Los hábitos de un cerebro feliz muestra cómo reciclar el cerebro para poner en marcha la química que genera felicidad. A través de unas sencillas actividades, la autora explica el papel de las sustancias que conforman la llamada "química de la felicidad", compuesta por serotonina, dopamina, oxitocina y endorfinas. Aprende a crear nuevos hábitos guiando la electricidad de tu cerebro para permitir que fluya hacia nuevas vías, lo que hará más fácil aún desencadenar la química de la felicidad e incrementar una agradable sensación de satisfacción cuando más lo necesites. La obra contiene numerosos ejercicios que te ayudarán a reprogramar tu cerebro y a disfrutar de una vida más dichosa y más sana. ¡Prepárate para estimular tu felicidad en sólo 45 días!
Loretta is the author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin and Endorphin Levels. She's Founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and Professor Emerita of Management at California State University, East Bay. Dr. Breuning's many books, videos and podcasts explain the brain chemistry we've inherited from earlier mammals. She shows that our "happy chemicals" are not designed to be on all the time. They evolved to do specific jobs, so we always have to do more to get more. Dr. Breuning's work explains the natural way to enhance our power over these chemicals. Her nine books have been translated into sixteen languages. Before teaching, Loretta worked for the United Nations in Africa. Today, she gives zoo tours on animals behavior, after serving as a Docent at the Oakland Zoo. She is a graduate of Cornell University and Tufts. The Inner Mammal Institute offers videos, podcasts, books, blogs, multimedia, a training program, and a free five-day happy-chemical jumpstart. Details are available at InnerMammalInstitute.org.
Oof. I have very mixed feelings about this book. My summary: a fascinating, but flawed, glimpse of how neurochemistry influences our daily lives. On the one hand, it's a really handy new way of thinking about emotions, habits, and physiological responses that has immediate practical implications. On the other hand...
The book makes a lot of claims about the relationship between neurochemistry and evolution, most of which sound like the kind of just-so stories that result in the field of evolutionary psychology being mostly bunk. The lack of citations for any of these claims, and the lack of any willingness to delve into technical explanations, really bothers me -- "just trust me, I'm an expert" doesn't sell it. Especially when the author makes gender-essentialist remarks or suggests society's influence on unhappiness is negligible.
Speaking of that last part: the parts of this book where the author rants about how people are always "blaming 'our society'" are the most insulting, condescending, and tone-deaf parts of the book. She basically dismisses the entire social justice movement because apparently it's useless to focus on external problems when you can just focus on stimulating more of your happy chemicals. What this perspective misses is that focusing on yourself doesn't help anyone else and doesn't prevent the continuation of dysfunctional, unnecessary social patterns. She's a neuroscientist, not a sociologist, so why does she feel the need to interject these comments that basically only serve to dismiss entire disciplines and ways of life?
Furthermore, the book seems predicated on the assumption that "being happy more of the time" is the reader's goal. While that assumption might be reasonable for most people, it's worth questioning and exploring, and I was disappointed by the uncritical view that this is just the right thing to do... when, for example, there's so much evidence that the more long-term rewarding things in life, e.g. learning new skills, coming to terms with difficult emotions, understanding and empathizing with people subject to a great amount of harm, etc. require a certain amount of struggle, suffering, and unhappiness. I think what most of us really want is a full, rewarding life, including things that sustainably keep us happy, not just triggers for pressing the happy buttons in our brains.
And finally, even if reliably triggering happy chemicals in our brains *were* the goal, the book does a terrible job explaining how to actually implement this practice. The chapters on creating habits in 45 days basically sound like generic, regurgitated advice for forming habits, but she gives no examples of how to put that advice into practice or what the goal should even be. Am I supposed to be eliciting each of the 4 "happy chemicals" every day? Am I supposed to be replacing "bad" habits with better ones? What's the step-by-step plan -- do I start with "doing nothing" as some of the earlier chapters suggest and then eventually replace it with a better habit? When would I switch? These details are mysteriously missing.
Despite all these flaws, I learned a lot about endorphin, serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, and the mammalian instincts that trigger them. It helped me understand my own responses to certain situations, especially the concept that these feelings are somehow linked to a (mistaken) relationship between the stimulus and survival. Realizing that it's possible to retrain these responses through revealing that survival is not contingent on certain reflexive behaviors seems like a useful thing to realize and practice.
I've read several books on rewiring the brain to overcome anxiety and depression by changing our thoughts, and goodness knows there's a plethora of books on happiness. So I was pleased to discover a new angle on both subjects.
Imagine being able to train your brain to switch on happy chemicals that increase your feelings of well-being. Wouldn't that be a nifty trick? Well, it turns out you can!
Your brain has a big job to do: ensuring your survival. When it sees something good for you, it shoots out those feel-good chemicals: dopamine, endorphin, oxytocin, and serotonin. But darn it all, they don't last. They fizzle out and turn off. And once again, the brain is back to scanning the environment for danger.
So how do we keep more of those feel-good chemicals active? This book explains the process. The author takes the reader through an explanation of how and why the mammal brain works the way it does, why it creates unhappiness, how new experiences stimulate the happy guys, and how to rewire the brain through 45 days of new habits.
But first, you need to know which chemical you're lacking. Is it dopamine, that motivates you to get what you need? Is it endorphin, that allows you to ignore pain? Is it Oxytocin, that enables you to trust others and find safety in companionship? Or is it Serotonin, which motivates you to get respect? Once you know, you can use the tools in this book to balance and easily access all four chemicals.
I find this approach refreshing, uplifting, and quite doable. Check it out if you're looking for a fresh take on happiness and neuroscience.
Interesting book about how the mammalian brain works, especially the human brain. It explains how the hormones work and how to increase your dopamine, serotonin, endorphin, and oxytocin levels. There`s a summary at the end of each chapter that is really helpful. Our brain is weird and fascinating. I love learning about the ``whys` of our basic behaviors.
This book is self-published (through Breuning's own institute), her explanation of neurotransmitters is simplistic and assumes that we know more about how the brain works than we actually do, and she has no medical or scientific background (her PhD is not in the sciences and she's a professor of management).
This is literally a case of someone reading a few books and articles about a topic she has no expertise in, taking notes, and then padding those notes with self-help jargon and calling it a book ... certain bits are interesting and of course there's some truth to what she's saying, but I was very disappointed overall.
This book, highly rated by multiple reviewers, to me came as a huge disappointment. The text is pseudo-scientific, devoid of real ideas or deep understanding of human behavior.
The author claims to explain our behavior from evolutionary and hormonal points of view, and to propose an effective algorithm to change unwanted patterns of behavior. I think she does a poor job on these fronts. The book's explanatory part can be summed up as follows: "we behave a certain way because we evolved to behave that way" and "that's that motivates our behavior". The author wraps up two basic - and productive - ideas in sciency terms (while I doubt she gets the science right): (1) we associate certain situations with our past experience - whether good or bad - and thus choose to behave in certain way, usually determined by our past experience; and (2) we have positive expectations, and we feel bad when these are not met.
I fail to see how adding scientism to clumsy presentation of these ideas could build real understanding of human behavior or how it can lead to any practical change. Neither repeating the same mantra about evolution and hormones for a hundred times (I do not exaggerate) could help it.
To sum up, I would place this book to mediocre self-help category, instead of popular science, where it tries to place itself.
*** I received this book for free through Goodreads First Reads *** ** The Giveaway was Listed By Loretta (the author) ** * I received my copy on Mon, Jun 18 2012 *
THANK YOU GOODREADS FIRST READS AND LORETTA!
First off, I would like to note that 3 stars does in fact mean "I liked it." Also, I spent a year and a half of my early college education on eight different psychology classes, and a number of philosophy classes, so I had a good base knowledge of brain chemistry and different ideas of thought going into this book.
That being said...
I found it really hard to break into this book, but I was determined to fight through it because I did after all win the book, and the whole point was to read it and give a review. During the Introduction though I kept wondering if the author's intention was a book along the lines of "Brain Chemistry For Dummies" or a self-help book that only those educated in biological psychology would be able to make work for them.
As I worked through this mental block to the book though I did find a good refresher to the psychology classes I took so long ago as well as some new ways of looking at that information. That being said, the tone of the book never helped me make the leap from 3 stars to anything higher. I always felt like the author was talking to a child. There was also the constant barrage of "Don't worry, be happy," "You can't make other people happy," and "Just think happy thoughts" messages that got old really quick. For someone seeking out a self-help book, "Just be happy" is likely not going to work for them, they've heard it before.
I was able pull benefits from the book though, and I think a younger audience would be ideal for it. In fact, I got the wild idea in my head that if this book was offered as supplemental learning in a high school biology, life science, or psychology class, these kids would be walking out of that class with some very good ways to put what they are learning about the subjects to use in their own lives. In fact, I may offer it to my home-schooled daughter when we start covering biology and brain chemistry.
Another thing I liked about the book was that it didn't offer false claims like, "change your life in a week." It was honest in the fact that the brain takes time and concentrated effort to change. Forty-five days is the amount of time the author suggests that it takes to form better habits.
So I guess I got another selfhelp book even if I promised not to... However, this must be the most no-nonsense happiness guide ever written! There is absolutely no spirituality, neither psychotherapeutic theory and complicated case histories nor poetry in here, just plain description of four hormones and how they work in a layman's language. To me obviously, this became at times rather boring read. However, I will recommend this book to anyone of a more "rationalist" inclination than myself. This is as down to earth as it can get! Bullet points and all, with small exercise with lines to write included at the end of each chapter. Actually, I think the whole book would fit into a power point presentation. Enjoy. It could be as simple as this.
یه کتاب کاربردی برای استفاده مفاهیم هورمونشناسی در زندگی روزمره، من قبلا در طول دانشگاه هورمونها رو خونده بودم اما تأثیر محسوسش رو در زندگی هر روز نه، متوجه شدم بیشتر از حدی که فکر میکردم در جبر زیستی قرار داریم و نگاهم به تعارضات فردی متعادلتر شد، خوشحالم که کتاب رو خوندم و ازش خیلی نکات کاربردی رو یاد گرفتم، ولی یک نقد کلی داشتم اینکه ویژگیهای منحصر به فرد ابعاد روانی انسانها رو در نظر نگرفته و انسانگرایانه نیست رویکرد کتاب پستاندارگرایانه بود، و نه به عنوان انسانی که حاصل تعارضات گذشته و توانایی خودشکوفایی هست بلکه به عنوان یک هوموساپینس از آنالیز سیستم هورمونی مغزم لذت بردم😇
Книга рассказывает о 4 гормонах счастья и о том, что нам нужно делать в обыденной жизни, чтобы они вырабатывались в организме в достаточном количестве. Так как человек - это набор нейронных связей и алгоритмов, то и его счастье тоже состоит из определенных действий, событий и последующей химической реакции организма на них. Надо понять, что вызывает появление в организме гормонов счастья и завести привычки для их выработки. В книге детально описано, как такие привычки приобрести.
Автор еще затронула саму психологическую проблему достижения человеком счастья в современном мира. Попыталась разобраться в том, что нам мешает стать счастливыми и что с этим делать
Exactly what one could expect from someone who has a PhD in Philosophy and writes a book on neuroscience. You're probably better off with listening to an Andrew Huberman podcast instead.
Cartea este foarte interesantă și informativă . Ce ne face fericiți? Asta se întreabă autoarea, care este doctor in științe, și ne oferă imediat răspunsul. Sunt 4 hormoni ai fericirii: serotonina, dopamina, oxitocina si endorfina, care ne produc acele senzații de plăcere necesare fiecăruia dintre noi. Mecanismul formării acestor hormoni este descris amănunțit in carte, și pentru mine, felul în care funcționează organismul uman este fascinant. Ce declanșează producerea acestor hormoni? Sportul, dragostea, mâncarea, activitățile artistice care ne pasionează, contactul fizic cu oamenii dragi- toate sunt surse de fericire pentru oameni. De asemenea autoarea vorbește despre obiceiurile proaste, care pot forma hormonii fericirii, dar pe termen lung dăunează. Cum înlocuim acele obiceiuri cu altele sănătoase, care sa ne aducă un beneficiu garantat? Daca vă interesează această temă, cartea este minunată, o sa învățați multe din ea.
نویسنده در بخش اول میاد ۴ هورمون ما پستانداران رو که مسئول احساسات خوب ما هستند به همراه روش عملکردشون تشریح میکنه؛ اندورفین(هورمون کاهش دهنده حس درد جسمانی) ، آکسیتوسین(حس خوب ناشی از همدلی،اعتماد) ، سروتونین(احساس خوب کسب احترام، افتخار) ، دوپامین(احساس خوب یافتن، رسیدن) بعد توضیح کوتاهی راجع به هورمونهای ضد حال میده. تمام این توضیحات با استدلالهای تکاملی همراهند که گاهی صدمن یه غاز به نظر میان!
در بخش بعدی ساز و کار عادتها و مغز رو در بدن ما صرح میده. جالبترین نکته این کتاب برای من در این بخش بود و اون اینه که تغییر دادن یک عادت دقیقا و تحقیقا به مثابه آب کردن چربی برای کاهش وزنه و به همون سختی! چرا که لایههای چربی به نام میلین در مغز ما به مرور زمان شکل میگیرن که مسیرهای عصبی خاصی رو ایزوله میکنن و اون مسیر پها عادات رو تشکیل میدن؛ پس برای ترک یک عادت باید چربی بسوزونیم!!
در بخش آخر نویسنده راهکارهایی برای ایجاد مسیرهای جدید عصبی با استفاده از تحریک هورمون های درونی شادی بخش ارائه میکنه و به نوع اجرایی کردن اونها میپردازه. پن: نمیدونم واقعا کتاب سنگین بود یا ترجمه متوسط بود که بعضی جاهای کتاب رو نفهمیدم!
Foarte interesant. Sunt descrise mecanismele care conduc la secreția celor 4 hormoni ai fericirii, precum și soluții concrete cum poți controla / stimula acești hormoni.
"Wouldn’t it be great if you could turn on your happy chemicals in new ways? Wouldn’t it be nice to feel good while doing things that are actually good for you? You can, when you understand your mammal brain. Then you’ll know what turns on the happy chemicals in nature, and how your brain can substitute new habits for old ones. You can design a new happy habit and wire it into your neurons. This book helps you do that in forty-five days."
I enjoyed Habits Of A Happy Brain. It was a well put together short primer on the basics of neurobiology, with some self-help mixed in.
Author Loretta Breuning, PhD, is founder of The Inner Mammal Institute, which helps people find their power over their mammalian brain chemicals. As Professor of Management at California State University, and as a mom, she lost faith in the theory that happiness is our natural default state. By studying animals, she learned that unhappiness is part of our survival system, and happiness is a learned skill. She retired from teaching to build alternatives to the disease-based view of the brain.
Loretta Graziano Breuning:
Roughly one part neurobiology and one part self-help, the book is presented in a matter-of-fact, straightforward manner. Breuning writes with an easy and engaging style that should see even the scientifically illiterate layperson following along here.
She lays out the scope of the book in the intro, where she drops the quote above. The book makes the lofty promise of change in 45 days, by repeating any new and desirable new behaviour for at least that duration. Good stuff!
Breuning covers some basic neuroanatomy and brain functionality early on. Myelination and neural networks are briefly outlined. The book's central focus are the hormones Dopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, Endorphin, and Cortisol. The writing here is presented through an evolutionary lens.
She spends roughly the first half to two-thirds of the book here, before moving on to the actual "Habits of a Healthy Brain." Unfortunately, I felt that the latter part of the book, and the part that bears its namesake did not quite measure up to the writing in the first part. (This is possibly a subjective thing.) I was very impressed by the straightforward manner in which some complex neurobiology was presented in the first part, but found my attention wandering during the last part often. Maybe it's because I've read so many books in this genre, I'm not sure...
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As mentioned at the start of this review, I did like this one. I always appreciate when science can be effectively communicated in a simple, straightforward manner, as was the case here. I would recommend it to anyone interested. 3.5 stars
Cele 4 cuvinte mentionate, serotonina, dopamina, oxitocina si endorfinele, pentru necunoscatori sunt numele a 4 neurotransmitatori implicati, printre altele si in obtinerea unei stari de bine : serotonina –fericire, dopamine-substanta secretata in momentul cand anticipam o recompensa, oxitocina – eliberata in contextul legaturilor mama-copil, amoroase, familiale, sociale ( de exemplu, cand grupul de oameni care iti urmaresc pagina de facebook iti apreciaza/like postarile-se declanseaza secretia de oxitocina), si endorfinele – substante secretate in situatii de durere acuta intensa, in scopul mascarii acesteia pana cand am ajunge la punctul de prim ajutor. Ce mi a placut : Am aflat de ce reactionam intr-un anumit fel in anumite situatii. Felul in care sunt secretati acesti neurotransmitatori explica : de ce si cum apar nevoia de siguranta, dar si de noutate, nevoia de a fi recunoscuti/admirati si nevoia de apartenenta sociala. de ce nu este posibila fericirea vesnica si este mai bine asa. cateva despre neuronii oglida – practic, “ cine se aseamana se aduna “ :D. La sfarsitul fiecarui capitol este un fel de exercitiu, care ar ajuta sa ajungem mai aproape de o stare de bine. Ce nu am inteles : autoarea insista asupra unui numar de 45 de zile , pentru a crea un nou obicei. Nu stiu cum ajuns la cifra asta, nu am gasit nimic online. In concluzie : lectura este usoara, dar interesanta si cu siguranta afli lucruri noi, chiar daca ai mai citit neurobiologie. Nota mea : 4/5.
Loretta Breuning este Profesor de Management la California State University. Am tot cautat sa vad in ce calitate sau cum a ajuns sa scrie o carte despre neurotransmitatori, dar nu am gasit.
Познавательная книга о гормонах дофамине, серотонине, окситоцине и эндорфине. Как работает каждый из гормонов, практические упражнения как развить и укрепить положительные воздействия этих гормонов и снизить отрицательные.
Цитата: Привычка возлагать вину за свои несчастья на других очень тяжело поддается искоренению, потому что немедленно дает человеку ряд вознаграждений: * Серотонин: вы кажетесь себе более значимым, когда боретесь с воображаемой несправедливостью жизни. * Окситоцин: вам кажется, что вы незримыми узами связаны с другими, столь же обездоленными людьми. * Дофамин: вы испытываете возбуждение, кода ищите и находите подтверждение тому, что заслуженная доля счастья вас миновала. * Эндорфин: вы можете испытывать физическую боль, которая будет служить дополнительным доказательством того, что вы чего-то лишены в этой жизни.
Таким образом продолжается формирование нейронной цепочки, которая заставит вас искать чувство комфорта в своей обделённости. Если вы возьметесь за поиски подтверждений, что доля счастья вас миновала, вы их найдете. Но они принесут чувство комфорта лишь на мгновенье, а потом вам снова придется браться за поиски. Вы ничего не сделаете для собственного счастья, пока верите, что его «умыкнул» кто-то другой.
This book is a great guide to building better habits. New habits are hard to create, but not impossible to create. As the author shows, what is needed is reinforcement through repetition and emotion.
The book does an excellent job of explaining what drives behavior, and how to control it with happy habits. There are numerous exercises throughout the book to help you understand and create new habits. Included are tools to train your brain plus practical suggestions.
The author also provides valuable resources to learn more about specific topics covered in the book.
As the author says, you are ultimately responsible for your own happiness. This book is your guide to creating happy habits to make your life better.
I was hoping this book would be more about biology. It turned out to be a long lecture about being happy. The whole idea (of doing the right thing for your brain for 45 days straight) could easily fit into an Instagram post. Sorry to say. Read Robert Sapolsky instead, folks.
Əvvəla onu deməliyəm ki, keçmiş bir biologiya müəllimi olaraq bu qədər sıxılaraq oxuduğum bir sinir bilimi kitabı olmamışdı. Kitabın əvvəli maraqlı başlasa da yazıçının üslubu və kitabın axarı o qədər gec gedirdi ki, bəzən beynimi yerindən çıxarıb pəncərədən aşağı atmaq istəyirdim.
Kitab beynimizdə xoşbəxtlik hissinin yaranmasında rolu olan 4 kimyəvi maddədən danışır.
Dopamin - beynimizin mükafat sistemini idarə edən, və hər hansı bir müvəfəqiyyət zamanı xoşbəxtlik hissini yaradan hormon
Oksitosin - Güvən hormonu da olaraq bilinən, sevdiyiniz bir insanı qucaqladıqda və ya bir heyvanı sığalladığınızda beyninizin kimyasını dəyişən hormon
Serotonin - Hörmət hormonu, insanların fikirlərinizə dəyər verdikdə və sizə qarşı olan sosial hörməti hiss etdiyinizdə ifraz olunan maddə
Endorfin - təbii ağrı kəsici, ağrıların müəyyən bir müddət dayanmasına kömək edən maddə.
Fikrimcə bu məlumatları oxudunuzsa kitabda bundan sonra öyrənə biləcəyiniz çox bir şey yoxdur. Amma yenə də vaxtınız varsa, bu maddələr haqqında daha çox öyrənmək istəyirsinizsə yenə də bu kitabı oxumayın, YouTubeda kifayət qədər maraqlı videolar var bu mövzuda :)
I have been reading about "happiness" and "fun" for about 15 years, ever since a really low point in my life. This just may be the most important book I have ever read, period, because now I have a model that fits exactly with my ups and downs and a clear understanding of how to manage and even steer them successfully. IN PARTICULAR, her theory that "status" (essentially [as I understand the author] exercising control over how you're treated) is the opposite of depression was a eureka moment for me. Her other titles are "I, Mammal" and "Beyond Cynical" which flesh out the first book. Do yourself a huge favour and read all 3.
I am very familiar with neurons and neurotransmitters, it being a significant part of my job to lecture about them. However, relating them to behavior is more challenging. This book is practical and clear in that regard. I highlighted at least one passage on nearly every page.
كتاب "Habits of a Happy Brain" للمؤلفة Loretta Graziano Breuning يشرح كيف يمكننا تدريب أدمغتنا لتحفيز المواد الكيميائية المسؤولة عن السعادة، وهي: الدوبامين، السيروتونين، الأوكسيتوسين، والإندورفين، بأساليب صحية وواعية. إليك ملخصاً لأبرز أفكاره:
الفكرة الأساسية:
أدمغتنا تطلق المواد الكيميائية التي تجعلنا نشعر بالسعادة عندما نتصور أننا نحقق أهدافاً تخدم بقاءنا. ولكن هذه الدفعات مؤقتة، ونبحث باستمرار عن وسائل لإعادة تحفيزها. تكمن المشكلة في أن بعض العادات التي نستخدمها لذلك قد تكون مضرة.
الهرمونات الأربعة للسعادة:
• الدوبامين: الشعور بالإنجاز أو التوقع؛ يُحفَّز عند اقترابك من هدف (مثل رؤية خط النهاية).
• بناء عادات ترتكز على الوعي يمكنها تهدئة الكورتيزول عند الحاجة.
• إعادة توجيه التركيز من الأفكار السلبية إلى المواقف التي تستدعي الأمان والسعا��ة.
• كل هذه الأدوات غير مكلفة ويمكن تفعيلها ذاتيًا دون الاعتماد على البيئة أو الآخرين.
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شرح تفصيلي لكل هرمون من هرمونات السعادة الأربعة، مع العادات السلبية التي قد تحفّزه مؤقتًا ولكن تؤدي لمشاكل لاحقًا، مقابل العادات الصحية التي يمكن أن تحفّزه بطريقة مفيدة ومستدامة:
1. الدوبامين – Dopamine
وظيفته: يمنحك شعورًا بالتحفيز والنشوة عندما تقترب من تحقيق هدف.
عادات سلبية تحفزه:
• الإفراط في تصفح مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي بحثًا عن إشعارات أو إعجابات.
• الإدمان على ألعاب الفيديو أو المقامرة.
• التسوّق بدافع المتعة وليس الحاجة.
• الإفراط في تناول السكريات والوجبات السريعة.
• الهروب المستمر من المهام الصعبة إلى أنشطة سهلة ومسلية.
العادات الصحية البديلة:
• تقسيم الأهداف الكبيرة إلى خطوات صغيرة وتحقيقها بالتدريج.
• الاحتفال بالنجاحات اليومية، مهما كانت بسيطة.
• تتبع الإنجازات والكتابة عنها في دفتر ملاحظات.
• ممارسة هواية تحتاج إلى مهارة وتقدّم، مثل الرسم أو العزف أو القراءة المنتظمة.
• ممارسة التمارين الرياضية التي تزداد صعوبتها تدريجيًا.
2. الإندورفين – Endorphin
وظيفته: يخفف الألم ويمنحك شعورًا بالنشوة المؤقتة.
عادات سلبية تحفزه:
• إيذاء النفس (جسديًا أو عاطفيًا) لإحساس لحظي بالراحة.
• التعلّق بالألم العاطفي في علاقات سامة (لأنه يحرّك شعور “الراحة بعد الألم”).
• البحث عن أنشطة خطرة بشكل قهري (مثل الإدمان على الأدرينالين).
العادات الصحية البديلة:
• ممارسة التمارين الرياضية، خصوصًا التي تجهد الجسم بشكل معتدل.
• الضحك الحقيقي (مشاهدة كوميديا، جلسة ممتعة مع أصدقاء).
• البكاء في لحظة حقيقية من الانفراج أو الحزن.
• تمارين التمدد أو اليوغا.
• المشاركة في نشاطات بدنية مرحة (مثل الرقص أو الجري مع الأصدقاء).
Başlangıç kitabı olarak okunabilir özellikte. Sağlıkçı değilseniz ve hormonların etkilerini öğrenmek istiyorsanız okuyabilirsiniz. Güzel örneklerle anlatılmış.
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Great book about happiness and how to increase your levels of dopamine, serotonin, endorphin and oxytocin. This book deals with reality and is very practical and useful.