Game-changing Study: Epigenetic Memories are Passed Down 14. A Doctor's Advice For Inner Happiness Is So Easy That I Wasn't A Believer Until I Tried It. Mind you, Dr. Amit Sood is not a self-help author or a salesman of snake oil or a motivational storyteller aiming to sell high speaking fees. He's a professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic, a fellow of the American College of Physicians, and a well-respected researcher and practitioner of integrated medicine. Sood put together the following short on how to cultivate a (very) happy brain. It's backed by an evidence base, and it's powerful. So go ahead and give his lessons a try. It's the doctor's orders. A Happy Brain Meet Broody (work with me, people). Broody's friend took him to a class on happy brains. Three Traits of the Brain But What Does This All Mean? It's really that simple. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck. In my life, I have given a fuck about many people and many things.
I have also not given a fuck about many people and many things. And those fucks I have not given have made all the difference. People often say the key to confidence and success in life is to simply “not give a fuck.” Indeed, we often refer to the strongest, most admirable people we know in terms of their lack of fucks given. Like “Oh, look at Susie working weekends again, she doesn’t give a fuck.” Chances are you know somebody in your life who, at one time or another, did not give a fuck and went on to accomplish amazing feats. Now, while not giving a fuck may seem simple on the surface, it’s a whole new bag of burritos under the hood. The point is, most of us struggle throughout our lives by giving too many fucks in situations where fucks do not deserve to be given. Fucks given everywhere. This is the problem, my friend. What we don’t realize is that there is a fine art of non-fuck-giving.
This may sound easy. Psych Central - Trusted mental health, depression, bipolar, ADHD & psychology information. Grounding or Earthing: A Key Mechanism That Keeps You Healthy. Wisdom-of-menopause-excerpt-121211.pdf. What happens to your cells when you experience happiness? Too much research has been devoted to the science of stress, depression and the connection to disease and not enough to the biology of joy.
If a greater emphasis was placed on why we don’t go to doctors when we are feeling optimistic, happy, and joyful, there would be less value and importance placed on the emotional states that coincidentally generate more money for those manufacturing medication. There are many ways to experience pleasure in our brains and happiness might be the one emotion that prevents and reverses the cascade of cellular events that lead to disease. © unknown Artificial Happiness A lot of people get addicted to chemicals – alcohol, cocaine, amphetamine, heroin, and nicotine.
Why do they do that, and why aren’t they happy? It is because brains have a variety of chemical systems that regulate their electrical activities in waking and sleeping, and the addictive drugs artificially stimulate those systems, but the feelings are not those of joy. Nietsche realized this.