Your Happy Chemicals

Dopamine, Endorphin, Oxytocin, Serotonin

You can enjoy more happy chemicals if you know what turns them on. In the state of nature, happy chemicals turn on to meet survival needs. Whatever met your needs in youth triggered happy chemicals and paved your neural pathways. You are wired to seek more of whatever felt good before. You can re-wire yourself by repeating a new behaviour for 45 days.

Why doesn’t it feel good to start a new habit? Your old habits are like well-paved highways in your brain. New behaviours are hard to activate because they’re just narrow trails in your jungle of neurons. To learn more, visit: https://medium.com/.

Mrs Annie Williams, College Counsellor