Eating dark chocolate has been proven to shift our moods gradually. How can something that we eat affect how we feel?

While nutritional psychiatry is a growing branch of study, it is important to first understand how our physiology works before understanding how nutrition affects both our mind and body.

Brain is our CPU. It is capable to send instructions to different parts of the body for different tasks, including breathing or running or instructing your arm to pick that banana on that table right in front of you. It is also responsible for how we feel at a given moment of time. So how does the brain send such instructions and how does it affect our mood?

Most of us get busy with our lives and knowingly or unknowingly, have slipped into autopilot mode at some point or the other. So what is autopilot mode and how do I know if I’m functioning in autopilot mode?

If your supervisor at work ask you to start the coffee machine so that all of you can enjoy a nice hot cup of coffee, you could either randomly press all the available buttons in the machine and let the machine start after n number of tries or, you can take a moment and try to understand the machine and press the right buttons in the right order and let the coffee pour out of the machine.

It was during COVID times that one of my friends suggested the movie Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga. Iceland got into my mind after this movie and I added Iceland to my bucket list. After few months I found a travel partner: one of my ex classmates K. We kick started planning and later on, we got another travel buddy: S. As I was busy and mostly tired during those days and as Chat GPT was getting popular, I tried to generate a three day itinerary with it and later customized it after further research and analysis. I was skeptical about relying entirely on AI for our trip. My travel mates confirmed the itinerary and the three of us decided to spend three days in Iceland. In Iceland I wanted to experience the nature of Iceland, watch the whales, visit the tiny elves houses etc. But now that I know more about this country (with the research part), I want to experience even more of the wonders of this country located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in the northern hemisphere.