Your mind literally acts as a "happy chemical" manufacturing facility.
Here are the 4 chemicals it manufactures:
Dopamine (The Reward Chemical):
Enables motivation, learning, and pleasure.
Gives you determination to accomplish goals, desires and needs.
Oxytocin (The Love Hormone):
Creates feeling of trust, motivates you to build and sustain relationships.
Plays a role in bonding.
Serotonin (The Mood Stabilizer):
Causes you to feel significant or important among peers.
Causes you to accept yourself with the people around you.
Endorphine (The Pain Killer):
Releases a brief euphoria to mask physical pain.
Creates a response to pain and stress that alleviates anxiety and depression.
In order for your mind to manufacture these chemicals it needs you to provide it "raw goods" by doing the following things:
Dopamine is made when you:
Meditate
Check off a daily to-do list
Set long term goals
Eat food rich in L-Tyrosine
Exercise regularly
Create something: Writing / music / art
Oxytocin is made when you:
Experience physical touch
Socialize
Get a massage
Get Acupuncture
Listen to music
Exercise
Take a cold shower
Meditate
Serotonin is made when you:
Exercise
Take a cold shower
Get exposed to sunlight
Get a massage
Endorphine is made when you:
Laugh or Cry
Create music / art
Eat dark chocolate
Eat spicy foods
Exercise / stretch
Get a massage
Meditate
Should you not feed the mind the "raw goods" it needs, it will not manufacture the chemicals which will results in deficiencies. Here is a detailed breakdown How deficiency of each chemical effects you (when not doing the outlined items above):
Dopamine deficiency causes:
Procrastination
Low self-esteem
Lack of motivation
Low energy or fatigue
Inability to focus
Feeling anxious
Feeling hopeless
Mood swings
Oxytocin deficiency causes:
Feeling lonely
Stressed
Lack of motivation
Low energy or fatigue
Disconnect of relationships
Feeling anxious
insomnia
Serotonin deficiency causes:
Low self esteem
Feeling overly sensitive
Anxiety/panic attacks
Mood swings
Feeling hopeless
Social phobia
Obsession/compulsion
Insomnia
Endorphine deficiency causes:
Anxiety
Depression
Mood swings
Aches and pains
Insomnia
Impulsive behavior
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Blog sources:
https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/trigger-happy-chemicals
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/keep-it-in-mind/201301/give-feel-good
https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/serotonin-the-natural-mood-booster
https://www.cbhs.com.au/mind-and-body/blog/understanding-the-chemicals-controlling-your-mood
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