About Eudaimonia Habits

The journey to creating Eudaimonia Habits began in the summer of 2009, when I picked up a book called Born to Run in a beach town bookstore on the Oregon coast. The main lesson from that book is simple but powerful: when humans live according to their ancestral traditions, they have more physical capability and durability than when they live according to a typical modern lifestyle. In the book, native Mexican people ran hundreds of miles at a time in simple sandals cut from old tires, while modern city dwellers were frequently injured despite using the most technologically advanced shoes available.

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The next influential book came a few years later, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, which I read while completing a certificate program with the Nutritional Therapy Association in western Washington. The theme of modern habits causing problems continued, this time examining populations in Florida, Hawaii, Alaska, Canada, Scotland, Switzerland, Kenya, Tanzania, Congo, Australia, New Zealand, Peru, and Ecuador. Each group ate different foods and had different cultures, but there was one commonality: the people who lived according to the habits of their ancestors were thriving, and the people who lived with modern processed foods had far higher levels of disease.

Over time I realized it wasn't just shoes and food causing modern suffering. It was the amount of time spent inside, the soft furniture, and the social isolation. Modern and artificial lighting, fragrances, and behaviors had replaced the lifestyle of our great great grandparents and caused all sorts of physical, mental, and spiritual problems. Luckily, we only need to look to our recent past for the solution, which is the natural and traditional human lifestyle described in these pages. Adaptable for any age, culture, location, and context...if you are human, the Eudaimonia Habits are your birthright.

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This is a movement to raise human well-being around the world, and you can join in by using and sharing the following Eudaimonia Habits resources:

📖 A free summary of Eudaimonia Habits 

📙 The Eudaimonia Habits short paperback book that includes a simple habit journal to help keep you on track 

🤝 A 1 on 1 counsel service via unlimited email correspondence with the founder of Eudaimonia Habits, Benji Hirsh 

Click on one of the links above and claim your human birthright: a thriving mind, body and soul...also known as eudaimonia.

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Cheers to your well-being!

-Benji