HEALTH FACTS : HOW YOU BUILD PATHWAYS IN YOUR BRAIN

HOW YOU BUILD PATHWAYS IN YOUR BRAIN

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Feb 10, 2017

Inner Mammal Institute

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This episode explains how neural pathways build from repeated experience. Your old pathways built from the experience of youth, when an abundance of myelin developed those pathways into superhighways. Today, you can feed your brain new experiences to develop new synapses, and get comfortable with these back roads instead of always sticking to the superhighways.

These 7 short videos show you how to build new neural pathways to turn on your happy brain chemicals in new and healthy ways. Anyone can do it by following these simple steps. You'll learn what turns on each happy chemicals in the state of nature, and why they're not on all the time. Then you'll learn why our unhappy chemicals turn on so easily. Finally, you'll learn three simple steps to wire in new self-soothing skills, so you can replace an old habit that you're better off without. Check out the pdf Action Guide to support your re-wiring project at: www.YouHavePowerOverYourBrain.com. And get lots more detail in my book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.

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The You Have Power Over Your Happy Brain Chemicals video series is a free service of the Inner Mammal Institute. Find more resources for making peace with your inner mammal at www.InnerMammalInstitute.org. Please like and share these valuable resources, and tell us how they worked for you!

It’s hard to accept the fact that our happy chemicals can’t surge all the time. Dopamine only  spurts when you approach a new reward. Oxytocin only spurts when you enjoy safety in numbers. Serotonin only spurts when you assert your social importance. You will not have peace if you rush to trigger more of these chemicals as soon as a spurt is over. You’ll have more peace in the long run if you get comfortable with the neutral feeling better.

Grateful thanks to Inner Mammal Institute and YouTube.