293: Unlock Your Happy Brain Chemicals
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Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
"I just want to be happy..." is something you've probably said one thousand times. You want to be happy at work, at home, with your partner and friends—but what does that mean?
You've no-doubt felt "happy" while walking on the beach on a warm summer night at sunset, but if you're like me, you've also felt "happy" in a sweaty, controlled mess on your yoga mat—so what's going on?
Happiness is something we're all seeking and yet almost no one can define. No wonder we struggle to achieve it. On this week's Yoga Talk Show, you'll learn about the four chemicals responsible for happiness, and more importantly, how to cultivate them.
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Listen & Learn:
- Why social status & pride are important for serotonin
- Why the stress hormone cortisol can kill your chances of happiness
- How early life patterns can influence (but not predict) your habits today
- Why people get addicted to "runner's high"
- How to choose healthy ways to trigger happy brain chemicals
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Loretta Graziano Breuning, PhD, is the founder of the Inner Mammal Institute. She's Professor Ammer-ita at California State University, East Bay, and author of I-Mammal, Habits of a Happy Brain, and The Science of Positivity.
Nutritional Tip of the Week:
- Healthy Oils
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| 0:00.0 | This week's Yoga Talk Show is brought to you by Fresh Books. |
| 0:03.0 | When I first started working for myself in my early 20s, |
| 0:06.3 | bookkeeping and invoices were two of my biggest struggles. |
| 0:10.0 | I knew that it was important, but it was such a a hassle and there just weren't many good solutions. |
| 0:15.0 | Today invoicing and bookkeeping is easier and simpler than ever and I always refer my yoga colleagues and other entrepreneurs to Fresh Books. this week's yoga talk show sponsor. |
| 0:25.0 | There's lots of accounting software programs out there, but the reason that I love Fresh Books and |
| 0:29.3 | many of my yoga colleagues love Fresh Books is because it's really easy to use and probably the biggest |
| 0:34.6 | feature we all love is the invoicing tool so you make an invoice send it to your |
| 0:38.2 | clients and fresh books will follow up you don't have to keep chasing your clients |
| 0:42.0 | fresh books will do it for you. |
| 0:43.2 | So if you're struggling with bookkeeping and invoicing now or if you're unhappy with your current |
| 0:48.0 | solution, Fresh Books is offering yoga talk show listeners a free 30 day trial. |
| 0:52.8 | Just go to Fresh Books.com forward slash yoga |
| 0:55.4 | and enter Yoga Podcast in the How Did You Hear About Us section. |
| 0:59.5 | Again, that's Fresh Books.com forward slash yoga and enter Yoga Podcast in the How Did You Hear About a Section. |
| 1:06.0 | I mean people all the time who states that their goal with work, with |
| 1:14.8 | yoga, with friendships, with their family is to find happiness, to feel |
| 1:19.9 | happiness, to be happy, I want to retire and be happy, I want to get a dream job and be happy, I want to retire and be happy I want to get a dream job and |
| 1:23.9 | be happy I want to get this degree then I will be happy we use this word |
| 1:27.8 | happiness all the time probably as frequently or even more frequently than the word |
| 1:32.4 | love and yet very few people can define frequently or even more frequently than the word love. |
| 1:33.0 | And yet very few people can define what it means to be happy, |
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