{"id":100355,"date":"2020-01-01T08:45:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T16:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/how-to-train-your-brain-to-release-more-happy-chemicals"},"modified":"2020-01-01T08:45:28","modified_gmt":"2020-01-01T16:45:28","slug":"how-to-train-your-brain-to-release-more-happy-chemicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/how-to-train-your-brain-to-release-more-happy-chemicals","title":{"rendered":"How to train your brain to release more happy chemicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-to-train-your-brain-to-release-more-happy-chemicals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you ever wish you could just turn on the happy chemicals in your brain? Imagine how much easier it would make getting out of bed each morning, getting even the most tedious parts of your job done, and finding the energy to consistently show up as your best self for the people you care about the most. But is it really possible \u2013 never mind advisable \u2013 to try and train our brains for more happiness?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe quest for good feelings is nature\u2019s survival engine,\u201d explained Professor Loretta Breuning, founder of the <a href=\"https:\/\/innermammalinstitute.org\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Inner Mammal Institute<\/a>, when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michellemcquaid.com\/podcast\/can-you-turn-on-your-happy-chemicals-podcast-with-loretta-breuning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">I interviewed her recently<\/a>. \u201cFor example, animals seek food to relieve the bad feeling of hunger. They seek warmth to relieve the bad feeling of cold. And happy chemicals start flowing before a mammal even eats or warms up because the brain turns them on as soon as it sees a way to meet a need.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever wish you could just turn on the happy chemicals in your brain? Imagine how much easier it would make getting out of bed each morning, getting even the most tedious parts of your job done, and finding the energy to consistently show up as your best self for the people you care [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}