Thanks for the inspirational article.

This is a very important question. Moods, emotions & thoughts are very heavily affected by our physical bodies (our physiology). Now, I can't speak about specific genetic imbalances, or illnesses (except to say give EFT a bash, it seems to work on damn near everything else). I can, however, talk about the effects of food.

This is something I got to know pretty well over the last year or so, as I've been cleaning up my own diet. A lot of this is super obvious, and you'll already know it. Even so, it's worth reminding yourself of the effect of things like caffeine, dehydration (which kicks in ridiculously quickly), alcohol (a biggie for depression — hello! it's a depressant!), sugar (the 20min later crash).

Plus other oddities which depend on your personal metabolism. Dairy can muck a lot of systems up. Also wheat. Salt can raise blood pressure (ie, make you more stressed). & don't get me started about artificial preservatives, sweeteners, colours, thickening agents & what not.

When you start loading up on all these things at once? Man, all bets are off.

What I've learned (for myself) is that the more I minimise the above — or at least, if I DO choose to have them, I stay aware of how they're likely to make me feel — the better my moods are. If I drink one night, I know I'll feel a bit crappy the next morning. So I don't take it personally, & I pretty much ignore any sad thoughts that come up — coz I know it's just coz my brain chemistry is out of whack. Being able to remind yourself helps a LOT.

So. Once you figure out which foods affect you in which ways, this helps ENORMOUSLY. You can minimise the stuff that drags you down, getting your physiology in a much better basic state. From there, that puts you in a much better position to start making choices from a stable, generally ok place.