Offers simple activities that help you understand the roles of your "happy chemicals"--serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, and endorphins. You'll also learn how to build new habits by rerouting the electricity in your brain to flow down a new pathway, making it even easier to trigger these happy chemicals and increase feelings of satisfaction when you need them most.
Understand and improve your brain functions, become a happier person tomorrow! Your brain is the most complex organ in your body, and arguably the most important. Can you afford to have a brain that is not performing to the best of its ability in this modern age of information? Did you know that there are a lot of chemicals being produced in our brains that directly influence the way we feel and how we experience emotions? What if you knew ways to increase various neurotransmitters responsible forfeeling happier, more at ease, more content, more motivated, and more aroused Don't you think you would feel better on a day to day basis if you actively knew how to influence your natural balance? The book explains what neurotransmitters are, what they do, how to recognize a shortage and how to increase their natural balance in our brains for a happier life We explain you in an understandable way what you can do to improve your overall brain functioning and your emotional stateYour benefits from reading this book and following the suggestions are Feeling better on a day-to-day basis Feeling relieved of stress An improved state of well-being Increased focus and motivation More in touch with your surroundings Increased feelings of affection Decreased negative feelings such as depression and worry Feeling more content with what you do Improve your overall brain functioning And much more The majority of people go on with their day-to-day lifestyle and feel helpless towards their feelingsIn this book, we take look at the components that directly influence the way we feel and actRemember that if you keep doing what you always have been doing you will get the same results as you have gotten beforeGetting informed on your most valuable instrument, the brain, is always a very healthy and conscious thing to consider
Two titles in one audiobook! Audiobook one: Brain Power: The Best Ways to Improve the Flow of Neurotransmitters Allow your mind to function better and become a happier human being. Did you realize that a lot of emotions we experience are influenced by levels of oxytocin, serotonin, dopamine, and endorphins? We are greatly affected by the juices that flow through our physical bodies, and we are hardly aware of it. If you could get more of those “happiness hormones”, it certainly would improve your temper and solidify the health of your brain, wouldn’t it? Then don’t wait, and get this audiobook now so you can experience more joy in life by: Creating more happiness hormones. Relieving stress. Releasing more cuddly feelings. Increasing your energy. Improving your mood. Decreasing your chances of depression. Having more rewarding feelings in what you do. Connecting to other people more intimately. Audiobook two: Brain Boost: Powerful Memory Games and Exercises Perhaps you are wondering how to solve a crossword puzzle, decode cryptograms, and expand your already gigantic vocabulary. Although this brief guide won’t go deeply into any specifics, you’ll learn the basics of some of these games, the benefits, and come to understand several combinations. You will learn, among others, about: How you can learn more from each brain game. Creating your own brain games and how to use what’s there, like all that unused space. How desk toys and children’s toys can be used to stimulate brain activity. Busters, puzzles, mind-boggling reasoning structures you should apply, and tactics to solve them faster. How to utilize both the left and right side of your brain for clever thinking. Quick ways to win in memory games, jigsaw puzzles, and cryptograms. With the best tools, the right brain games, and the most positive mind-set, you can get very far when it comes to enhancing your mind’s ability to remember things, solve problems, and grow your intelligence levels.
The "happy chemicals" are controlled by tiny brain structures that all mammals have in common. Your brain rewards you with good feelings when you do something good for your survival. But we struggle to make sense of our neurochemical ups and downs, and can trigger vicious cycles such as alcohol, junk food, risk-taking. Learn how to make real-world choices that will help you break the cycles.
Allow your mind to function better and become a happier human being. Did you realize that a lot of emotions we experience are influenced by levels of oxytocin, serotonin, dopamine, and endorphins? We are so greatly affected by the juices that flow through our physical bodies and we are hardly aware of it. If you could get more of those “happiness hormones,” it certainly would improve your temper and solidify the health of your brain, wouldn’t it? Then don’t wait and get this book so you can experience more joy in life by: Creating more happiness hormones. Relieving stress. Releasing more cuddly feelings. Increasing your energy. Improving your mood. Decreasing your chances of a depression. Having more rewarding feelings in what you do. Connecting to other people more intimately.
New York Times bestselling author Dr. Daniel Amen equips you with powerful weapons to battle the inner dragons that are breathing fire on your brain, driving unhealthy behaviors, and robbing you of joy and contentment. Your brain is always listening and responding to these hidden influences and unless you recognize and deal with them, they can steal your happiness, spoil your relationships, and sabotage your health. This book will teach you to tame the: Dragons from the Past that ignite your most painful emotions; Negative Thought Dragons that attack you, fueling anxiety and depression; They and Them Dragons, people in your life whose own dragons do battle with yours; Bad Habit Dragons that increase the chances you’ll be overweight, overwhelmed, and an underachiever; Addicted Dragons that make you lose control of your health, wealth, and relationships; and Scheming Dragons, advertisers and social media sites that steal your attention. Dr. Daniel Amen shows you how to recognize harmful dragons and gives you the weapons to vanquish them. With these practical tools, you can stop feeling sad, mad, nervous, or out of control and start being happier, calmer, and more in control of your own destiny.
Presents a series of activities which can be implemented to increase personal happiness, including such strategies as fostering positive thinking, improving nutrition, getting enough sleep, learning a new skill, and incorporating relaxation exercises.
Do you want to be more positive and have a happier attitude toward life? This book gives you the solution. It contains advice on how to change your attitude and find more meaning and purpose in life. For example, it will help you with secret techniques on: Complaining less Having a brighter attitude Changing your life for the better Letting go of control Dealing with problems more effectively Training your brain Finding more joy in life Making people like you more And there's lots more! Listen to discover how to improve your perspective and have positive attitude toward all circumstances in life.
Anxiety is natural. Calm is learned. If you didn’t learn yesterday, you can learn today. It’s not easy, of course. Once your natural alarm system is triggered, it’s hard to find the off switch. Indeed, you don’t have an off switch until you build one. Tame Your Anxiety shows you how. Readers learn about the brain chemicals that make us feel threatened and the chemicals that make us feel safe. You’ll see how your brain turns on these chemicals with neural pathways built from past experience, and, most important, you discover your power to build new pathways, to enjoy more happy chemicals, and reduce threat chemicals. This book does not tell you to imagine yourself on a tropical beach. That’s the last thing you want when you feel like a lion is chasing you. Instead, you will learn to ask your inner mammal what it wants and how you can get it. Each time you step toward meeting a survival need, you build the neural pathways that expect your needs to be met. You don’t have to wait for a perfect world to feel good. You can feel good right now. The exercises in this book help you build a self-soothing circuit in steps so small that anyone can do it. Once you learn how it’s done, and how it can help ease your anxiety, you will learn how to handle situations in which you feel threatened or anxious. Understanding the underlying mechanisms will help you stop them before they get ahead of you.
A Science News Favorite Science Book of 2018 “A sweeping, glorious story of hormones, threaded through with sex, suffering, neurology, biology, medicine, and self-discovery.” —Siddhartha Mukherjee Metabolism, behavior, sleep, mood swings, the immune system, fighting, fleeing, puberty, and sex: these are just a few of the things our bodies control with hormones. Armed with a healthy dose of wit and curiosity, medical journalist Randi Hutter Epstein reveals the “invigorating history” (Nature) of hormones and the age-old quest to control them through the back rooms, basements, and labs where endocrinology began.
