Loretta Graziano Breuning's Blog, page 5
January 18, 2017
Chronocentrism
You can end up feeling battered by the tide of history until you know how your brain creates its neurochemical response to public events.
December 8, 2016
Social Comparison: Don’t Let It Ruin Your Holiday
Social comparison often triggers cortisol, which taints a good life with a bad threatened feeling. Fortunately, you can re-direct this natural impulse. Here's how.
November 2, 2016
Why Politics Makes People Crazy
Political alliances help us meet social needs, which stimulates our happy chemicals. But your survival-seeking brain sees political disappointments as survival threats.
October 20, 2016
You Have Power Over Your Brain Chemistry
Your brain has an operating system inherited from earlier animals. It rewards you with "happy chemicals" when you step toward meeting needs and alarms you with "unhappy chemicals.
September 14, 2016
Shift the Sadness of Losing Summer
Our brain brain is good at scanning for negatives, but you can wire yourself to focus on positives.
August 30, 2016
Stop Anxiety by Adjusting Expectations
Your brain relies on the pathways it has, so it will keep reactivating your anxiety pathways unless you create a new place for your electricity to flow.
August 16, 2016
Living With Intention
Intention is the power to redirect your thoughts. This power is limited. Here's how to grow it instead of wasting it.
August 9, 2016
Why Winning Feels Good
The facts of our brain’s natural competitiveness have been submerged by a warm and fuzzy view of nature. The truth can help us manage our quirky neurochemical operating system.
July 7, 2016
7 Habits of a Happy Brain
You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. Here's how to choose experiences that stimulate each happy chemical.
June 23, 2016
3 Reasons Why You Should Cuddle More
Cuddling can help you rewrite your history of trust, and enable you to enjoy feeling safe more often.
