eliminates inflammation which erodes physical capabilities and replaces inflammation with high energy cytokenes that rebuild burned muscle cells and energize the body.
So the way out of laziness is to oxidize and energize all our systems with a good aerobic stimulus. Don’t watch TV, run around the block.
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What Smiling Does for Happiness
Posted by: | CommentsIt’s hard to smile if you’re not happy about something. Smiling usually indicates something has tickled your fancy. So why not use smiling to get out of negative thoughts.
We take life seriously, often too seriously. We have our daily objectives of what must get done today to keep our job or life in order. During the day there will be many obstacles of life events that try to frustrate our progress, like traffic.
We need a smile library. Go through the things in your memories that have made you smile or when you think of them make you smile. Sometimes you can smile with joy just thinking about a certain person. Sometimes you could smile thinking about your favorite dessert. Maybe you got a big check and you felt proud or your child kicked a goal that won a game.
Go to this library to break your mood when life is getting in your way.
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How We Try to Manipulate Happiness
Posted by: | CommentsWith enough money you can buy anything. So we believe, when we are young and sometimes as we grow older.
We know some people who get really rich and are in the public eye get themselves into very unhappy situations. We’re they rich in our minds and not in theirs? Did they give up on improving after they hit a plateau? We might think they had more money than we would need, but did they think they did not have enough money or that with the money, they didn’t get what they needed to fill the hole?
We manipulate happiness buying things even if we don’t think we are rich. We try buying things because at the moment we fill an inkling of richness and want the whole feel of happiness that buying something brings. It often brings that feeling for a few minutes or hours or maybe even weeks.
Food can bring temporary happiness when we don’t have the money or the inclination to go out and buy something. Obesity is certainly the one result of trying to buy a lot of happiness with food. Alcohol and drugs bring on a lot of nervous system relief which feels like happiness. When you are not worried or anxious, that’s almost as good as happiness.
But happiness would be better if we didn’t have to buy, eat, or drink our way to it. Do the dues seem to steep to pay to endeavor doing it the hard and long way? Are we strong enough to take the pain without the medicine of quick reliefs?
What are some of the feelings of happiness? Health, fitness, love, gratitude, charity, generosity, contribution, and self expression to name a few. What do they require? Some real basics would be respecting ourselves, respecting others, wishing well for others, and gratitude for who we are and what we have.
Whether or not we have money or fame we can always be more than we are. We can work on skills and become more skilled. Skills express who we are. When we are engaged in activities that we enjoy and that require our skills we can get into blissful enjoyment. It is also called flow or being in the zone. The body rewards this pursuit with the happiness chemical dopamine and other neurotransmitters. The short cut for a few minutes is cocaine.
Love is probably the best solution because it seriously bathes our entire mind, body and spirit. When we love ourselves because we have the opportunity to self express, enjoy nature, give to others, and receive others’ love, we are living in flow. Our minds are continuously producing dopamine without the need for money, food, or alcohol.
We can start appreciating our selves by taking care of the body nature gave us. In doing so, we become at one with nature, God, the Universe or what ever you want to call it. With the discipline to eat healthy, exercise to burn muscle, and engage in activities that spark our passions we are achieving true happiness that can last years.
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Healthy Eating is the Ultimate Discipline
Posted by: | CommentsEating serves so many purposes. Most people don’t restrict it to the main purpose.
The main purpose would be to get the fuel and recovery we need for burning muscle from strenuous exercise. When man was created, he had the need to survive like all animals by foraging and hunting. He needed lots of pure energy.
He got this energy by eating foods that were available in the ground and that ran around on four feet. Everything was clean and pure. Your body’s needs have not changed. We have only changed our activities.
We have also changed the reasons we eat. We no longer eat just to survive. We eat to handle our emotions. We eat food our body doesn’t recognize. We eat what is cheap and not just what is pure. Our body gets confused and our body gets sick and breaks down.
Few things are more difficult than eating what we need and what is good for us. The result of disciplined eating is more energy all day, better health, longer lives, better performance, more active brains, and happier dispositions.
The discipline of healthy eating can lead to better discipline in other phases of our lives.
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How to Bake the Cake of Happiness
Posted by: | CommentsFor some reason I seem to be stuck on the cake analogy lately, but I have found that happiness requires several ingredients.
You have to have some peace of mind or freedom from anxiety or you are not going to be happy. There are some important requirements and steps that can be taken. I cannot include your need for medication for anxiety but I will assume normal every day stresses of job, family, and future types of anxieties.
You need to have a plan and feel your house is in order. Your finances don’t have to perfect, but you need to be free of worry about impending doom. You have to live within your means. If you can cut back to the point you have savings every month, even if its a dollar, you are there.
Your relationships have to be in order. If you have unresolved issues with people close to you, this will prey on your mind. You have to be in good health. Chronic issues or concern about developing issues can wreak havoc on your nervous system.
If you are clear of health problems, start building better health in the future with healthy eating and exercise. The leanness you will gain, the pride you will feel, and the relaxation that will result from daily exercise will start to build exponential benefits.
Start expressing yourself. You are a wonder of nature. You have the same talents as given to famous people except they have practiced more than you. Start investing time into a passion that expresses who you are. As you build competence you will experience periods of “flow” which is engagement without concern for judgment. The brain produces dopamine as happiness in reward for your efforts.
Having your house in order and creating flow in your life daily produces a very delicious cake.
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Exercise Improves Productivity and Happiness
Posted by: | CommentsExercise is better than a magic pill. It can do things for your mind and body that no other consumable product or activity can equal. The body needs to burn muscle every day to get rid of inflammation and add restorative chemicals to the cells. The mind needs exercise to support the beta and alpha waves that run the left and right brain.
The oxygen renewing rush of heavy breathing energizes all our systems. When we have pumped fresh oxygen into a body that is fit, it creates a unmatched euphoria. Runners call it a high and become addicted to it. When I was running with a community track club, we would see injured runners jogging with casts on their feet.
I need to burn muscle every day now for the tranquility on which my mind seems to thrive. I need that peaceful exhaustion from surfing or running stairs that allows the mellowness to take over my brain. I like to work hard in the morning right up to that time I really need a break.
Exercise refreshes so much better than other habits we form to get relief. After exercise I am fully productive again. The rush of oxygen and draining of excess angst from stressing on creativity flush my system and restart my batteries.
I also have that feeling of accomplishment and elevated self esteem from knowing that I am building fitness, immunity, health, and longevity. I also look better from daily exercise. Nothing like stroking the ego a little. The best time to exercise is when you feel too tired to exercise. Give it a run and you will be happy you did.
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Real Fun Doesn’t Need Alcohol
Posted by: | CommentsWhen ever we think about blowing off some steam, alcohol seems to be part of the equation. One of the reasons we need to blow off steam is that we are not having fun during the week. We really can’t help it if we don’t like our job or if it is too stressful because we need the money.
Real fun comes from stretching your capabilities and reaching new plateaus in self expression or new frontiers in your passionate pursuits. There is risk expressing yourself. It takes as much courage as jumping out of an air plane. I know, I have done both. I used to think that if I conquered things that scared me I would eliminate fear.
I learned you can’t eliminate fear and if you hide, you just live a boring life. You can learn to manager fear. Big time surfers looking at 25 foot waves have lots of fear. They know that death could be the result of their fun. They have practiced competence and apply it to test their capabilities. That’s real fun.
Testing your limits creates adrenaline and the right amount of adrenaline leads to the production of dopamine. Dopamine is your brain neurotransmitter commonly associated with happiness. Now we’re talking. If we could have the right dose of daily adrenaline that produced copious amounts of dopamine, we wouldn’t need alcohol to have fun.
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I Hate Being Bored, and You?
Posted by: | CommentsI hear people say it a lot. What makes things or life boring? Not enough excitement. This is a very subjective word and is probably different for everyone. Excitement for me is challenge. If I don’t have challenge, but in the right degree, I am instantly bored.
Flow is the engagement in activities that are personally challenging but achievable. This causes the production of the brain chemical dopamine or happiness. So maybe I am a dopamine junkie. Being engaged in activities that are challenging, but where I can win make me happy. I like to write, surf, design websites, cook new things, read, and meet new people.
I have more mind time by eliminating distractions that require a lot of brain ram and can rob me of creativity. My prime time is involved in creativity because that’s what makes me happy. My down time is refreshing and creating the time for my nervous system/brain to rest. If I fill that time with TV, text messaging, social networking, I am using up my refresh time.
Exercise is one of the best refreshers. Then you need to eat healthy so the brain has maximum support and no drag. The digestive system has to work a minimum so it doesn’t take the oxygen and blood needed by the brain. Eating big meals, red meat, sugar, processed foods all create digestion and brain drain.
The final step is the need for courage. Nothing is more risky and scary than laying yourself on the line by expressing yourself. Would you get up in front of an audience and sing acapella? Not me in a million years. I even found it difficult to start writing using the “I”. But laying out who we are to the world without too much fear of judgment is the ultimate challenge.
Whether you are going to open a business, engage in athletics, dance, speak, cook in a restaurant, write poetry, or even consider parenthood, you are laying it out to be judged. This is exciting. If you are not expressing yourself in some way, your life is probably not very exciting and you are wondering why you are bored.
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Can Life Be Fun First, Work Second?
Posted by: | CommentsLet’s see if I can picture your day. You will start with your dash to work picking up some coffee and food on the run. Then you will check your emails. During the day you will watch your smart phone for text messages. The day will be stressful. At night you can’t wait for the first rest with a drink or some TV.
You have approximately 75,000 days on earth. Humans feel best when they are engaging in activities they enjoy that are challenging but manageable. This exercise creates dopamine, our happiness brain chemical. Would nature have created the most pleasurable sensations we can enjoy if she didn’t expect us to use them?
Contribution takes the activity engagement or “flow” to a higher level. The ancients said God can only give and man can only receive. We have learned to be pretty good at asking, “What’s in if for me?” But when man has received enough, he wants to give back. The ancients said this is our purpose. They had very few distractions in their lives and got much closer to understanding what life is all about.
We could emulate them as well. We have too many distractions. We don’t prioritize engaging in activities that really make us humm and using our talents to make others happier and more productive. Self expression is fun. Contributing is fun. They require getting out of our comfort levels, which is risky. Risk is an adrenaline rush we love and when it doesn’t kill us, makes life exciting.
The best way to introduce some new exciting activities would be to take out some existing activities. Free your mind of some of the things on which it always focuses. Spend some time out doors looking at a sunset and see if you can handle being with yourself for a half hour. If not, that is a little scary. It might be a clue as to the direction you can take to get out of your comfort zone and find yourself. You might find it very risky.
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Fitness is a Key to Staying Young
Posted by: | CommentsYou can feel old at any age. As soon as you bend over and it hurts or you try and carry something and its difficult or you have to run a short distance and it almost kills you, you say, “Man I’m Getting Old”.
Your quality of life at any age is dependent on being able to do things you want to do. On a trip over seas after college a friend and I witnessed all these retirees as tourists. It seemed they could barely walk let alone put in the rigorous hours of touring they had probably dreamed about all their lives.
Even as your kids get older there are things you might want join in and participate with them. There is skiing, baseball games, jogs around the park, hikes, and bike rides. When your kids have kids you are going to need lots of energy to keep up with the really young ones.
Fitness slips away slowly and is tough to get back. You are less inclined to work yourself hard or go through the pain the further you let it go. Exercise, stretching, and aerobics hurt when you are not in shape. The least you could do is when you wake up, spend ten minutes before coffee stretching and doing a few push ups. If you are not stretched, you will pull muscles and get strains when you try something more vigorous.
Then you need an aerobic activity. Walking is good and least of the painful exercises. Try and throw in some runs, bike riding, or hiking after work or on the weekend. If you belong to a gym, don’t let your membership go to waste.
If you are in shape, you can take up new sports in your 50’s and 60’s. If you are not in shape, you can feel old in your 30’s.
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