45. Creating Happy Brain Chemicals and Healthy Habits By Boosting Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin and Endorphin Levels with Loretta Graziano Breuning, PhD

Watch The Full Episode on YouTube Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLtF9MwAkTc&feature=youtu.be

Loretta G. Breuning, PhD, is the Founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and Professor Emerita of Management at California State University, East Bay. She is the author of many personal development books, including Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin and Endorphin Levels, The Science of Positivity and Anxiety: What Turns It On and Turns It Off.

Our happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward survival behavior. Don’t think others are getting happy chemicals all the time– they’re not!

Resources

Site InnerMammalInstitute.org.

Podcast: happybrainpodcast.com

Videos: YouHavePowerOverYourBrain.com

FB LorettaBreuningPhD

Tw @innermammal

YT https://www.youtube.com/innermammalinstitute Insta @inner.mammal.inst

LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorettabreuning/

*New book coming out in September:

Status Games: Why We Play and How to Stop https://www.amazon.com/dp/1538144190/

Podcast: https://www.mentalhealthnewsradionetwork.com/our-shows/the-happy-brain/

Timestamps:

00:00 Welcome To Awakening Aphrodite

00:27 Introduction

04:03 The Beginning of Loretta’s Journey

05:54 Leaving Academia

07:55 Researching Social Behavior in Mammals

13:09 Consciousness of Mortality in Animals

15:02 What Are Happy Chemicals?

21:04 Addiction To Social Media

23:47 Hormones vs. Neurotransmitters

28:57 What Are Endorphins

33:06 The Perception of The Happiness in Others

36:30 Confirmation Bias

39:27 The Formation of Myelinated Neurons

44:02 Rewiring Neural Pathways

49:04 Why Relationships Become Stagnant

51:14 The Unhappy Chemical

55:49 Social Comparison

57:27 Loretta’s Upcoming Projects