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(0)Loretta Graziano Breuning
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Learn the scientific benefits of positivism!
Sometimes it's easiest to look for the worst in every situation--our brains have evolved to scan for problems in order to help avoid them. But you can transcend this natural negativity--if you know how.
The Science of Positivity teaches you how cynical thought habits are formed, and how you can rewire yourself to go beyond them. Neurochemical expert Loretta Graziano Breuning, PhD, empowers you to transcend...
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Anxiety is natural. Calm is learned.
If you didn't learn yesterday, you can learn today.
It's not easy, of course. Once your natural alarm system is triggered, it's hard to find the off switch. Indeed, you don't have an off switch until you build one. Tame Your Anxiety shows you how.
Readers learn about the brain chemicals that make us feel threatened and the chemicals that make us feel safe. You'll see how your brain turns on these chemicals...
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Do you feel like people are putting you down?
The frustration can ruin an otherwise good life. It feels real until you know how the mammal brain works. Animals seek the one-up position to get more food and mating opportunity. Natural selection built a brain that seeks the one-up position as if your life depends on it. You seek it too. This book shows you how to make peace with this frustrating impulse.
SEROTONIN AND SOCIAL POWER
The mammal brain...
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Our happy chemicals are inherited from earlier mammals. They reward you for behaviors that promote survival in the state of nature. Humans have always struggled to manage these impulses. Here's the history of today's struggle that you haven't heard.
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1. The Joy of Revolt
2. The Religion of Revolt
3. What Harm Can in a Little Revolt Do?
4. Overlooked Information
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You have power over your emotions, but it's limited, so you need to understand it. Here is a simple explanation of the chemicals that make us feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. You'll find out what turns them on in animals, and how you manage them with the animal part of your brain. Then you'll learn to rewire your happy chemicals by feeding your brain new inputs in a new way. We'll do the same for the unhappy chemical, cortisol,...
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You care about the greater good, but you want to define it for yourself. What if you disagree with the politically correct view?
You fear ridicule, shunning and attack, so you tell yourself it's not worth it and find a way to conform. Until one day, you can't.
I was politically correct until the day I heard myself lie about a simple fact because the truth didn't sound progressive. I froze— in the middle of a lecture to 150 students. Enough! I decided...
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Rewire your brain to avoid the trap of comparison and status-seeking to achieve more contentment and satisfaction from life
People care about status despite their best intentions because our brains are inherited from animals who cared about status. The survival value of status in the state of nature helps us understand our intense emotions about status today. Beneath your verbal brain, you have the brain common to all mammals. It rewards you with...