Meet Your Happy Chemicals
By Loretta Graziano
Dopamine, Endorphin, Oxytocin, Serotonin. Createspace, 2012.
Summary of Meet Your Happy Chemicals book by Loretta Graziano
An informative guide to learn how certain chemicals in your brain influence your behavior, and how to rewire and train your brain using those happy chemicals.
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What do you get from this book? Understanding your brain’s happy chemicals and practical ways to use them for good
Your brain receives “happy chemicals” when you do something good for your survival
Happy chemicals come in spurts and bursts because our body wants us to keep chasing whatever is good for us
Cortisol is one of your body’s unhappy chemicals, and is released when you face a threat you need to resolve
Chasing your happy chemicals leaves you in a cycle of disappointment and negative behaviors
Your brain learns positive behaviors from experience and forms powerful neural pathways to repeat those experiences
Your high-level thinking brain can make conscious choices that supersede your primitive brain’s reaction to happy chemicals
Repetition and emotion can trigger your brain to forge new positive pathways in as few as 45 days
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- Sociologists
- anyone interested in psychology
- people looking to break habits
- behavioral scientists
About the author of Meet Your Happy Chemicals
Loretta Graziano
Loretta Graziano Breuning, Ph.D. serves as the Professor Emerita of Management at California State University. She founded the Inner Mammal Institute to help people understand their brains, and she writes the “Your Neurochemical Self” blog on Psychology Today.com. Breuning has also published several books including The Science of Positivity and I, Mammal.
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