Happy

You might be pooping wrong. That is, you’re probably pooping wrong if you aren’t using a squatty potty on your traditional toilet. These are big claims, especially if you’ve been pooping your whole life (which you have).

Traditional toilets cramp our intestines, making it harder for our stool to pass through. Squatty potties, on the other hand, allow our insides to straighten out–which is how we’ve been pooping since the beginning of humanity: by squatting. 

When it comes to being happy, we are perhaps the universe’s biggest procrastinators. So let’s not waste another moment, and be happy now…

We keep telling ourselves that we’ll be happy when we achieve this or that. When we get married or have a career, when we become parents or move into that dream house, or when we get away from a bad relationship, and so on and so forth… Noble dreams, yes, but to be happy, you just have to make yourself happy now.

If you want your walls to spread joy and make you and everyone at home happier, then here is what you need to do…

The idea of a vacation helping you to refresh your brain and recharge your battery is a universally accepted one, and with good reason…

A well-fed bee is a happy bee, say biologists at Queen Mary University of London. Any beekeeper who truly loves honeybees can distinguish a happy hive from a sad one. The song that emanates from the honeybee community tells all.

There’s no thrill like the buzz you got when you first learned to bike. Pedalling away madly, with the wind rushing through your hair – that rush of riding a bike for the first time is incomparable. However, riding a bike is always fun. The thrill settles down, but the exercise and the fresh air are always a guarantee. And biking or cycling, whatever you may call it, is good for physical, physiological and mental health -- for a healthy mind makes for a healthy body and vice versa.

The physical benefits of pedaling

Happiness is healthiness!! This statement speaks volumes of truth in so many aspects. We often forget that we have more than just physical health; what about the mental and emotional health? When you truly discover how the three all affect you and how they rely on one another you can begin to truly heal. Our emotions and stresses can cause us to become ill. A lot of people struggle with depression and are placed on medication, but I’m sorry to say there is no such thing as a happy pill. So what is there to do about it?

Mentally, turning gardens into horticultural war zones for battling insects and plant diseases as enemies can lessen the joyfulness of gardening.

Cultivating a harmonious attitude towards nature is the most skillful way of gardening. Avoid using unnecessary chemicals and poisons. This doesn’t mean allowing creepy crawlers to devour all your vegetables and flowers.

I’d like to share a few concepts and tricks that I’ve learned from organic gardening workshops that have rooted deeply in me, which makes gardening more joyful—even when something goes wrong.