HAPPINESS IS IN OUR HORMONES

Success is not the key to Happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be happy.So make your passion your profession as success loves the company of a prepared and a happy mind. Does our happiness depend on our wisdom all together? My answer is, Yes. Various hormones [Neurotransmitters or Neurochemicals], in our body, hold the key to happiness to a great extent. I am sure our knowledge about the neurochemicals, inside our body, linked to happiness is pretty limited. A neurotransmitter is a chemical that is released from a nerve cell which thereby transmits an impulse to another nerve cell contained in a muscle or organ. A neurotransmitter is a messenger of neurologic information from one cell to another. People can be unhappy or feel distressed, experience episodes of anxiety anddepression in patches. Continue reading, to find out how you can help yourself on a way towards happiness. Only you have the cure for your unhappiness and your doctor can help, show the path.\n\nLet us discuss our Happy Hormones/Chemicals: \n\nThere are four neurochemicals in our brain responsible for feelings of happiness. Each one exists, ultimately, for biological reasons that have historically enabled us to survive.Experts say we can control their flow simply by knowing which behaviours trigger their release in the brain.\n\n1 Dopamine\n\nDopamine is a neurotransmitter released by the brain that plays a number of roles in humans and other animals. Some of its notable functions are balancing mood, sleep movement, memory, attention, learning, behavior and cognition. Dopamine helps control the brain’s reward and pleasure centers. We feel pleasure at this level when we have a hard drink or eat a sweet dish. It’s this neurotransmitter that alerts us to our needs, and then gives us pleasure when we’re able to meet them. By nature, when dopamine is released in our brain, we start craving for that particular food/event. These “needs” are defined by our biology, upbringing and environment. As dopamine is what causes us to strive and achieve, if it’slevel is low, thennegative behaviour starts developing i.e procrastination, self-doubt and apathy.\n\nBottomline: Spending just 10 minutes per day working toward a big, overwhelming goal, will boost dopamine levels in a sustainable way and motivate you to achieve what might have otherwise seemed unachievable. Break your goals into small steps and then achieve them to boost the dopamine levels. One does not need too much to release dopamine and in fact, relying on reaching high-level goals will leave you with a pattern of emotional highs and lows. If a Radio Jockey has done well on his 30 min program on Air, it may be more than enough to boost the dopamine to a required level. The only condition is the RJ has to have a passion for doing this pious job. Make your passion, your profession and you will feel pleasurably happy at a dopamine level because reward brings pleasure To boost dopamine :Eat. foods rich in tyrosine: almonds, avocados, bananas, low fat dairy, tofu, fish, poultry, red meat[once a meat, sesame, pumpkin seeds] Get plenty of sleep. One of the best ways to feel energized and ready to tackle the day is to get plenty of sleep. Dopamine has been tied to feelings of wakefulness, so in order to get that wakeful feeling, get 7 to 8 hour of sleep a night. But not less than 6 hrs in any case. If a seniors is not getting sleep lay in the bed in a sleeping mood towards partial benefit. Soboosting dopamine levels in a sustainable way motivate you to achieve what might have otherwise seemed unachievable.\n\n2 Serotonin\n\nNext up is serotonin.It is now well known for its role in the brain where it plays a major part in mood, anxiety and happiness. Illicit mood-altering drugs such as Ecstasy and LSD cause a massive rise in serotonin levels with deadly side effects.. Serotonin is mostly triggered by the dignity and respect you feel you’re receiving from others. If you don’t feel important, the result is anxiety/depressed mood.When people in your life-obviously you’ve had some influence- follow your example that triggers the flow of serotonin in us. If a Physician recommends a therapy ona Radio station and some listeners follow it, when the Physician happens to learn about that, it will trigger an extra dose of serotonin in the brain of that Physician and give pleasure to him.\n\nThis is the reason why people like praise and sycophants always have a scope to manipulate. Reminiscing [remembering good times in the past], also help in releasing more serotonin. This is the reason why fathers/grandfathers feel pleasure by telling their success stories of youth to next generation and repeat themtoo. Doing this regularly rewire your brain to trigger serotonin release. So focus on the positive and keep on doing a good job and gather as much praise as possible. You need it very badly. Let us consider the other side. If you’re feeling demoralized at work and you are in a supervisory position,then take a moment to consider the big picture for improvement. Respect should not be demanded, it should be commanded and commanded by encouraging peers, and others led by professionalism.. Those who are not happy at work can carry low levels of serotonin and experience good-for-bad-health anxiety. Anxiety, if untreated, leads to depression. Unfortunately, people at your work and around , hesitate to praise and in a tearing hurry to express jealousy, displeasure and what not.. Clumsy gestures or a tight face does more harm than words. A good atmosphere at work is a panacea for happiness.\n\nIn Canada, Depression is one of theleading diseases today. Low levels of Serotonin play a major part in mood, and happiness. It is thought that serotonin can affect mood and social behavior, appetite and digestion, sleep, memory and sexual desire etc. Bottomline All you need is positivity, regular exercise [works as an anti-depressant] and 20 minutes of daily sunshine [before 10.00am and after 3.00pm to avoid the effect of ultra violet rays].for skin to produce vitamin D3 [cholecalciferol]. Deficiency of vitamin D3 results in depression. In Canada , since sun is hardly out for 100 days a year, we need to resort to vitamin D3 [1,000 to 2,000 ]IU a day. Using D1 and D2 is a waste of money. Vitamin D3 is the only vitamin the body can manufacture from sunlight (UVB). Consumption of eggs, cheese[preferably cottage, low calorie],pineapples,tofu,salmon, nuts,seeds, turkey helps in improving serotonin levels.\n\n3 Oxytocin\n\nOxytocin is called a cuddle hormone also. Social Bonding, Trust and Intimacy helps maintain it. You can get it through something as simple as a hug, and you can give it through something as simple as a small gift. That is why we give small gifts to persons in our close circle on auspicious days. Please turn Page Honouring a commitment, big or small, can trigger oxytocin. Do not flake on plans. They leave a bad\n\n \n