Fitness and Flow for Happiness

Most of us put off our right to happiness for a lot of years while we were waiting to achieve, earn, or buy the symbol of true happiness. Not that we weren’t really happy, but we had that gnawing little hunger that said we weren’t quite there. We had a lot to be thankful for, but there had to be more.

My daughter has a boyfriend that happens to have a lot of money through his family. He has more than a lot of us would think was necessary to have a very luxurious life. He is productive and doesn’t have to worry about money. Is he happy? He is very appreciative of what he has but thinks there is just something he is missing.

This is what I have discovered happens when you go looking for happiness.  I have experienced it. What I later found was that happiness can be ignited through discovery of your own body and perfecting it in mind, body, and spirit.  After pushing this more perfect symmetry,  you could find that you become inspired to test new talents and new personal envelopes.

The most exciting envelope to most people who claim to be happy is self expression. Sometimes self expression makes it to the public venue through publication or promotion and sometimes it remains private. The excitement of self expression begins by engaging in something that is challenging, but that you think would test your abilities and perhaps reveal a little more of who you are.

I have always found that recreation through exercise and sports tested who I was. I liked to know what I could accomplish physically.  This ranged from gym work outs to running 60 miles a week, to tough mountain bike regimens to now surfing.  I got the double pop of being outdoors, getting lean, feeling vibrant, developing pride, and escaping from worrisome thoughts in the process.

I later and more recently in the last 6 years have added extremely healthy eating. The loss of 45 pounds as a result not only added to my fitness capabilities, but connected me to the animal kingdom and the world of natural foods.  Healthy eating and fitness can demonstrate a real world of human potential. It can show you how a body can function mentally, physically, and spiritually without the drag of bad foods and digestion issues.

Connecting with your body, nature, and self expression delivers you to a new realm of appreciation and gratitude for what life can be regardless of achievement and acquisitions. It is a self initiated, self measured, self rewarding path. Each activity you participate in whether it be exercise, cooking, writing, painting,  and so forth in which you develop practiced competence in a challenging venue can deliver flow.

Flow is the engagement to the exclusion of distractions or concern for judgment in meaningful activities. In this process, the brain produces dopamine and creates a feeling of purposeful accomplishment. It can become addicting. I have found that the more flow activities I add to my day, the happier and more gratified I become.  Try it.

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