How to Stimulate the Hormones That Make You Happy

Quick ways for stimulating hormones and neurotransmitters that contribute to your happiness

Giorgos Myrianthous
Curious

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Photo by bruce mars on Unsplash

There are mornings that I wake up particularly low and in a very bad mood and one of the biggest mistakes I used to do was start battling with unpleasant emotions. This is simply going to make them worse and even stronger. When you are not able to accept an emotion and initiate a battle against it, you automatically place your attention to that specific emotion. In other words, you are consuming most of your energy to fight a battle you’ve already lost.

Where you place your attention is where you place your energy — Dr Joe Dispenza

The first thing you need to do is simply accept the emotion even if it is unpleasant. I found out that acceptance is a practise that you can master during meditation. If you can sit down and just be with your emotions without being judgemental or fearful about them, then your equanimity muscle will become stronger and stronger. And guess what..No more fights with our emotions, no more fights with ourselves.

Therefore, if you are looking how to make fear, anxiety, shame or any other unpleasant emotion leave all you need to do is to accept it. An emotion…

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Giorgos Myrianthous
Curious

I strive to build data-intensive systems that are not only functional, but also scalable, cost effective and maintainable over the long term.