Toxic Happiness?
- Dec 1, 2024
- 2 min read
Updated: Aug 3
Oxytocin. what is oxytocin you ask? Oxytocin, dopamine, and serotonin are often referred to as our “happy hormones.” I love the thought of being happy, I spend a lot of time thinking of how to be this way, but not from a famine or a lack of, sort of way, but more like the Earth Wind & Fire song
"Got To Get You Into My Life" sort of way, yeah... yeah, yeah!... Ok, I'm back... In my pursuit of happiness, I am heavily influenced by how I want to feel, not by how I don't want to feel, there is a difference. Focusing on what I want instead of what I don't want, I find gives me a better chance of actually having it. Sometimes pursuing happiness can feel like chasing the carrot, but what helps me is choosing carrots that I can actually catch! I believe the root of all these processes reside in my thought life, (read my blog post "The Mind Is Renewable" for a spiritual take. And yes, there is some chemical stuff that happens in the brain too, that can make this happy hormone thing a bit more challenging for some, but I'm no expert on that. Dr Rhonda Johnson a health educator has a wonderful video called "Humor Heals" talking about these hormones with her prevention made simple examples. As with everything, there are challenges to being happy for everyone, and identifying those in my life helps me clear the way to having more access to those wonderful, elevated feelings that we all love. What challenges lie in your way when attempting to be happier? Can you eliminate them? Go around them? or in the case in the video, include them? The road of life isn't always flat, or comes with the wind at your back, and life happens to us all, so use it ALL and remember... It's not about stuffing your sadness or portraying happiness, for me it's all in the being, through the things that make me happy and the things that bring me joy!
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Being well in a creative sort of way ❤️.
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