**This week’s article is a portion of my new book, Being Human, which was featured on Maria Shriver’s website this week.**
I was relaxing in my living room in Michigan on a humid afternoon in the summer of 2012, laptop on lap, ear buds in ears, listening to a talk from the 2011 Innate Health Conference held in London 6 months earlier. 
The speaker said something that blew my mind. It was incredibly simple and delivered with no emphasis or fanfare whatsoever.
He said that the default, innate nature of all human beings is wellbeing…
