Loretta Graziano Breuning

Offers simple activities that help you understand the roles of your "happy chemicals"--serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, and endorphins. You'll also learn how to build new habits by rerouting the electricity in your brain to flow down a new pathway, making it even easier to trigger these happy chemicals and increase feelings of satisfaction when you need them most.

Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, & Endorphin Levels

Habits of a Happy Brain

Loretta Graziano Breuning, Ph.D.

Humans have emotional ups and downs because we've inherited the operating system of earlier mammals. You feel good when you find new rewards because that triggers dopamine. You feel good when you get respect because it triggers serotonin. Building trust triggers oxytocin, and endorphin makes you feel good when you're injured. The mammal brain releases happy chemicals when you do things that promote survival in the state of nature. You can get more happy chemicals from your brain when you understand the job it evolved to do.Happy chemicals were not meant to surge all the time. They evolved to reward you when you promote the survival of your genes. You define this in unique individuals ways because early experience builds the neural pathways that turn on the happy chemicals. But beneath your uniqueness you have a mammalian core that cares as much about your legacy as it does about your body.“I don't see happiness this way,” you may say. That's because neurochemicals work without words. They turn on and off without reporting the reason to your cortex. Your limbic system and your cortex are literally not on speaking terms. But in other people, you can easily see these mammalian motives. And research on animals reveals uncanny parallels. The same basic happy chemicals motivate animals to promote survival with the same basic behaviors. The mammalian operating system is simple. Happy chemicals tell you what to go toward, and unhappy chemicals tell you what to pull away from. Unhappiness is part of life because unhappy chemicals alert you to survival threats. Being left out of the group threatens survival in the state of nature. So does losing out on mating opportunities. When an animal smells a predator, the bad feeling of cortisol motivates it to stop grazing and run. Bad feelings exist because they promote survival. When you are passed over for a promotion, you know it's not a predator attack. But if feels that way because you've inherited the neurochemicals that have successfully promoted survival for millions of years.This book shows how to re-wire yourself for more happy chemicals. It explores the vicious cycle you might create when your happy chemicals dip. You don't like the unhappy chemicals that get your attention when a happy chemical surge is over. You may rush to stimulate more happy chemicals in ways that ultimately bring unhappiness. Such happy habits get repeated despite the consequences because electricity in your brain flows down the biggest channels. You can build new neural highways to support new happy habits. It's not easy to build re-build your neural infrastructure in adulthood. This book shows you how.

Dopamine, Endorphin, Oxytocin, Serotonin

Meet Your Happy Chemicals

Mutluluk Hormonlarinizi Yönetin

Mutlu Beyin

Mammals seek dominance because it stimulates their happy chemicals. An appetite for status develops as naturally as the appetite for food and sex. Status hierarchies emerge spontaneously as each individual strives to meet their needs and avoid harm. You would never think this way in words, but your mammal brain uses neurochemicals instead of words. When you understand the private lives of animals, your neurochemical ups and downs make sense. You have inherited the operating system that helped mammals thrive for millions of years. Nothing is wrong with us. We are mammals. You may say you're "against status." But if you filled a room with people who said they were anti-status, a hierarchy would soon form based on how anti-status they are. That's what mammals do. Our neurochemical ups and downs make sense when you look at the private lives of animals. The field notes of a primatologist are eerily similar to the lyrics of a country western song. A biology textbook resembles a soap opera script. The mammal brain cannot put its reactions into words, so the human cortex struggles to make sense of the limbic system it's attached to. We can finally make sense of our hybrid brain thanks to an accumulation of research in animal science and neuroscience. The frustrations of social hierarchies are not caused by "our society." We are simply heirs to the brain that helped mammals thrive for two hundred million years. It's not easy being human with a mammalian operating system. But when you understand the neurochemistry of mammals, you can stop focusing on our flaws and simply celebrate how well we do with the mental equipment we've got. Mammals live in groups for protection from predators, but group life can be frustrating. Some herd mates always seem to get the best mating opportunities and foraging spots. Fortunately, the mammal brain evolved to handle this. It releases stress chemicals when a mammal needs to hold back to avoid conflict. And it emits happy chemicals- serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphins, when a mammal sees a way to forge ahead and meet its needs.

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I, Mammal

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Hormonların hayatımızdaki yerinin farkında mıyız? Serotonin, dopamin, oksitosin ve endorfin hormonlarının her biri ne işe yarıyor? Bu mutluluk kimyasallarını doğal yöntemlerle nasıl salgılayabiliriz? Stres hormonu olarak bilinen kortizolü alt edebilir miyiz? Alışkanlıkları değiştirmek neden bu kadar zor? Beyninizin nasıl çalıştığını öğrenmeye hazır mısınız? California State Üniversitesi’nde öğretim görevlisi, Inner Mammal Enstitüsü’nün kurucusu Loretta Graziano Breuning, insan motivasyonu hakkındaki genel geçer kuramları reddediyor ve memeli beyni üstüne yaptığı çalışmalarıyla tanınıyor. İnsanların kendi hormonlarını tanıyarak ve içindeki memeliyi anlayarak mutluluğa ulaşabileceğine inanıyor. Mutluluk... Dört beyin kimyasalından geliyor ve Mutlu Beyin size “mucize çözümler” yerine kalıcı bir eylem planı sunuyor. Kendinizi tanımanızı sağlıyor ve 45 günde istediğiniz değişimi yaratmanızın yollarını gösteriyor. İngilizceden çeviren Ebrar Güldemler #AgantaKitap

Mutluluk Hormonlarınızı Yönetin: Serotonin, Dopamin, Oksitosin & Endorfin

Learning to calm anxiety is a difficult task after years of responding to your brain's warning signs for threats. But understanding the mechanisms that launch you into anxious states will help you train your brain to make new connections, new paths to awareness and calm. Tame Your Anxiety shows you how.

Rewiring Your Brain for Happiness

Tame Your Anxiety

Tú tienes poder sobre tus emociones, pero es limitado, por lo que debes entenderlo. Aquí hay una explicación simple de los químicos que nos hacen sentir bien: dopamina, serotonina, oxitocina y endorfina. Descubrirás qué los enciende en los animales y cómo los manejas con la parte animal de tu cerebro. Luego, aprenderás a reconfigurar tus sustancias químicas felices alimentando a tu cerebro con nuevas entradas. También haremos lo mismo con el cortisol, el químico infeliz. Es un método paso a paso sin jerga ni técnicismos, basado en el trabajo del Inner Mammal Institute. Una presentación más completa de la ciencia se encuentra en el libro complementario, Los Hábitos de un Cerebro Feliz. Con una lección al día durante catorce días, descubrirás tu poder sobre las sustancias químicas del cerebro. Esta no es una lista de verificación de tareas. Es una guía sobre la forma en que se conectó tu cerebro hace mucho tiempo y la forma de agregar un nuevo cableado. Los seres humanos nos conectamos con la experiencia temprana, por lo que todos necesitamos actualizaciones. Puedes aprender a abrir una nueva ruta a través de tu jungla de neuronas para alcanzar tus sustancias químicas felices de manera natural y saludable. Las expectativas realistas son la clave. Nuestros productos químicos felices no están diseñados para fluir todo el tiempo sin razón alguna. Evolucionaron para recompensarte por dar un paso que satisfaga tus necesidades. Nuestro cerebro define las "necesidades" de una manera peculiar, por infortunio. Aprenderás acerca de estas peculiaridades para que pueda diseñar pasos realistas hacia sus químicos felices. No puedes volver a cablear todo tu cerebro en 14 días. Solo puedes construir una nueva ruta neuronal a la vez. Aprenderás a apuntar a la nueva ruta que desea y los pasos que la construirán. Puedes reemplazar un hábito insostenible con un nuevo hábito diseñado por ti. ¡Estaras contento de haberlo logrado!

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Rewire your brain to avoid the trap of comparison and status-seeking to achieve more contentment and satisfaction from life People care about status despite their best intentions because our brains are inherited from animals who cared about status. The survival value of status in the state of nature helps us understand our intense emotions about status today. Beneath your verbal brain, you have the brain common to all mammals. It rewards you with pleasure hormones when you see yourself in a position of strength, and it alarms you with stress hormones when you see yourself in a position of weakness. But constant striving for status can be anxiety-provoking and joy-stealing. Nothing feels like enough to our mammal brain. It releases those stress chemicals when you think others are ahead of you. Here, Loretta Breuning shines a light on the brain processes that encourage us to seek higher status. She teaches us how to rewire those connections for more contentment and less stress. No more worrying about keeping up with the Joneses. Your new way of thinking will blaze new trails to your happy hormones and you will RELAX.

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