Yep. That's you! You are built to be happy.
Back in the 1970s, Researcher Candice Pert, with her doctorate in pharmacology from Johns Hopkins, discovered that the receptors of hormone stimulants are not only in the brain as long believed. They are in every part of your body. That means you have bliss and happiness receptors in every nook and cranny of your body. You can feel joy in pretty much every cell! Literally!
So why do you walk around feeling doom and gloom? And what can you do about it?
More than you think you can do. And please accept my apologies for being blunt here.
Two aspects keep you from bliss:
- What you eat
- What you think
You are what you eat.
The most straightforward rule to follow around food is to eat food. Real food. Food is not made in factories. Food is created in nature. Frozen is closer to nature than canned. And fresh is better than frozen. Local is good. Organic local is better. Live as close to those guidelines as possible without beating yourself up when you can't.
Do your food choices make a difference on a cellular level?
Yes, they do.
In 2005, Bruce Lipton, with his Ph.D. in developmental biology from the University of Virginia, published his book, The Biology of Belief. His research shows that contrary to popular belief, the nucleus is not the cell's brain. Instead, the cell wall decides how the cell will function. During his experiments, he noted that when cells were exposed to toxins or poisons in a Petrie dish, they would shrink from the bad stuff. The opposite was true for good nutrients. The cells move towards nourishment. If a cell cannot figure out what it is, it is not food. Chemically engineered "food" is not food. It is filler.
Even better, a stem cell, the neutral cell that's like a blank canvas to become any cell that the body says it needs, forms into a kidney cell if exposed to the chemicals that make kidneys, for example. So this experiment shows us that the nutrients we feed our cells can cause them to change because of the "chemical soup" around them.
I'm not kidding. If the very oldest cell in your body is 17 years old, and new cells are being created daily, any improvement in what you eat will give you a 100% better body in at most 17 years.
Next, you are what you think.
Your cells are swimming in a soup of hormones created by your emotions. The more excited you become, the more "excited" hormones are produced, and, as Dr. Pert proved, the more receptors become excited!
Cells can become addicted to the hormones of stress and agitation, too. That's why you may be trying very hard to stay upbeat or away from dangerous situations, yet you find yourself dragged into a bad situation. Think about that friend who always chooses a job that doesn't honor the boundaries between work and home life—or constantly getting into an abusive relationship. Their body craves what is familiar to them.
Here's another thing. Flip that coin and think about that person who always has doors opened for them. They always come out "smelling like a rose." Can that be the same addiction? Can that be possible for you?
Yes. Yes, it can. All you need to do is to change what is familiar to you. It would be best if you became comfortable getting the good things in life. You must expect everything to always work out for you.
And that can be harder for some than others because you must go back to the original belief that had you believing that life had to be hard, that good people aren't rich, or whatever is keeping you from getting what you want in life.
Because I'm here to tell you that you don't want something without having the ability to get it, and if you don't have what you want, it's because you are living with a program or belief from the past.
And that's what you need to change for lasting change. But first, you need to change your belief or programming.
What better time to make a firm decision than now is the time to get what you want? Is this the year you are ready to say Yes to yourself?
Please pass this along to friends who are ready for something different.