Do you know how hard your body works to make you happy?

Every week, there are always five, six or seven days when I don’t want to go to work, and I am also anxious about life. Sometimes happiness disappears in a flash.

How can we regain happiness?

Happiness is spiritual pleasure and spiritual satisfaction, and it is human nature to pursue happiness. Studies have found that there are a variety of chemicals in the brain that can affect the happiness index. So, if you are not happy, you can make yourself happy through your own conscious operation!

"Happy Courier" Dopamine

Everyone is familiar with dopamine, right? Those young couples who are in sweet love will secrete a lot of dopamine.

Dopamine is also known as the "courier" of happiness because the dopamine in the brain sends signals to other nerve cells through synapses, and one of the pathways involved in the "reward system" is particularly important.

Dopamine uses the reward mechanism to reinforce and motivate behaviors that are beneficial to the body. It anticipates pleasure and drives our brains to do things.

Dopamine's "reward system"

For example, in the hot summer, when I passed by a convenience store, and I didn't react to it, my dopamine immediately shouted: "Come on!" It has ice cream, ice americano, ice coke and big watermelon!

So it was my brain that ordered me to buy something, not my initiative!

This is because the brain finds the opportunity to get reward and releases dopamine, and a large amount of dopamine does not directly produce happiness, but like a courier, sending the expectation of happiness to your hands, let us discover how to be happy.

In short, the utility of dopamine is to expect rewards, not to receive them.

The neurotransmitter dopamine is mainly responsible for the brain's desire, feeling, and transmits excitement and happiness information, so it is used in medicine to treat depression. So, can we make the brain pump out dopamine, so that we will not be happier?

The answer is: no.

Excessive dopamine production can cause diseases such as Huntington's disease (where the limbs and trunk twitch involuntarily like a dance, making it difficult to move around in daily life). In addition, dopamine also has a certain relationship with addiction. For example, nicotine in cigarettes can increase the secretion of dopamine, thus "kidnapping" the nervous system of smokers.

Appropriate dopamine makes the body look forward to happiness, but this expectation is often immediate, such as seeking the simplest and easiest things, such as some people like to eat desserts and play mobile phones when they feel stressed.

Who knows the pain of losing weight after eating?

However, at this time, is the "courier" really happy?

Serotonin that "plays straight"

Unlike dopamine, the relationship between serotonin and happy mood is more intuitive. Serotonin is a monoamine neurotransmitter mainly found in the gastrointestinal tract, platelets and central nervous system.

It has various functions, including regulating bowel movements, regulating mood, appetite, and sleep, as well as some cognitive functions, including memory and learning.

Serotonin

So, without serotonin, can you still be happy?

There are many reasons for the reduction of serotonin, including stress, lack of sleep, malnutrition, and lack of exercise. When serotonin falls below a certain amount, people will have difficulty concentrating, and will gradually feel stressed and tired, and even worse. Can cause depression.

Are you still up late?

Of course, if you want to increase serotonin secretion, you can take in enough nutrition, go to bed early and get up early, and exercise regularly!

"Bitter before sweet" endorphins

The happiness brought by dopamine may be an addictive pseudo-happiness. The happiness brought by serotonin will not deceive people, but once there is a lack of serotonin, the happiness will not stop. Of course goose! There is one kind of joy that lasts, and that is the joy that endorphins bring!

Let it go, the real "Xueba" is here, applaud!

In 1975, endorphins were discovered simultaneously by two independent groups of researchers. Endorphins are morphine-like biochemical compounds that can be produced in animals by themselves, and are amino compounds secreted by the pituitary and subthalamic parts of vertebrates.

It produces pain relief and euphoria equivalent to natural pain relievers. In other words, the happiness brought by endorphins is positive, calm and fulfilling. Endorphins can help people stay young and happy, so they are also called "happy hormones".

How can I get endorphins?

Scientists have pointed out that exercise can stimulate the secretion of endorphins, which can make people feel happy and energetic. Please note that three days of fishing and two days of netting will not stimulate the secretion of endorphins. The secretion of endorphins requires long-term, continuous, moderate to high-intensity exercise. People who persist in sports for a long time often feel happy after exercise, which is endorphin happiness.

Deep breathing is also a condition for the secretion of endorphins. Meditation, meditation, and yoga will also increase the secretion of endorphins.

If dopamine happiness is instant gratification, then endorphin happiness must be delayed gratification after bitterness and sweetness. If you want lasting endorphin happiness, you have to make both physical and mental efforts!

Everyone has the instinct to pursue happiness, and also has the hormones to get happiness, so when you are not happy, you can use the results of scientific research to strengthen your happiness. For example, go to bed early and get up early, take in rich nutrition, and exercise properly and regularly...

Of course, you can also choose to have a relationship.