Media features
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International Coach Federation talk on Managing Stress
After Skool: Dopamine Fasting to Overcome Addiction & Restore Motivation
Denis Merkas: Can You Massage Away Sadness, Depression and Anxiety?
U of PEACE Executive Ed: Your Power Over Your Happy Brain Chemicals
Best Books Summaries: RomanSergeevCom
Comedy Solo Performance, Loretta Breuning
Your Ups and Downs Are Natural…& also learned
Science of Positivity Growth Retreat
The Ladies Coach: “Comparison” haunts women
Fit for Joy: Happy Brain — Happy Life!
Français Authentique: Le bonheur est-il chimique ?
Instituto del Desarrollo Óptimo: Clase “La ciencia de la felicidad”
Social Comparison, on Boost Your Biology
RVLiving: How Dopamine Creates a Constant Craving for the New
Lisa Alastuey – Hacking Your Brain’s Happy Chemicals
Cómo hackear y entrenar tu cerebro para ser feliz
Why Your Brain Creates Unhappiness (Mandarin Taiwan w subtitles)
MindfulNEWS: Exploring the chemicals in our brain
Townhouse Living: Tame Your Anxiety
Barış Özcan: The Formula of Hapiness : D+O+S+E
Radislav Gandapas: Happy Brain
Italian: Gli ormoni della felicitài
The Inside Edge: Rewire Your Brain
Guest Podcasts
Hear Loretta Breuning’s own podcast at: HappyBrainPodcast.com
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Happy Hour: The Other Side of Depression
Attachment and Threatened Feelings
Fat Burning Man: Break Bad Habits with Brain Science
Roger Dooley: Leverage Brain Chemistry
Yoga Body: Episodes #186 & #293
Status Games: Why We Play and How to Stop
Gennady Polonsky: Teaching others to manage their brain chemicals
Queppet: Masculinity and Status
Sales Tips: Managing Your Brain Chemicals, Motivation & Social Trust
Untangle: On Love and Valentine’s Day
Biohacking with Melanie Avalon
Make Peace with Your Inner Beast
How I Escaped Political Correctness & You Can Too
Inspire Nation: The Science Of Positivity”
VroomVroomVeer: Making Peace with the Animal Inside
The Hidden Why: Self-Denial, Choice, & Free Will
Stop Negative Habits & Steer your way to Health
Eldon Taylor: HABITS OF A HAPPY BRAIN
Rewiring Your Brain for Happiness
Anchors of Health: 7 Habits of a Happy Brain
Shocking Truth About Happiness
Tame Your Anxiety: AYRIAL TalkTime
Hardy Haberland: 4 Brain Chemicals That Make You Happy
The Entrepreneur Way: The Power of Your own Steps
Happy Healthy Hormones with Dr. Chris
Grand Slam Journey on the Mammal Brain
Dr. Barter – Brain Chemistry & Mood
Untangle: Retrain Your Brain to Boost the Happy Chemical
Camden Boyd’s The Happiness Question
James Altucher: Meet Your Happy Chemicals
Fit for Joy: Understanding Anxiety
Arash’s World Podcast: Life in the Middle Lane
Feminine Roadmap: Social Comparison
Awakening Aphrodite: Healthy Habits
World Happiness Fest: 3 Obstacles to Happiness (and how to relieve them)
Lifestyle First: Create happy habits
The Alcohol Minimalist Podcast
Articles
How To Train Your Brain To Go Positive Instead Of Negative
Our brain is not designed to create happiness, as much as we wish it were so. Our brain evolved to promote survival. It saves the happy chemicals (dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin) for opportunities to meet a survival need, and only releases them in short spurts which are quickly metabolized. This motivates us to keep taking steps that stimulate our happy chemicals.
Bustle: 13 Toxic Habits that Make Dating Hard
Loretta Breuning explains oxytocin realistically so you can use it wisely. In the state of nature, touch and trust go together because that promotes survival.
Emotional Eating
This comic book on recovering from emotional eating is beautifully illustrated. You will learn to wire in new responses to stress.
Watch Strictly, eat sauerkraut, win at Monopoly:
expert tips for hacking your happy hormones
Loretta Breuning grew up around a lot of unhappiness, but couldn’t figure out why. To try to find out, she avidly read up on psychology, alongside raising two children and working as a professor in management at California State University. “I thought that, if I followed the research, it would make everybody happy all the time,” she says.
You Asked: Is It Bad for You to Read the News Constantly?
More than half of Americans say the news causes them stress, and many report feeling anxiety, fatigue or sleep loss as a result, the survey shows. Yet one in 10 adults checks the news every hour, and fully 20% of Americans report “constantly” monitoring their social media feeds—which often exposes them to the latest news headlines, whether they like it or not.
5 Happiness Hacks That Take 5 Minutes Or Less
Loretta Graziano Breuning, founder of Inner Mammal Institute and author of “Habits of a Happy Brain,” believes that humans can essentially rewire their brains. How so? By understanding that we have certain “happy chemicals” that were inherited from earlier mammals — and using that knowledge to develop habits that turn those chemicals on.
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CNET: Boost happy hormones naturally
Forbes: Why You Feel Undervalued And How To Dissolve The Feeling
Fast Company: Establish Healthy Stress Habits Before It’s Too Late
USA Today: What is dopamine fasting and why are people doing it?
NBC: This is your brain on prayer and meditation
Cornell U: The Roots of ‘Status Games’ & Why Your Brain Is Stuck in High School
Jl of Clinical Research: Stimulating DOSE
ALBERT ELLIS: Rewiring Your Brain
National Review: Stop Telling College Students That They’re Sick and Broken
Psychologies: Boost your natural ‘feel-good’ chemicals
Quartz: Gazelles look at each others’ butts to keep the status quo—and we do the same
Fast Company: Stop forcing your mindfulness on me
INC: Tired of Being a Negative Person? Try This Daily 3-Minute Ritual
How to achieve eudaimonia and other lessons from The Stoics
BBC: “Cuarteto de la felicidad”: endorfina, serotonina, dopamina y oxitocina
Bustle: 7 Signs Your Body Is Expressing Anxiety Physically
The Toy That Helps You Problem Solve at Work
Psychology Today: This Is the Face of Dopamine
Forbes: How To Rewire Your Panic Button And Go From Negative To Positive
Bustle: 7 Things That Should Never Stop You From Going After What You Want
Bustle: 9 Signs Your Serotonin Levels Are Too Low
Psychology Today: Compassion: A New Paradigm
Bustle: How To Create The Life You Want
Bustle: 6 Ways To Be More Self-Sufficient
Psychology Today: Your Inner Monkey: Learning From Your Way-Way-Back Past
Observer: SuperShe Island, Where Men Are Banned and Flowers Are Dinner
Conscious Lifestyle: 13 Way to Hack Happiness
Desesret News: How to cheat-proof your marriage, according to science
Why We Should Free Ourselves From Victim Thinking
Psychology: Химия счастья: как заставить гормоны работать
Hitched: 4 Reasons Why Love is a Neurochemical Roller Coaster
Relationship Development: Why Goals Don’t Bring Satisfaction
Year’s Best Self Improvement Books
Professor House: Help Your Child Build Healthy Reward Pathways
Good Habits Make You Feel Like You’re Gonna Die
Ladies Coach: THE SECRET “OFF” SWITCH TO STOP ANXIETY
Small Business: Status and Happiness
Thrive Global: 5 Natural Ways to Tame Anxiety
Evie Magazine: Blaming Others Feels Good But What’s It Doing To Mental Health?
Wiki Ezvid: 5 Helpful Resources For Improving Happiness
Forbes: How To Become A Little Happier In Difficult Times
Young Up-Starts: 7 Habits Of A Happy Brain
Yahoo: Falling In Love = Quality Time
Forge: Embrace the Lawlessness of Quarantine Eating
Why We Crave Power: The Science Behind Our Brain’s Animalistic Urge
Zolo: How to Declutter Your Home in 5 Steps
Relationship Development: FOOD AND ANXIETY
Center for Academic Renewal: Cheaters Never Prosper—Or Do They?
Outside: How to Cope with the Post-Marathon Blues
Medium: How to Live w Joie De Vivre
Cheating in the Classroom: We have a choice
Thrive: Dopamine = Embrace a new goal
Let’s Rethink the Mental Health “Crisis”
Boost Productivity by Understanding Your Natural Impulses
РБК: Как приучить мозг вырабатывать гормоны счастья