A Benefit of Meditation is Survival in the 21st Century

In his PBS special What Are You Hungry For? which aired on WEDU, Tampa Florida, Deepak Chopra, Board Certified Physician, Mind-Body expert and teacher says the deepest hunger that we have is for happiness and spiritual fulfillment. Everything that you strive for in your life is for one goal, happiness. Happiness is the goal of all other goals. What does this have to do with physical health and weight loss? When we are not happy and spiritually fulfilled, we turn to food to fill the void which leads to over weight and obesity. Many social scientists have done research on happiness and have come up with what they call the happiness formula.

Happiness Formula….

H = S C V

• H – Happiness
• S - Set point in the brain (how much happiness are we naturally born with –  40 – 50 %)
• C - Conditions of living (current material living conditions – 7 – 12%)
• V - Voluntary choices (how we choose to spend our time, our entertainment , how we choose to relate to other people , our choices about nutrition and exercise – 40 – 50%).

• physical activity