The 4 Brain Chemicals That Will Unlock Your Happiness Everyday

Activate Your Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, Endorphin (D.O.S.E.)

Ben Mumme
Change Becomes You

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Happiness depends on many things. Your state changes depending on how you react to changes in your career, marriage, personal life, and finances.

Happiness can also be due in part to giving back to the people and community around you, adopting a growth mindset during challenging times, and making progress in life.

According to the United Nations World Happiness Report 2021, Finland was the happiest nation in the world.

We are often more in control of our happiness than we may think — we can figure out what causes happiness, then cultivate it through a set of strategies and behaviors that anyone can practice.

Did you know that the warmth you feel from a long hug is caused by an entirely different chemical sensation than the high you feel after a long run or bike ride?

So then, what’s the real cause of our happiness? What makes us feel sensations of happiness, closeness, and joy?

Simple science tells us happiness can be found in four common brain chemicals that we can activate more and more in order to lead us towards consistently better days. Those chemicals are dopamine…

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