by breuning loretta | Jul 3, 2017 | brain chemicals
You can trigger more happy chemicals naturally. Here’s how. You can stimulate more happy chemicals with fewer side effects when you understand the job your happy chemicals evolved to do. Here’s a natural way to stimulate each, and to avoid unhappy...
by breuning loretta | Jun 23, 2014 | brain chemicals
Your teen self is still the core of who you are Does life sometimes seem like a high school cafeteria? It’s not your imagination. Our brain is designed to wire itself in adolescence. Our emotional brain is inherited from earlier mammals, who struggle for status...
by breuning loretta | Jun 23, 2014 | brain chemicals
Love makes your happy chemicals surge, but they always dip Love triggers dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin. That’s why it’s so motivating. But happy chemicals come in spurts. They do their job by turning off after they turn on. When your happy chemicals...
by breuning loretta | Jun 23, 2014 | brain chemicals
If you have a bad habit, it’s because your brain thinks it’s good for survival. If you eat a donut when you’re annoyed, for example, it’s because your brain has experienced the donut’s ability to transform a bad feeling into a good feeling. Bad feelings equal...
by breuning loretta | Sep 20, 2019 | brain chemicals
Your phone triggers dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin, while it relieves cortisol Our brain is not designed to release good feelings all the time for no reason. It evolved to promote survival. It releases the good feelings of dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin when...
by breuning loretta | Jul 10, 2017 | brain chemicals
Overcoming obstacles is the natural way to feel good. Our frustrations are often blamed on modern society, but monkeys had the same frustrations 50 million years ago. They could climb a high tree for a juicy mango only to have it snatched from them by a fellow monkey....
