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Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, & Endorphin Levels Paperback – December 16, 2015
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Get ready to boost your happiness in just 45 days! Habits of a Happy Brain shows you how to retrain your brain to turn on the chemicals that make you happy. Each page offers simple activities that help you understand the roles of your “happy chemicals”—serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, and endorphin. 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. Filled with dozens of exercises that will help you reprogram your brain, Habits of a Happy Brain shows you how to live a happier, healthier life!
- Print length238 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateDecember 16, 2015
- Dimensions5.5 x 0.6 x 8.44 inches
- ISBN-101440590508
- ISBN-13978-1440590504
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- Publisher : Adams Media; 1st edition (December 16, 2015)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 238 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1440590508
- ISBN-13 : 978-1440590504
- Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.44 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #46,367 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #151 in Emotional Mental Health
- #239 in Emotional Self Help
- #793 in Happiness Self-Help
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Loretta Graziano Breuning, PhD is Founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and Professor Emerita of Management at California State University, East Bay. She's the author of many books on happiness, including: Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.
As a teacher and mom, Loretta was not convinced by prevailing theories of human motivation. Then she learned about the brain chemistry we share with earlier mammals, and everything made sense. So she began creating resources to help people manage their inner mammal. Her work has helped thousands of people rewire themselves for more happy chemicals.
Dr Breuning's work has been featured in major media and translated into many languages. She speaks publicly on many webinars, podcasts, and conferences. Details on her website: innermammalinstitute.org
Before teaching, Loretta worked in Africa for the United Nations. She offers zoo tours on animal behavior after volunteering as a Docent at the Oakland Zoo. She holds a BS from Cornell University and a PhD from Tufts University. In her free time, she travels to historic places and studies foreign languages.
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One note. The author kinda shows a side of herself at the end that, even she admits, goes against the grain. She had calculated the risk of not being part of the herd and has probably found some small group of people that feel the same way she does to stimulate her own totally human serotonin. But for people who care about political and social movements, maybe skip the last chapter. There’s kind of this idea presented that each individual is in charge of their own happiness (I agree) and that the world today is not broken at all (hmm ok) and that we indoctrinate people into believing the system is rigged (??). Going so far as to put the word privileged in quotes (yikes). The book absolutely ignores learned helplessness, abuse, oppression, and all the ways our mammal brain hurts people. It’s a fend for yourself world in this book. That’s fine. Personally I feel like there can be balance. You can acknowledge that you won the genetic lottery and that it doesn’t make you happier. Just that it gives you more access to resources that will. She states that in today’s world, there’s no use for cortisol to alert you to existential dangers like death, pain, and starvation so we focus that cortisol on social dangers like rejection, betrayal, and shame. Completely ignoring that for a LOT of people on this planet, that’s not the reality. Even going so far as to put a little shame on some people for prioritizing the happiness of many over their own. I’m aware as I type this that I’m getting a little serotonin bump from feeling like I’m making the better herd choice. So human. But yeah. That part made me bristle but not enough to ruin the book.
Experts in psychology and motivation may have a different view. But, I know if I explain things in my area of expertise with all details and nuance a non-expert would be lost or bored before finishing. This author chunked the knowledge and delivered it in just the right detail for me to finally understand my internal struggle for balance.
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Content is well organized, simply explained and easily relatable. Within a short while, it becomes clear which one is predominant (in excess or in lack thereof) in ourself. Ways to improve are given, but it's not exhaustive. Also just relying on these 4 chemical-behaviors for happiness doesn't work.
In this book I would have loved to see some more such as Leptin, Ghrelin which control satiety and contentment.
Overall a wonderful read and so much to learn from these 4 chems.