Books on dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin and endorphin happiness

Habits of a Happy Brain

Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin

Your happy chemicals are inherited from earlier mammals. When you know how they work in the state of nature, you can design sustainable ways to turn them on today. Here's a plan to do it in 45 days, with step-by-step exercises! You can free yourself of unwanted habits and find healthy ways to enjoy dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin and endorphin.

The Science of Positivity

Stop negative thought patterns by changing your brain chemistry

Negativity is natural because our brain evolved to scan for threats. Past frustrations wired your brain to find new frustrations. You can rewire yourself to find positives to balance this natural negativity. You can do it in 6 weeks with just 3 minutes a day, no matter where you are in life. You will train your brain to find the good as skillfully as it now finds the bad.

Tame Your Anxiety

Rewiring Your Brain for
Happiness

Anxiety is natural. Calm is learned. If you didn’t learn yesterday, you can learn today. Animals stay calm in a world of potential threats because they focus on their next step. Humans have a big cortex designed to anticipate threats. It terrifies your inner mammal. Instead, you can focus your big cortex on the joy of your next step. Here's how.

I, Mammal

How to make peace with
the animal urge for social power

High-status animals get better mating opportunity & foraging spots. We have inherited a brain that rewards you with the good feeling of serotonin when you get respect. But the serotonin is soon metabolized so your brain is always looking for ways to get more. You can avoid "junk status" & enjoy more serotonin when you understand your inner mammal.

Anxiety

What turns it on. What turns it off.

You can replace the siren blast of cortisol with serotonin, dopamine, and oxytocin. Here’s how to build a new safety circuit to divert your electricity in a moment of anxiety. Nothing is wrong with you! Your brain is doing the job it evolved for: promoting your survival. It defines survival in a quirky way, alas, but you have the power to rewire it.

How I Escaped PC, And You Can Too

You care about the greater good, but you want to define it for yourself. Yet you fear ridicule, shunning and attack if you disagree with the politically correct view. So you find a way to conform, until one day you can’t. I was PC the day I heard myself lie about a simple fact because the truth didn’t sound progressive. I froze, and then.....

Grease-less

How to Thrive without Bribes in Developing Countries

Bribery is not a harmless tradition. It undermines a country’s economy and puts all participants at risk. Smart business managers and international travelers know how to respect the culture while remaining on the safe side of the law. Here’s how to make integrity work for you.

Meet Your Happy Chemicals

Dopamine, Serotonin, Oxytocin, Endorphin

This book has been replaced by Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.

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