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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Evening <em>Meditation</em></h2>
<h3 data-menu="">Good Evening Spirit World • Mother Nature • God • Universe.</h3>
<p>Thank you for another day of learning.<br />
Thank you for keeping me healthy and happy.<br />
Thank you for my friends and family.<br />
Thank you for my safe and warm home.<br />
I forgive all the people who have hurt me and leave them to the care of the universe.</p>
<h3 data-menu="">You can include in your thanks:</h3>
<p>Thank you for a good day, and for achieving my various goals<br />
For keeping me on track with my new positive health regime<br />
For keeping me healthy and happy</p>
<h3 data-menu="">You can include in your goals:</h3>
<p>Sleep well tonight and let go of my day<br />
Similar goals for the following day, as you would do in the morning<br />
Forgive myself for my imperfections, I am human, and life is a learning journey<br />
Enjoy the love and kindness I receive from the universe/ my family / my friends (you can list people here).</p>


Evening meditation

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<h2 style="text-align: center;">Morning <em>Meditation</em></h2>
<h3>Good Morning Spirit World • Mother Nature • God • Universe.</h3>
<p>Thank you for another beautiful day ahead.<br />
Thank you for keeping me healthy and happy.<br />
Thank you for my friends and family.<br />
Thank you for my safe and warm home.<br />
I forgive all the people who have hurt me and leave them to the care of the universe.</p>
<h3>For today, I would like to set my goals<br />
<small>Set your goals. Below are a few examples</small></h3>
<p>Stay on track with my healthy lifestyle to reach my goal (healthier digestion, weight loss, hormone balance, etc)<br />
Remain calm in all situations<br />
Eat mindfully / not eat emotionally<br />
Be productive at work without worrying<br />
Be kind to my body and nurture it<br />
Accept my human emotions whether it is joy, anger, sadness or fear, etc<br />
Dear Spirit World/Mother Nature/God/Universe, please help me reach my goals/desires if they are right for me.</p>


Morning meditation

<p>Hello Everyone,</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter who you are, your age, or your resilience, we all cry and need to cry.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s an essential release for grief, sadness, stress, anger, happiness, sentimentality, and tiredness.</p>
<p>Sometimes though, we can cry for no obvious reason and wonder what is going on with ourselves!</p>
<p>So many people tell me they feel like crying and don&#8217;t know why. They say they have a good life, many great friends, a wonderful family, and good health. They are flummoxed because they have lots to look forward to and cannot understand why they burst out crying at any moment.</p>
<p><strong>In this post, I am going to explain one of the biggest reasons why people often feel like crying for no obvious reason.</strong></p>
<h2><a href="#Why Do You Feel Like Crying For No Reason?">Why Do You Feel Like Crying For No Reason?</a></h2>
<h2><a href="#How Does Gut Health Affect Mood?">How Does Gut Health Affect Mood?</a></h2>
<h2><a href="#What Affects Gut Health?">What Affects Gut Health?</a></h2>
<h2><a href="#Gut Health, Sleep, and Mood">Gut Health, Sleep, and Mood</a></h2>
<h2><a href="#What Is the Best Diet for Mood Balance?">What Is the Best Diet for Mood Balance?</a></h2>
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<h2 id="Why Do You Feel Like Crying For No Reason?">Why Do You Feel Like Crying For No Reason?</h2>
<p>Firstly, if you often feel like crying and don’t know why, you are not alone. It is a common problem for many people, along with poor gut health and inflammation. You may have heard me talk about the two-way link between the brain and the gut. This link is a &#8220;super-highway&#8221; of nerves connecting your brain and gut, and they constantly transmit information.</p>
<p>Do you recognize the need to nip to the bathroom before a public speaking event? Or get &#8216;butterflies&#8217; in your stomach before meeting someone? That&#8217;s your brain-gut connection at work!</p>
<p>And if your gut-brain connection is out of balance, it may be the reason why you feel like crying.</p>
<h2 id="How Does Gut Health Affect Mood?">How Does Gut Health Affect Mood?</h2>
<p>Your gut microbiome contains over 100 trillion microorganisms. One of their many tasks is to produce chemical messengers called neurotransmitters for mental health.</p>
<p>These include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Serotonin &#8211; the happy hormone</li>
<li>Dopamine &#8211; pleasure and motivation hormone</li>
<li>GABA &#8211; for calming the mind</li>
<li>Melatonin &#8211; the sleep hormone</li>
</ul>
<p>If your gut can&#8217;t produce the right amounts of these hormones because of inflammation or an overgrowth of unfriendly bacteria, your emotions can be affected.</p>
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<h2 id="What Affects Gut Health?">What Affects Gut Health?</h2>
<p>Gut health can be affected by:</p>
<ul>
<li>Stress: This is the most common cause of gut problems. Chronic stress disrupts every stage of the digestive process, leading to an imbalance in gut bacteria, aka gut dysbiosis.</li>
<li>Antibiotics: These powerful drugs don&#8217;t discriminate between good and bad bacteria. If you&#8217;re taking antibiotics or have a history of using them, it is wise to do everything possible to <a href="https://admin.eatburnsleep.com/what-is-gut-health/">support gut health</a>.</li>
<li>Poor sleep</li>
<li>Over-exercising</li>
<li>Alcohol</li>
<li>Poor dietary choices: Gut bacteria are sensitive to sugar, artificial sweeteners, additives, emulsifiers, and other ingredients in Ultra-Processed Foods (UPFs).</li>
</ul>
<p>So, the next time you feel like crying and can&#8217;t explain why, consider your gut. Is it time for a microbiome reset?</p>
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<h2 id="Gut Health, Sleep, and Mood">Gut Health, Sleep, and Mood</h2>
<p>As well as being the “happy hormone”, serotonin is also a precursor for melatonin, the sleep hormone. This is why poor gut health can affect both mood <em>and</em> the quality of your sleep.</p>
<p>You might find yourself in a vicious circle with poor gut health and lack of sleep because each affects the other. And both of them can make you feel like crying for no reason! The best thing to do is improve your gut health while upgrading your sleep habits. Working on both aspects creates a positive spiral that will, in a short time, help you feel more emotionally stable.</p>
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<h2 id="What Is the Best Diet for Mood Balance?">What Is the Best Diet for Mood Balance?</h2>
<p>I always advocate for a lifestyle change rather than just a diet because how you move and think affects your gut health as much as food does.</p>
<p>I recommend an anti-inflammatory lifestyle based around:</p>
<ul>
<li>Foods that support blood sugar regulation and a healthy gut microbiome.</li>
<li>Anti-inflammatory foods.</li>
<li>Foods that supply brain nutrients like omega-3, B vitamins, and antioxidants.</li>
<li>Gentle daily movement.</li>
<li>A positive mindset.</li>
<li>Daily relaxation and stress management.</li>
</ul>
<p>A balanced microbiota in the gut lowers <a href="https://admin.eatburnsleep.com/chronic-inflammation/">chronic inflammation</a> and promotes mental well-being.</p>
<p>It may seem obvious now, but many people are surprised to learn why they feel like crying when all is good in their world. But in the same way that your gut bacteria can make you happy, an imbalance in the microbiome can impact your emotions in a less-than-positive way.</p>
<p>It is why gastrointestinal disorders like Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Ulcerative Colitis, and Crohn’s Disease often cause <a href="https://admin.eatburnsleep.com/depression-anxiety-gut-health/">depression and anxiety</a>.</p>
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<p><strong>Improving gut health improves brain health.</strong></p>
<p>It&#8217;s science!</p>
<p>Want to read more about this topic? You might enjoy:</p>
<p><a href="https://admin.eatburnsleep.com/why-are-you-moody-and-irritable/">Why Are You Moody &amp; Irritable?</a></p>
<p><a href="https://admin.eatburnsleep.com/how-does-sleep-help-with-inflammation/">How Does Sleep Help With Inflammation?</a></p>
<p><a href="https://admin.eatburnsleep.com/anti-inflammation-pioneers-podcast/">Podcast – Why Women Feel More Pain</a></p>
<p>Are you ready to feel happy once again? Start living the anti-inflammatory way &#8211; <a href="https://admin.eatburnsleep.com/improve-gut-health/">find out more about our membership options now</a>.</p>
<p>With love,</p>
<p>Yalda x</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Yalda Alaoui is a qualified Naturopathic Nutritionist (with a foundation in Biomedicine) who studied with the <a href="https://www.naturopathy-uk.com/">College of Naturopathic Medicine</a> in London. She has spent over a decade performing groundbreaking research in chronic inflammation and gut health.</p>


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