Your mind and body are always working with each other. Did you know that how you treat your body cannot only affect your mood and motivation, but can affect your ability to stay aligned with your goals?
Let’s break down how a proper diet, getting enough exercise, and sunlight just improve our physical health, but work together to support your mental and emotional well-being to help you reach your goals.
Nourish Your Brain: How Food Shapes Your Mood and Mindset
Food isn’t just fuel. It’s a building block for a better you. Every bite he takes, and the signals to your brain, the influence:
- Your mood
- Your focus
- Your energy
- How you regulate your emotions
- How you handle stress
You’re subconscious mind is heavily influenced by what we feel and experience, but also with how we treat our bodies. If your blood sugar is crashing, or you’re dehydrated, or experiencing a nutrient deficiency, it’s hard to stay positive, focused, motivated, or aligned with your goals and dreams. Never mind taking action to make them happen since Bentley doesn’t just follow the sky and push the start.
Here’s what you can eat to manifest a better mindset:
- Omega-3 fatty acids
These are found in salmon and other fish, walnuts, grass, fit beef, eggs, Chia, seeds, flax seeds, an array of beans and lentils.
These support:
- brain cell health
- Emotional stability
- Reduce anxiety
- Improved mood
- Complex carbs
Whole grains, like oats, quinoa, and brown rice helped stabilize blood sugar. This also ate some stabilizing emotions. If you’ve ever been “hangry”, then it goes without saying how our blood sugar affects your mood, I can make you want to flip over a dinner table.
- Antioxidants and vitamins
Foods like berries, spinach, peppers, and citrus help reduce inflammation in your brain.
B vitamins, zinc, magnesium, and vitamin D and D, support energy, focus, and emotional balance.
Tip: start your morning with a smoothie, packed with fruit, greens, and a healthy fat source, such as peanut butter, avocado, or coconut milk. This house stabilize your mood, support, brain health, taste great, and helps to keep your subconscious mind from taking all before noon. Nut butters can also help you keep full longer.
Always consult with a doctor before adding vitamin supplements not found in food to your diet.
How Exercise Rewires Your Brain
Exercises one of the fastest ways to shift your mood to a more positive one because it alters your brain chemistry in real time. Hear me out.
When you exercise, your brain releases:
- Endorphins(natural mood boosters)
- Serotonin(emotional stability hormones)
- Dopamine(your motivation and reward system)
These “ happy chemicals” help subconscious mind to feel safe, supported and capable to handle the tasks that you need to get done to help reach your goals. All of these are essential for manifesting. How so?
Because when your mind is in a positive motivated mood, you’re more inspired to take actions toward reaching your goals. The more action you take, more positive habits are formed to create consistency, needed to reach them.
Unfortunately, a lot of manifestation coaches teach that if you just focus on things hard enough they fall out of the sky thanks to the universe. That’s not how success is created.
Taking action, motivation, and being consistent towards accomplishing your goals is how you reach them. It doesn’t come from magic or if you journal about it 5×55 times that it will just show up. Things require time and effort. Being in the right mindset supports that.
Let’s examine various types of exercise and how they can prime you for improved manifestation ability.
Exercise Activities for Mental Health and Manifestation
- Cardio
Walking, jogging, cycling, or any cardio activity to get your heart rate going releases endorphins. Does can’t help you clear, mental fog, and being clear about your desires is the first steps of manifestation.
- Yoga and stretching
These practices regulate your nervous system, reduce cortisol, which is distress hormone, and help you to stay grounded. They are exceptionally helpful if you are spending a lot of time at a desk.
A regulated nervous system allows for a more receptive self-conscious. And our subconscious minds become more aligned with our desires. It seeks out ways to make them happen. Seeing opportunities and resources such as an ad for a course to help get that promotion is the basis of the universal law of inspired action that a lot of new age thinkers teach.
It’s not the universe dropping something in your lap. The more you focus on your goals as if they have been accomplished the more subconscious adopts that idea, and we’ll start looking for ways to bring it to life. You’ll begin to notice ways to manifest your goals that seem like “a-ha!” moments.
- Strength training
Lift and weight builds confidence and stamina to do the hard things needed to reach our goals. Completing reps creates dopamine in our bodies, which increases our satisfaction when we accomplish our goals, and boost the motivation to do so. And also reinforces your identity of someone who follows through, and can make things happen.
The more you live in a identity of the person who has manifested your dreams, the more motivated to take action to do so.
- Dancing
Doing these current dance moves from TikTok, isn’t my ministry, okay? I dance in cursive and to the words instead of the beat, sometimes, but I’m happy to be there.
So even if you dance like a malfunctioning, Roomba, know that it boost the dopamine serotonin, which helps to stabilize emotions and increase your motivation.
Taking a 20 minute walk outside is one of the simplest, most effective mood improving habits that you can build because it’s like a “buy one get one” deal. Why? Because getting son has multiple health benefits.
How Sunlight Regulates Your Mood, Sleep, and Subconscious
Sunlight is one of the most underrated tools for mental and emotional well-being, and it’s not just because clouds are pretty to look at.
Your brain loves the sunlight because it helps regulate:
- Serotonin(mood)
- Melatonin(sleep)
- Circadian rhythm(energy plus focus)
Here’s why sunlight matters:
- vitamin D boost
Vitamin D support, emotional stability and reduce the symptoms of depression. The sun is a natural source of vitamin D. Even 10 to 20 minutes a day of natural sunlight absorption can make a difference.
- Serotonin activation
Sunlight increases serotonin. Is the same “happy chemical” the regulates mood, happiness, and emotional stability. Many antidepressants work by increasing serotonin activity in your body. It’s literally a natural mood booster.
- Getting better sleep equals a better mindset
Sunlight helps regulate, melatonin, which boost free programming your subconscious to align with your manifestations. Rest is not a reward. Make sure to peep my post on how improving your sleep, hygiene, improves your mood, and tips to get better rest.
Tip: try “ sunlight snacking”. Step outside for five minutes or so a few times a day. It adds up, and it counts.
If sunlight is hard to access, a silent lab can’t help. They are also helpful in combating seasonal depression. I also have a blog on that too. Check it out for tips on how to deal with winter blues Aka seasonal depression.
How Diet, Sun, and Exercise Ties into Manifestation
Manifestation isn’t just a monster or making vision board and reciting affirmations. When your physical habits support your brain and nervous system, your subconscious becomes more receptive to:
- New beliefs that align with your manifestations
- New habits to help you to reach your goals by taking action
- New identities instead of line with your future self
- New opportunities to open doors for you accomplish your dreams
Here’s how:
- Better mood equals better thoughts
When your brain chemistry is balanced, you’ll feel better mentally and emotionally. It’s easier to think positive and stay hopeful towards making your goals happen.
- You need energy to take action
Manifestation requires inspired action to go after your goals, despite a lot of new age leaders teaching that anything a desire to fall in the sky if you think long and hard enough. Not having enough energy to get through today can definitely influence how much we’re able to accomplish.
Any step in the right direction is still progress, but not if you don’t have enough energy to get out the bed.
4. Reduced stress offers more clarity
A regulated nervous system helps you make a land decision decisions towards what you feel good about instead of fear based ones. If you have read my blog on healthier stops your manifestations in their tracks, then you know that your self-conscious mind resists helping you to manifest what you are afraid of or have negative thoughts towards.
Small Habits Create Big Shifts
You don’t need a full lifestyle, overhaul, a 30 step routine, or become a wellness school overnight. All you need a small, consistent actions that form habits to support your brain, body, and goals.
TLDR:
- Adding at least one nutrient dense meal
- Taking a short walk
- Sun snacking
- Stretching for five minutes
- Drinking more water
- Going to bed 30 minutes earlier
These tiny shifts compound, and helped to make manifestation easier and faster, fostering a more natural process for you to reach your goals and accomplish your dreams.
Building positive habits to make it happen isn’t an overnight thing. Neither is manifesting. I’ve included some of my posts and articles below to help boost your manifesting game. I’d love to have you check them out if you haven’t already.
Your mind body are on the same team. Support one, and the other follows.
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