The 4 Key Aspects of Building a Nourishing Life

How your physical, social, intellectual and spiritual environments are the difference between floundering and flourishing

The environments you inhabit influence every aspect of your life, shaping physical health, emotional wellbeing, intellectual evolution and spiritual growth.

We are living, breathing organisms, constantly in flux, and our environment is a huge determinative factor for our sense of fulfilment and growth. Over the years, I’ve some fairly major shifts in order to align my environment with my authentic needs through several key phases of my life.

One thing that’s become clear to me — and the research backs this — is that your environment is key to the level of contentment and nourishment you experience in life.

And this goes beyond considerations such as air pollution or population density to four different aspects of the notion of ‘environment’.

Whether it’s having the right amount and type of social connections, or experiencing the right level of calm or buzz in your day-to-day — environment is key. And to the extent we can, aligning our environment with our individual needs during a particular phase of life can be transformative.