WHY ARE HAPPY PEOPLE HAPPY?
Advice for teens and twenties.
Unfortunately, pervasive happiness comes in large part from biological predisposition due to the different productivity of inherited cerebral chemistry. These problems are exacerbated by lack of exercise, diet, low level allergic reaction, and minor illnesses that are often difficult if not impossible to detect until late in life. Thankfully prescription chemistry, exercise, and diet generally compensate for the average person long enough to change behavior and disposition.
2) Remember that until we mature fully, from the time we start adulthood, in males, lots of previous avenues for positive emotional stimulation are being shut off, and in females, lots of possible avenues for stimulation are being exaggerated. Each by different biochemistry. These changes place extraordinary challenges on our moods as we search for ways to maintain stable pleasurable inputs amidst ether decreasing avenues for getting them, or increasing sensitivity to negatives amidst a scarcity of positives. The only known way to combat it is actually exercise and socialization. But the school system’s emphasis on keeping people of similar age together instead of mixing ages, among a majority of adults, makes it very difficult for both teens and twenties, who are surrounded by people in similar periods of biologically induced psychological confusion.
3) What can you do? Eat clean. Get hard exercise just a few times a week. (Yes, two hour sessions of very physical sex that make you sweat do count a little bit). If you get bored with exercise it just isn’t hard enough in a short enough period. And get drugs if you need to. As a side effect, a good deal of them actually make you quite a bit smarter – albiet slowly. And that’s always good for everyone.
4) Magic bullet? The magic bullet is team sports. It doesn’t matter which one. This allows our very human pack instinct to give you feedback without having to search for ‘spirituality’ or some other private means of achieving the feeling of safety and participation in the pack. (Yes, that’s what that spiritual feeling is caused by and why we like it so much.) As a nerd, I understand the problem with team sports, but hey, I played competitive video games. It works, just gotta get exercise elsewhere. Walking fast while shopping will do it believe it or not. Book on tape and walking fast is great for the brain. ‘Cause that nonsense you were taught from 5th-12th grade, other than math, is probably absolutely useless in today’s society. And because of multiculturalism, the teachers can’t teach you anything meaningful about history. And history is the only reasonable record of what humans actually do, rather than what we wish they did.
Cheers
Source date (UTC): 2013-03-30 06:58:00 UTC
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