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Fox News: Be happier with these 7 healthy habits
2-Minute Animation: Your Happy Chemicals
Les hormones du bonheur (Hormones of happiness)
¿Cuáles son los hábitos de un cerebro feliz? (What are the habits of a happy brain?)
GGTN: How do we establish our sense of happiness?
Stress & Anxiety On Point Talk
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Action for Happiness: Happy Brain Habits – with Prof Loretta Breuning
International Coach Federation talk on Managing Stress
Reprogram Your Brain, Quit Smoking, & Make Peace with Your Inner Beast with Abel James
Family IQ: Happy Chemicals with Dr. Loretta Breuning
After Skool: Dopamine Fasting 2.0 – Overcome Addiction & Restore Motivation
UPEACE Centre for Executive Education: You Have Power Over Your Happy Brain Chemicals
Comedy Solo Performance of Loretta Breuning
Inner Mammal Institute: Your Ups and Downs Are Natural…& also learned PART 1
Social Comparison, on Boost Your Biology with Lucas Aoun
MindfulNEWS: Renaissance Podcast #49 Loretta Breuning: Exploring the chemicals in our brain
Books in Heinessight Podcast: Loretta Breuning Phd – Habits of a Happy Brain
Inner Mammal Institute: Tame Your Anxiety Introduction
Brooke Erickson: Spotlight Feature: Science Of Positivity (Loretta Breuning, PHD)
Inner Mammal Institute: Science of Positivity Growth Retreat
Inner Mammal Institute: Happy Chemicals and Relationships @BrainHub SF 2019
Daily Sales Tips: Managing Your Brain Chemicals, Motivation & Social Trust – Loretta Breuning
Sassy Townhouse Living: How To Tame Your Anxiety And Start Living Again
Français Authentique: Le bonheur est-il chimique ?
CheapRVliving: I Want MORE! How Dopamine Creates a Constant Craving for the New and Exciting Vlog #2
Barış Özcan: The Formula of Hapiness : D+O+S+E
Inner Mammal Institute: What Makes Humans Happy?
Catherine Carrigan: Loretta Breuning How to Balance Your Brain Chemistry Naturally
Gennady Polonsky: Loretta Breuning on teaching people to manage the brain chemicals
Denis Merkas: Can You Massage Away Sadness, Depression and Anxiety?
Radislav Gandapas: Happy Brain
RomanSergeevCom: The Best Books Summaries
Fit for Joy: Happy Brain — Happy Life!
Inner Mammal Institute: Gli ormoni della felicitài: dopamina, serotonina, ossitocina ed endorfina
Inner Mammal Institute: Doma la Tua Ansia
The Ladies Coach: “Comparison” continues to haunt the happiness of women everywhere.
Science of positivity_Denstists Tubules
Lisa Alastuey: #29 – Hacking Your Brain’s Happy Chemicals with Dr. Loretta Breuning
The Creative Way Around: In The Spotlight — Interview with Loretta Breuning, PhD
Mark Queppet: The Quest for Status: Interview with Dr. Loretta Breuning
YB Digital: Why Travel Makes Us Happy? With Loretta Breuning, PhD
Guest Podcasts
Hear Loretta Breuning’s own podcast at: HappyBrainPodcast.com
Ep. 61 Tame Your Anxious Brain, with Loretta Breuning Ph.D.
Loretta Breuning, Ph.D. is a Professor Emerita of management at California State University, and author of the science of positivity, habits of a happy brain, and tame your anxiety. “As a teacher and a mom, I was not convinced by prevailing theories of human motivation. Then I learned about the brain chemistry of animals, and everything made sense.
Ep. 126 – Breaking Bad Habits + The Science of Being Happy with Loretta Breuning
Almost 30 is all about tools, tricks, and insights that anyone can use to feel happier and more aligned as they navigate the big transitions in their life… but we’ve never really talked about WHY people feel happy. Like what’s going in these mammal brains of ours?
Ep. 68 – Loretta Graziano Breuning: Meet Your Happy Chemicals
Ep.177 – Dr. Loretta Breuning
Elle Russ chats with Loretta Breuning, PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute, which helps people manage the brain chemicals we’ve inherited from our earliest ancestors. She’s author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin and Endorphin Levels, and The Science of Positivity: Stop Negative Thought Patterns By Changing Your Brain Chemistry.
LA NEUROCHIMIE
Productiv’ You !
Your Brain Chemicals with Loretta Breuning
Loretta Breuning: Study of the brain chemicals in animals and finding correlations in order to help us understand our brains more. Life is complicated, Loretta found that many children struggled in school in a similar way, mainly a lack of motivation. A motivation to do things that aren’t necessarily fun.
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Can we stop comparing ourselves to others?
Eldon Taylor: HABITS OF A HAPPY BRAIN
Health Matters – The Science of Positivity
James Altucher: HACK YOUR BRAIN & BECOME HAPPIER
Foundations Recovery Network: Conquering Your Inner Mammal
Roger Dooley: Leverage Brain Chemistry
Fat Burning Man: Reprogram Your Brain, Quit Smoking & Make Peace with Your Inner Beast
Biohacking with Melanie Avalon
Fat Burning Man: Break Bad Habits with Brain Science
Yoga Body: The Lucas Rockwood Show
HOW I ESCAPED POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND YOU CAN TOO
Inspire Nation: The Science Of Positivity”
Yoga Body #2: Unlock Your Happy Brain Chemicals
Prosperity Place #2: How to Activate Your Happy Brain Chemicals
VroomVroomVeer: Making Peace with the Animal Inside
Status Games: Why we Play and How to Stop
The Happy Chemicals: Hard-Wired to Survive, Self-Denial, Choice, & Free Will
Dr Walter Sims: Creating a New Positive Circle
Stop Negative Habits & Steer your way to Health
Ben Pakulski: Overcoming Our Mammal Brain
Rewiring Your Brain for Happiness
Douglas Vigliotti: On Taming Your Anxiety
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: Focusing on the Power of Your own Steps
Distilled Man: How to Tame Anxiety
Michelle McQuaid: Do You Need to Tame Your Anxiety?
Michelle McQuaid: Can You Turn On Your Happy Chemicals?
Divine Insight: Habits of a Healthy Brain
Happy Healthy Hormones with Dr. Chris
Real Things Living: Rewriting the Story
Dr. Barter – Brain Chemistry, Mood, & Emotions
Untangle: Retrain Your Brain to Boost the Happy Chemical
My Brain First: The Neuroscience of Happiness
Camden Boyd’s The Happiness Question
Happy Hour: The Other Side of Depression
Fit for Joy: Understanding Anxiety
Serotonin, Status Games …and how to stop playing them
Arash’s World Podcast: Life in the Middle Lane
Gut Health Reset: Things You Didn’t Know About Neurochemistry and Social Comparison!
Awakening Aphrodite: Creating Healthy Habits
World Happiness Fest: 3 Obstacles to Happiness (and how to relieve them)
The Lifestyle First: How can I create happy habits?
The Alcohol Minimalist Podcast
Radio
Succeed in the Online Dating World
Some say the dating world isn’t always easy, but for years online dating websites have tried making it a more pleasurable experience—with hit or miss success.
Why Do We Love Flowers So Much?
From a funeral, to a celebration, or a romantic occasion, we use flowers for several different moments to show love and affection…
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.
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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Psychology Today: Compassion Failure: A New Paradigm
USA Today: What is dopamine fasting and why are people doing it?
NBC: This is your brain on prayer and meditation
Cornell University: The Roots of ‘Status Games’—and Why Your Brain Is Stuck in High School
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
PBS Rewire: How to Establish a Healthy Media Diet
Forbes: Why You Feel Undervalued And How To Dissolve The Feeling
Wiki Ezvid: 5 Helpful Resources For Improving Happiness
Forbes: How To Become A Little Happier In Difficult Times
Fast Company: Here’s How To Establish Healthy Stress Habits Before It’s Too Late
Inc.: Tired of Being a Negative Person? Try This Daily 3-Minute Ritual
Bustle: 7 Signs Your Body Is Expressing Anxiety Physically
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 In Your Career
Bustle: 9 Signs Your Serotonin Levels Are Too Low
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: Welcome to SuperShe Island, Where Men Are Banned and Flowers Are Dinner
Conscious Lifestyle: Hacking Happiness: 13 Science Backed Ways to Feel Good Virtually All The Time
Desesret News: How to cheat-proof your marriage, according to science
Albert Ellis: NEW YEAR, NEW HABITS: REWIRING YOUR BRAIN
Psychology: Химия счастья: как заставить гормоны работать
РБК: Как приучить мозг вырабатывать гормоны счастья
Hitched: 4 Reasons Why Love is a Neurochemical Roller Coaster
Relationship Development: WHY GOALS DON’T BRING SATISFACTION
Relationship Development: GOOD HABITS MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE YOU’RE GONNA DIE
Choosing Therapy: 15 Best Self Improvement Books
Professor House: Help Your Child Build Healthy Reward Pathways
the Ladies Coach: THE SECRET “OFF” SWITCH TO STOP YOUR ANXIETY NOW
Small Business: Status and Happiness: Review of “I, Mammal”
Thrive Global: 5 Natural Ways to Tame Anxiety
Evie Magazine: Why We Should Free Ourselves From Victim Thinking
Psychology Today: This Is the Face of Dopamine
Evie Magazine: Blaming Others Feels Deceptively Good But What Is It Doing To Our Mental Health?
Fit x Brit: 3 Steps to Relieve Anxiety Naturally
Brit: This Surprising Toy Can Help You Problem Solve at Work
Young up Starts: 7 Habits Of A Happy Brain
The Star: How to achieve eudaimonia and other lessons from The Stoics
Mabel and Moxie: Expert Insight Every Parent Should Read On Taming Anxiety
Yahoo: The Secret To Falling In Love Is Quality Time—Plain And Simple
Forge: Embrace the Lawlessness of Quarantine Eating
Zolo: How to Declutter Your Home in 5 Steps
Relationship Development: FOOD AND ANXIETY
CNet: How to boost happiness hormones like serotonin and dopamine
Shepherd: The best books on the animal mind
The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal: Cheaters Never Prosper—Or Do They?
Nonpartisan Education Blog: Cheating in the Classroom: We all have a choice
Outside: How to Cope with the Post-Marathon Blues
Thrive: Dr. Loretta G Breuning Of the Inner Mammal Institute: “Dopamine (Embrace a new goal)”
Let’s Rethink the Mental Health “Crisis”