Food has the holistic ability to balance our hormones which affects your mood. This has a profound impact on our emotional well-being. Avoid processed foods, alcohol, and refined sugars. Focus on whole foods such as fruits and vegetables. Get a variety of lean proteins and include healthy whole grains. Providing your body and mind with healthy nutrients will give your more clarity, energy, and balance to your life, creating a happier, healthier you.
Exercise
When you exercise on a regular basis you feel less stressed, anxious and happier. Exercise releases dopamine a neurotransmitter that is necessary for feeling pleasure and happiness. This eases stress and energizes you. Along, with boosting your confidence!
Sleep
Getting a proper amount of sleep each night plays a huge role in ensuring a high quality of life. You feel better when you get the right amount of sleep each night. This plays an important role in your physical health and mental clarity. During sleep growth hormones our released to repair cellular tissue. If your body isn't given the time to secrete growth hormones to repair cellular tissue your body does the opposite by releasing the hormone cortisol. This affects weight gain, accelerates the aging process and increases chances of depression. Get on a healthy sleep routine for your body to release proper amounts of growth hormones so you can feel healthy, reduce weight gain and feel happier.
Meditation
Meditation creates inner peace and calmness. It helps you let go of those circling thoughts that keep you from sleeping at night. This helps you have a deeper more refreshing sleep. Meditating can also help improve your memory, awaken the creative parts of your brain and reduce anxiety. Studies have shown that meditating can re-wire your brain so that the neural pathways responsible for fear and anxious thoughts are weakened. One of the most amazing benefits of meditation is that it can make you a kinder and more loving person. What better way to attract more happiness into your life.
Gratitude
Embracing gratitude is a feeling. It is a powerful tool to help change your perspective. A helpful and easy exercise you can do to practice gratitude is to make a list of all the things you are grateful for in your life. Start a gratitude journal. This will allow you to look back at how far you have come over the years. You will be able to see the challenges you've overcome and how resilient you are. This helps by taking you off autopilot and back into mindfulness. This gives you the ability to stay in the present moment; Which is the key to feeling grateful and living a healthier lifestyle. Once you start embracing gratitude you will become a happier individual. the relationships around you will be healthier, you will feel more in control of your life instead of life just happening to you. This takes you out of the victim mindset and allows you to truly experience life.