where is the happiness? This is the question posed in Disputandum

Covid, inflammation, unemployment… It seems that fear is indeed the crisis of the century. But in this storm, some look to happiness regardless. So how to do it, in what ways to cultivate happiness, how to take charge of yourself and cultivate the art of yourself in a highly degraded context? This is the theme of the show Disputandum.

If happiness is protean, then there are several paths to achieve it. Happiness represents both a state of good health and well-being, a state of fulfillment and serenity. Happiness can be found if you stop fighting your fears and welcome them. And finally, happiness is the “ability to see the future”, according to the psychoanalyst Frederic Duplessy.

But in a society that has to face successive crises in the short term, it is not easy to cultivate this notion of happiness. “During the glorious thirties, that is to say in the sixties, we were lucky enough to be able to see far for our children, we could change our social status from one generation to another, we could, despite the inflation, owning a house and crossing the street to change jobs or stay in a company for life. Today, it is more difficult and we go from one hysteria to another with information from Covid, to Ukraine, to energy“.

Zone of constraint and zone of influence

So how do you take action in a context that is not conducive to meeting happiness? According to life coach Emma Le Bail, it’s about making the difference between your “constraint zone” and his “area of ​​influence”.

For example, queuing for an hour at a gas station is a constraint zone. It’s not up to us. Conversely, its area of ​​influence is defined by the ability to act on it. “It allows you to know how a fear is real, true and useful. Thus, we realize that among all the fears that we can go through, no more than 10% of them are really useful fears”, continues Emma Le Bail. It is therefore towards its zones of influence that it is a question of placing its energy.

The fear that prevents happiness is also and above all a matter of the body. We say well “fear in your stomach”, “to have a knotted belly”, “to put the spleen in the court-bouillon” Where “to be worried”. We literally feed our fear because our microbiota feeds our emotions (the microbiota is all the microorganisms, bacteria, viruses, parasites and non-pathogenic fungi in our belly).

Thus, the intestinal microbiota would also take part in the communication between the intestine and the brain and influence brain function.. No wonder when we know that our instinct also houses a considerable number of neurons, estimated at 200 million. This enteric nervous system communicates closely with the central nervous system. This is why the intestine is often called our second brain. Taking care of it would improve mood and access to well-being. Consider that 95% of serotonin -a neurotransmitter regulating mood, anxiety or even learning- is produced in the intestine and takes part in the exchanges between the brain and the intestine via the vagus nerve.