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<rss xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:podcast="https://podcastindex.org/namespace/1.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" version="2.0"><channel><title>The Happy Brain</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-happy-brain</link><description><![CDATA[Do you wonder what stimulates your happy brain chemicals- dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphin? Answer your questions with these lively conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Still have more questions? Read the book and be a guest on the show yourself! Contact Dr. Breuning and learn more about her work at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job of each chemical in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals to reward steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them a lot. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can find new ways to feel good, wherever you are right now.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><atom:link href="https://www.spreaker.com/show/3089431/episodes/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><language>en</language><category>Science</category><copyright>Copyright MHNR Network, LLC</copyright><image><url>https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg</url><title>The Happy Brain</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-happy-brain</link></image><lastBuildDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 00:58:02 +0000</lastBuildDate><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:owner><itunes:name>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:name><itunes:email>info@mhnrnetwork.com</itunes:email></itunes:owner><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:subtitle>Do you wonder what stimulates your happy brain chemicals- dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphin?</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Do you wonder what stimulates your happy brain chemicals- dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphin? Answer your questions with these lively conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Still have more questions? Read the book and be a guest on the show yourself! Contact Dr. Breuning and learn more about her work at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job of each chemical in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals to reward steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them a lot. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can find new ways to feel good, wherever you are right now.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:category text="Science"/><itunes:category text="Health &amp; Fitness"><itunes:category text="Mental Health"/></itunes:category><itunes:category text="Education"><itunes:category text="Self-Improvement"/></itunes:category><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:type>episodic</itunes:type><item><title>Serotonin and the Natural Urge for Social Dominance</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/serotonin-and-the-natural-urge-for-social-dominance--62625427</link><description><![CDATA[You have probably noticed that my explanation of serotonin is not what you hear elsewhere. This episode explains why, and gives you the raw biology of your serotonin so you can find your power over it.<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />The music on this podcast was composed by William Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/musicbywmsharp/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/musicbywmsharp/</a>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/62625427</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/62625427/happy_brain_serotonin_natural_urge_social_dominance_11_5_24.mp3" length="69431296" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>You have probably noticed that my explanation of serotonin is not what you hear elsewhere. This episode explains why, and gives you the raw biology of your serotonin so you can find your power over it.

The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[You have probably noticed that my explanation of serotonin is not what you hear elsewhere. This episode explains why, and gives you the raw biology of your serotonin so you can find your power over it.<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />The music on this podcast was composed by William Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/musicbywmsharp/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/musicbywmsharp/</a>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1736</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,class,dopamine,endorphin,habits,happy,health,inner,institute,learning,mammal,master,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,serotonin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Trauma and Dating</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/trauma-and-dating--67421209</link><description><![CDATA[My guest is Sasha Hershfeld, creator of <a href="http://traumadater.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TraumaDater.com</a>, which helps people see the link between their early pain and their present patterns of romantic attraction…and grow from it.<br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />The music on this podcast was composed by William Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/musicbywmsharp/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/musicbywmsharp/</a><br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/67421209</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2025 16:01:54 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/67421209/happy_brain_trauma_and_dating_8_18_24.mp3" length="99811704" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>My guest is Sasha Hershfeld, creator of http://traumadater.com/, which helps people see the link between their early pain and their present patterns of romantic attraction…and grow from it.
The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[My guest is Sasha Hershfeld, creator of <a href="http://traumadater.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">TraumaDater.com</a>, which helps people see the link between their early pain and their present patterns of romantic attraction…and grow from it.<br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />The music on this podcast was composed by William Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/musicbywmsharp/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/musicbywmsharp/</a><br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2496</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,cognitive,cortisol,dating,dopamine,endorphin,growth,healing,health,mental,mindbodyconnection,neuroscience,neurotransmitters,relationships,science,sciencepodcast,selfcare,serotonin,stressrelief,trauma</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why Doesn't Love Last</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/why-doesn-t-love-last--60959211</link><description><![CDATA[Love feels spectacular because it sparks all four happy chemicals, but you end up disappointed if you expect the good feelings to last. Here’s how to build realistic expectations about love so you can relieve that disappointment.<br /><br /><br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />The music on this podcast was composed by William Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/musicbywmsharp/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/musicbywmsharp/</a>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/60959211</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2024 20:19:00 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/60959211/happy_brain_why_doesn_t_love_last_8_8_24.mp3" length="71809483" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Love feels spectacular because it sparks all four happy chemicals, but you end up disappointed if you expect the good feelings to last. Here’s how to build realistic expectations about love so you can relieve that disappointment.



The HAPPY BRAIN...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Love feels spectacular because it sparks all four happy chemicals, but you end up disappointed if you expect the good feelings to last. Here’s how to build realistic expectations about love so you can relieve that disappointment.<br /><br /><br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />The music on this podcast was composed by William Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/musicbywmsharp/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/musicbywmsharp/</a>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1796</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>attraction,brain,dating,dopamine,healthy,love,mentalhealth,mind,nature,nurture,oxytocin,perception,relationships,romance,science,serotonin,sex,thinking,thought</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Can We Talk About Death?</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/can-we-talk-about-death--61230710</link><description><![CDATA[Excuse me for bringing up this harsh topic, but you can relieve stress with these 4 new and scientific ways to think about death.<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br /><br />The music on this podcast was composed by William Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/musicbywmsharp/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/musicbywmsharp/</a>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/61230710</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Sep 2024 07:00:05 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/61230710/happy_brain_let_s_talk_about_death_9_1_24.mp3" length="34537974" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Excuse me for bringing up this harsh topic, but you can relieve stress with these 4 new and scientific ways to think about death.

The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Excuse me for bringing up this harsh topic, but you can relieve stress with these 4 new and scientific ways to think about death.<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br /><br />The music on this podcast was composed by William Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/musicbywmsharp/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/musicbywmsharp/</a>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>864</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>2024,brain,chemicals,death,dopamine,dying,endorphin,happy,health,hope,influence,mental,mind,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,podcast,practice,serotonin,training</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Don't Blame Your Phone</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/don-t-blame-your-phone--60815442</link><description><![CDATA[Our brain is designed to have life-or-death feelings about social recognition, so locking up phones and deleting social accounts will not end bad feelings. Our only option is to learn to manage our quirky brain. <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a> <br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />The music on this podcast was composed by William Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/musicbywmsharp/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/musicbywmsharp/ </a>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/60815442</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2024 07:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/60815442/happy_brain_don_t_blame_your_phone_7_26_24.mp3" length="46720439" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Our brain is designed to have life-or-death feelings about social recognition, so locking up phones and deleting social accounts will not end bad feelings. Our only option is to learn to manage our quirky brain. https://innermammalinstitute.org/ 

The...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Our brain is designed to have life-or-death feelings about social recognition, so locking up phones and deleting social accounts will not end bad feelings. Our only option is to learn to manage our quirky brain. <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a> <br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />The music on this podcast was composed by William Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/musicbywmsharp/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/musicbywmsharp/ </a>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1168</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>addiction,brain,chemicals,dopamine,endorphin,happy,health,inner,institute,mammal,media,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,phones,podcast,serotonin,social</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Addicted to Politics</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/addicted-to-politics--60751302</link><description><![CDATA[Politics sparks dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin so we keep wanting more, but it makes us feel bad in the long run. Here’s how to relieve your addiction to politics.<br /><br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />The music on this podcast was composed by William Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/musicbywmsharp/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/musicbywmsharp/</a>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/60751302</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jul 2024 07:00:04 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/60751302/happy_brain_update_addiction_to_politics_7_20_24.mp3" length="58014741" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Politics sparks dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin so we keep wanting more, but it makes us feel bad in the long run. Here’s how to relieve your addiction to politics.


The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Politics sparks dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin so we keep wanting more, but it makes us feel bad in the long run. Here’s how to relieve your addiction to politics.<br /><br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />The music on this podcast was composed by William Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/musicbywmsharp/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/musicbywmsharp/</a>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1451</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>2024,addiction,advertisements,biden,brain,change,dopmine,endorphin,fear,health,mental,oxytocin,politics,reminders,serotonin,stress,trump</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How To Avoid Getting Sucked into Other People’s Misery</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-to-avoid-getting-sucked-into-other-people-s-misery--60625326</link><description><![CDATA[Here are 3 simple steps to feel good despite the inevitable negativity of family, friends, coworkers, and public affairs.<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />The music on this podcast was composed by William Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/musicbywmsharp/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/musicbywmsharp/</a>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/60625326</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jul 2024 07:00:04 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/60625326/happy_brain_avoid_other_people_s_misery_7_7_24.mp3" length="42086316" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Here are 3 simple steps to feel good despite the inevitable negativity of family, friends, coworkers, and public affairs.

The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Here are 3 simple steps to feel good despite the inevitable negativity of family, friends, coworkers, and public affairs.<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />The music on this podcast was composed by William Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/musicbywmsharp/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/musicbywmsharp/</a>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1053</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>boundaries,brain,chemicals,conflict,dopamine,endorphin,happy,health,inner,institute,mammal,mental,misery,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,resolution,serotonin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Ruthless Compassion</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/ruthless-compassion--60293373</link><description><![CDATA[Dr. Sirota founded the Ruthless Compassion Institute to teach people to be “kind” instead of “nice,” because the latter is often dysfunctional. (<a href="https://marciasirotamd.com/ruthless-compassion-institute" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://marciasirotamd.com/ruthless-compassion-institute</a>)<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/60293373</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2024 07:00:03 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/60293373/happy_brain_ruthless_compassion_6_5_24.mp3" length="104260879" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Dr. Sirota founded the Ruthless Compassion Institute to teach people to be “kind” instead of “nice,” because the latter is often dysfunctional. (https://marciasirotamd.com/ruthless-compassion-institute)

The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Dr. Sirota founded the Ruthless Compassion Institute to teach people to be “kind” instead of “nice,” because the latter is often dysfunctional. (<a href="https://marciasirotamd.com/ruthless-compassion-institute" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://marciasirotamd.com/ruthless-compassion-institute</a>)<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2607</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>anger,brain,buddhism,chemistry,compassion,dopamine,endorphin,fear,health,mental,mindset,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,practice,seratonin,serotonin,spirituality,stress</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>When Students Don’t Engage</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/when-students-don-t-engage--60048965</link><description><![CDATA[A substitute teacher asks me how the inner-mammal perspective can help him manage the bad behavior he observes in the classroom.<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br /><br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/60048965</guid><pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2024 07:00:04 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/60048965/happy_brain_larry_mayer_students_dont_engage_5_15_24.mp3" length="126246577" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>A substitute teacher asks me how the inner-mammal perspective can help him manage the bad behavior he observes in the classroom.

The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[A substitute teacher asks me how the inner-mammal perspective can help him manage the bad behavior he observes in the classroom.<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br /><br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3157</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,classroom,conversation,dopamine,education,endorphin,engagement,happy,health,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,seratonin,serotonin,social</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Food Panaceas and Food Alarmism</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/food-panaceas-and-food-alarmism--60047265</link><description><![CDATA[“Fat Burning Man” chats with me about how we can wade through the avalanche of conflicting claims about food and wellness. (<a href="https://abeljames.com/fatburningman/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://abeljames.com/fatburningman/</a>)<br /><br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/60047265</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2024 07:00:03 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/60047265/happy_brain_abel_bascom_5_15_24.mp3" length="124086773" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>“Fat Burning Man” chats with me about how we can wade through the avalanche of conflicting claims about food and wellness. (https://abeljames.com/fatburningman/)


The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways....</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[“Fat Burning Man” chats with me about how we can wade through the avalanche of conflicting claims about food and wellness. (<a href="https://abeljames.com/fatburningman/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://abeljames.com/fatburningman/</a>)<br /><br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3103</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,diet,dopamine,education,endorphin,food,happy,health,learning,mammal,neural,neuroplasticity,nutrition,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,seratonin,serotonin,the</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>If Your Therapist Isn't Open to You</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/if-your-therapist-isn-t-open-to-you--59584628</link><description><![CDATA[Andrew Hartz created the Open Therapy Institute to help people find therapists who respect their world view, and to help therapists respect people who are disparaged by their politicized credentialing programs.. <a href="https://www.opentherapyinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.opentherapyinstitute.org</a><br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59584628</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 07:00:08 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59584628/happy_brain_andrew_hartz_if_therapist_isnt_open_to_you_4_15_24.mp3" length="106343361" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Andrew Hartz created the Open Therapy Institute to help people find therapists who respect their world view, and to help therapists respect people who are disparaged by their politicized credentialing programs.. https://www.opentherapyinstitute.org/...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Andrew Hartz created the Open Therapy Institute to help people find therapists who respect their world view, and to help therapists respect people who are disparaged by their politicized credentialing programs.. <a href="https://www.opentherapyinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.opentherapyinstitute.org</a><br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2659</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,doctors,dopamine,endorphin,happy,health,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,serotonin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Pakistani Doctor on Lifestyle Diseases</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/pakistani-doctor-on-lifestyle-diseases--59471100</link><description><![CDATA[Dr. Attia Ansari tells me how her patients in Pakistan "just want a pill” instead of working to improving their wellbeing and lifestyle. Here’s the <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/bfcai2ilp0c6t2g/Emotional%20Eating%20Comic_Fitspire.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Emotional Eating link</a> that was mentioned.<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br /><br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59471100</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 07:00:05 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59471100/happy_brain_attia_ansari_pakistani_dr_lifestyle_stress_4_15_24.mp3" length="92136928" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Dr. Attia Ansari tells me how her patients in Pakistan "just want a pill” instead of working to improving their wellbeing and lifestyle. Here’s the https://www.dropbox.com/s/bfcai2ilp0c6t2g/Emotional%20Eating%20Comic_Fitspire.pdf?dl=0 that was...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Dr. Attia Ansari tells me how her patients in Pakistan "just want a pill” instead of working to improving their wellbeing and lifestyle. Here’s the <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/bfcai2ilp0c6t2g/Emotional%20Eating%20Comic_Fitspire.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Emotional Eating link</a> that was mentioned.<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br /><br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2304</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,comparison,diet,disease,dopamine,endorphin,exercise,happy,health,hormones,lifestyle,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,serotonin,social</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Your Power Over Your Attention</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/your-power-over-your-attention--59060640</link><description><![CDATA[Nir Eyal explains his model for becoming “indistractable” instead of feeling overwhelmed by external stimuli. (<a href="http://nirandfar.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">nirandfar.com</a>)<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br /><br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/59060640</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 07:00:03 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/59060640/happy_brain_nir_eyal_power_over_attention_3_15_24.mp3" length="84943851" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Nir Eyal explains his model for becoming “indistractable” instead of feeling overwhelmed by external stimuli. (http://nirandfar.com/)

The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Nir Eyal explains his model for becoming “indistractable” instead of feeling overwhelmed by external stimuli. (<a href="http://nirandfar.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">nirandfar.com</a>)<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br /><br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2124</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,dopamine,endorphin,happy,health,inner,institute,mammal,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,serotonin,the</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Wiring In Your “Wise Advocate"</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/wiring-in-your-wise-advocate--58782010</link><description><![CDATA[The founder of <a href="http://myelinleadership.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Myelin Leadership</a> tells me how he teaches people to find their child circuits and rewire them into “wise advocate” circuits.<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br /><br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58782010</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2024 07:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58782010/happy_brain_robert_paris_2_22_24.mp3" length="91423263" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The founder of http://myelinleadership.com/ tells me how he teaches people to find their child circuits and rewire them into “wise advocate” circuits.

The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The founder of <a href="http://myelinleadership.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Myelin Leadership</a> tells me how he teaches people to find their child circuits and rewire them into “wise advocate” circuits.<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br /><br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2286</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,dopamine,endorphin,happy,health,inner,institute,mammal,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,rewiring,serotonin,the,wisdom</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>A BioFeedback Rewiring Device</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-biofeedback-rewiring-device--58779101</link><description><![CDATA[I’m skeptical of magic bullets, but my guest helps people strap on a device that trains you to change your brainwaves, and it sounds reasonable. (<a href="https://www.neuroflex.tech/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.neuroflex.tech</a>)<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58779101</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2024 07:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58779101/happy_brain_toby_pasman_2_22_24.mp3" length="92086773" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>I’m skeptical of magic bullets, but my guest helps people strap on a device that trains you to change your brainwaves, and it sounds reasonable. (https://www.neuroflex.tech/)

The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[I’m skeptical of magic bullets, but my guest helps people strap on a device that trains you to change your brainwaves, and it sounds reasonable. (<a href="https://www.neuroflex.tech/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.neuroflex.tech</a>)<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2303</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>biofeedback,brain,chemicals,dopamine,endorphin,happy,health,inner,institute,mammal,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,rewiring,serotonin,technology,the</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>War And Mammals</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/war-and-mammals--58459125</link><description><![CDATA[My guest is a Ukrainian-Israeli who just read my book and is putting it into practice right now.<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58459125</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2024 08:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58459125/happy_brain_sophie_batkilin_1_26_24.mp3" length="110207393" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>My guest is a Ukrainian-Israeli who just read my book and is putting it into practice right now.

The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[My guest is a Ukrainian-Israeli who just read my book and is putting it into practice right now.<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2756</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>adrenaline,brain,chemistry,communism,conflict,dopamine,endorphin,fear,history,israel,neural,oppression,oxytocin,pathways,politics,practice,repetition,seratonin,ukraine,war</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Training: How Much Is Too Much?</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/training-how-much-is-too-much--58707186</link><description><![CDATA[My guest was an elite athlete until she trained too much, and her story can help you make good decisions about whatever you’re training for.<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58707186</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2024 08:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58707186/happy_brain_klara_j_2_10_24.mp3" length="130893238" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>My guest was an elite athlete until she trained too much, and her story can help you make good decisions about whatever you’re training for.

The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G....</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[My guest was an elite athlete until she trained too much, and her story can help you make good decisions about whatever you’re training for.<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a>. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/why" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/why</a> <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3273</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,dopamine,endorphin,happy,health,inner,institute,mammal,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,serotonin,the,training</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Urge Surfing</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/urge-surfing--57879808</link><description><![CDATA[The author of <b>No Willpower Required</b> tells me about strategies that worked for him after years of alcohol dependence. (<a href="http://hardenbrook.com/no-willpower-required" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">hardenbrook.com/no-willpower-required</a>)<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: https://innermammalinstitute.org/why <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a> <br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/57879808</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2024 17:25:01 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/57879808/happy_brain_mike_hardenbrook_12_1_23.mp3" length="107592014" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The author of No Willpower Required tells me about strategies that worked for him after years of alcohol dependence. (http://hardenbrook.com/no-willpower-required)

The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways....</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The author of <b>No Willpower Required</b> tells me about strategies that worked for him after years of alcohol dependence. (<a href="http://hardenbrook.com/no-willpower-required" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">hardenbrook.com/no-willpower-required</a>)<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: https://innermammalinstitute.org/why <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a> <br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2690</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>additction,alcohol,brain,change,chemicals,cravings,dopamine,endorphin,habits,health,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,recovery,serotonin,soberliving,sobriety,urges</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to Guide Your Inner Horse</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-to-guide-your-inner-horse--57851374</link><description><![CDATA[A horse expert tells me how she guides the animal, and it’s amazingly relevant to guiding our inner mammal.<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: https://innermammalinstitute.org/why <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a> <br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br /><br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/57851374</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2024 05:05:01 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/57851374/happy_brain_pavla_nygaard_11_29_23.mp3" length="116983557" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>A horse expert tells me how she guides the animal, and it’s amazingly relevant to guiding our inner mammal.

The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[A horse expert tells me how she guides the animal, and it’s amazingly relevant to guiding our inner mammal.<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now.<br />(<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: https://innermammalinstitute.org/why <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at:<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a> <br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br /><br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2925</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,dopamine,endorphin,equine,happy,health,horses,learning,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,serotonin,therapy,training</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/why-you-re-unhappy-biology-vs-politics--58212602</link><description><![CDATA[My new book shows why unhappiness is a natural brain function, and how politics transformed it into a disease. (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CGTNQHGZ) You’ve been told that happiness is the natural default state, but that’s bad biology and it also undermines your quest for happiness in the long run.<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now. (<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.)<br /><br />You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps! <br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them. <br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: https://innermammalinstitute.org/why <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a> If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time.<br /><br />Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br /><br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org.  <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/58212602</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2024 08:00:03 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/58212602/happy_brain_final_loretta_1_5_24.mp3" length="23420259" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>My new book shows why unhappiness is a natural brain function, and how politics transformed it into a disease. (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CGTNQHGZ) You’ve been told that happiness is the natural default state, but that’s bad biology and it also...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[My new book shows why unhappiness is a natural brain function, and how politics transformed it into a disease. (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CGTNQHGZ) You’ve been told that happiness is the natural default state, but that’s bad biology and it also undermines your quest for happiness in the long run.<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now. (<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.)<br /><br />You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps! <br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them. <br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: https://innermammalinstitute.org/why <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a> If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time.<br /><br />Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br /><br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org.  <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>586</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,book,chemicals,disease,dopamine,endorphin,function,habit,happiness,instinct,longterm,neuroplasticity,newbook,oxytocin,pathways,publication,release,serotonin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>A Therapist's View of Mental Fitness</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-therapist-s-view-of-mental-fitness--57275116</link><description><![CDATA[Dr. Susan Hickman tells me why she created the Mental Fitness Institute, as we compare and contrast our darker days.<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now. (<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.)<br /><br />You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps! <br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them. <br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: https://innermammalinstitute.org/why <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a> If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time.<br /><br />Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br /><br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org.  <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/57275116</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Dec 2023 08:00:03 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/57275116/happy_brain_susan_hickman_10_17_23.mp3" length="109851083" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Dr. Susan Hickman tells me why she created the Mental Fitness Institute, as we compare and contrast our darker days.

The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Dr. Susan Hickman tells me why she created the Mental Fitness Institute, as we compare and contrast our darker days.<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now. (<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.)<br /><br />You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps! <br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them. <br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: https://innermammalinstitute.org/why <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a> If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time.<br /><br />Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br /><br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org.  <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2747</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,dopamine,endorphin,happy,health,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,practice,rewiring,serotonin,the</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Children Are More Impressionable Than You Realize</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/children-are-more-impressionable-than-you-realize--57671604</link><description><![CDATA[This episode is just me. I get so many questions about parenting that I wanted to address them. In short, we are tempted to reward bad behavior without consciously intending to. The child pays the price because it wires them to repeat the bad behavior over and over. The next time you are tempted to reward a bad behavior by giving it power, ask yourself whether you're really doing it for yourself, to make you feel like a good person. <br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now. (<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps! <br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them. <br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: https://innermammalinstitute.org/why <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a> If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal. <br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time.<br /><br />Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br /><br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org. <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/57671604</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2023 08:00:03 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/57671604/happy_brain_children_are_more_impressionable_than_you_think_11_16_23.mp3" length="27169353" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>This episode is just me. I get so many questions about parenting that I wanted to address them. In short, we are tempted to reward bad behavior without consciously intending to. The child pays the price because it wires them to repeat the bad behavior...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[This episode is just me. I get so many questions about parenting that I wanted to address them. In short, we are tempted to reward bad behavior without consciously intending to. The child pays the price because it wires them to repeat the bad behavior over and over. The next time you are tempted to reward a bad behavior by giving it power, ask yourself whether you're really doing it for yourself, to make you feel like a good person. <br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now. (<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps! <br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them. <br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: https://innermammalinstitute.org/why <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a> If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal. <br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time.<br /><br />Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br /><br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org. <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>680</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,children,dopamine,endorphin,happy,health,impressions,influence,inner,learning,mammal,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,serotonin,the</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Lonely Entrepreneur</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-lonely-entrepreneur--57275675</link><description><![CDATA[My guest coaches entrepreneurs who dare to leave the cave to find something new, but how does their inner mammal find the courage? joshthomas.net/home1702925582033<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now. (<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps! <br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them. <br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: https://innermammalinstitute.org/why <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a> If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal. <br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time.<br /><br />Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br /><br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org. <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/57275675</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2023 07:00:03 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/57275675/happy_brain_josh_thomas_10_17_23.mp3" length="115380683" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>My guest coaches entrepreneurs who dare to leave the cave to find something new, but how does their inner mammal find the courage? joshthomas.net/home1702925582033

The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways....</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[My guest coaches entrepreneurs who dare to leave the cave to find something new, but how does their inner mammal find the courage? joshthomas.net/home1702925582033<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now. (<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps! <br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them. <br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: https://innermammalinstitute.org/why <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a> If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal. <br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time.<br /><br />Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions. <br /><br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org. <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2885</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,business,chemicals,determination,dopamine,endorphin,entrepreneur,groupthink,health,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,practice,rewiring,self-help,serotonin,start-ups</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Learning a Foreign Language</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/learning-a-foreign-language--57092811</link><description><![CDATA[Many people get frustrated in their efforts to wire in a new language, so I discuss the challenge with Michael Waite, who teaches English in Japan. <br /><br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now. (<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: https://innermammalinstitute.org/why <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a> If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions.  <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org.  <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/57092811</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2023 07:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/57092811/happy_brain_michael_waite_10_5_23.mp3" length="114487295" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Many people get frustrated in their efforts to wire in a new language, so I discuss the challenge with Michael Waite, who teaches English in Japan. 


The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Many people get frustrated in their efforts to wire in a new language, so I discuss the challenge with Michael Waite, who teaches English in Japan. <br /><br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now. (<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: https://innermammalinstitute.org/why <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a> If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions.  <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org.  <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2863</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,culture,dopamine,endorphin,happy,health,languages,learning,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,repetition,serotonin,the</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Friends - On TV and IRL</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/friends-on-tv-and-irl--56977895</link><description><![CDATA[The TV show “Friends” is my guest's mental-health solution, and you will be surprised at how persuasive she is. @myonlyfriends podcast.<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now. (<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: https://innermammalinstitute.org/why <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a> If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions.  <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org.  <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp<br />]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/56977895</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2023 07:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/56977895/happy_brain_brittany_rizzo_9_28_23.mp3" length="120193483" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The TV show “Friends” is my guest's mental-health solution, and you will be surprised at how persuasive she is. @myonlyfriends podcast.

The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G....</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The TV show “Friends” is my guest's mental-health solution, and you will be surprised at how persuasive she is. @myonlyfriends podcast.<br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org. <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now. (<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them.<br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: https://innermammalinstitute.org/why <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a> If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons. <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions.  <br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org.  <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp<br />]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3005</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>bonding,brain,chemicals,comfort,dopamine,endorphin,friends,happy,health,laughing,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,serotonin,television,the,theraoy</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Climbing Out of a Hole</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/climbing-out-of-a-hole--56776144</link><description><![CDATA[Zack Paul went from Navy SEAL to a deep hole of pain, but he climbed out and now teaches others to do that.<br /><br />Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now https://innermammalinstitute.org/course<br /><br />Get 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout. You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Check out video clips from this episode and others here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org. <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/56776144</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2023 07:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/56776144/happy_brain_zack_paul_9_12_23.mp3" length="129586071" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Zack Paul went from Navy SEAL to a deep hole of pain, but he climbed out and now teaches others to do that.

Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now https://innermammalinstitute.org/course

Get 10% off with the code...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Zack Paul went from Navy SEAL to a deep hole of pain, but he climbed out and now teaches others to do that.<br /><br />Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now https://innermammalinstitute.org/course<br /><br />Get 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout. You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Check out video clips from this episode and others here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org. <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3240</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,braininjury,chemicals,dopamine,endorphin,happy,health,inner,institute,mammal,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,opiates,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,recovery,serotonin,survival</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Managing Highs and Lows</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/managing-highs-and-lows--56607450</link><description><![CDATA[Christian Ray Flores became a rock star in the Soviet Union after living in war zones in Third-World countries, and shares the life skills he learned along the way.<br /><br />(<a href="https://www.christianrayflores.com/p/how-is-marxism-eroding-the-west-today" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.christianrayflores.com/p/how-is-marxism-eroding-the-west-today</a>) <br /><br />Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now https://innermammalinstitute.org/course <br /><br />Get 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout. You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Check out video clips from this episode and others here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways. <br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org. <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/56607450</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Sep 2023 07:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/56607450/happy_brain_christian_ray_8_20_23.mp3" length="152650103" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Christian Ray Flores became a rock star in the Soviet Union after living in war zones in Third-World countries, and shares the life skills he learned along the way.

(https://www.christianrayflores.com/p/how-is-marxism-eroding-the-west-today) 

Check...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Christian Ray Flores became a rock star in the Soviet Union after living in war zones in Third-World countries, and shares the life skills he learned along the way.<br /><br />(<a href="https://www.christianrayflores.com/p/how-is-marxism-eroding-the-west-today" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.christianrayflores.com/p/how-is-marxism-eroding-the-west-today</a>) <br /><br />Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now https://innermammalinstitute.org/course <br /><br />Get 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout. You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Check out video clips from this episode and others here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways. <br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org. <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3817</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,dopamine,endorphin,happy,health,inner,institute,mammal,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,serotonin,the</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>So Many Different Wellness Strategies!</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/so-many-different-wellness-strategies--54359544</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Bianca Brasil treats patients with a huge range of Eastern and Western methods, and even uses them on herself! (<a href="http://institutobiancabrasil.com.br/home" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">institutobiancabrasil.com.br/home</a>)</b><br /><br />Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now https://innermammalinstitute.org/course<br /><br />Get 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout. You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Check out video clips from this episode and others here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org. <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/54359544</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2023 07:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/54359544/happy_brain_bianca_brasil_6_13_23.mp3" length="118566577" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Bianca Brasil treats patients with a huge range of Eastern and Western methods, and even uses them on herself! (http://institutobiancabrasil.com.br/home)

Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<b>Bianca Brasil treats patients with a huge range of Eastern and Western methods, and even uses them on herself! (<a href="http://institutobiancabrasil.com.br/home" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">institutobiancabrasil.com.br/home</a>)</b><br /><br />Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now https://innermammalinstitute.org/course<br /><br />Get 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout. You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Check out video clips from this episode and others here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org. <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2965</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,dopamine,endorphin,happiness,happy,health,mental,movement,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,positivity,serotonin,the,wellness</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>A  Homeless Addict’s Success Story</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-homeless-addict-s-success-story--56337426</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Jared Klickstein tells me about growing up with drug-addicted parents, and about the recovery program that succeeded where so many failed.</b><br /><br />Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now https://innermammalinstitute.org/course<br /><br />Get 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout. You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Check out video clips from this episode and others here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways. <br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org <br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/56337426</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2023 07:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/56337426/happy_brain_jared_klickstein_8_1_23.mp3" length="126316585" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Jared Klickstein tells me about growing up with drug-addicted parents, and about the recovery program that succeeded where so many failed.

Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now https://innermammalinstitute.org/course...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<b>Jared Klickstein tells me about growing up with drug-addicted parents, and about the recovery program that succeeded where so many failed.</b><br /><br />Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now https://innermammalinstitute.org/course<br /><br />Get 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout. You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Check out video clips from this episode and others here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways. <br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org <br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3158</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>addiction,brain,chemicals,dopamine,endorphin,happy,health,homeless,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,recovery,serotonin,the</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Rewiring Negativity in Kids</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/rewiring-negativity-in-kids--54826622</link><description><![CDATA[Troubled classrooms are transformed by my guest Scott Ervin as he rewards positive behaviors &amp; NEVER rewards negative behaviors. (<a href="http://behavioralleadership.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">behavioralleadership.com</a>) <br /><br />You can now enroll in my new video course, which helps you rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps! <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a>. Get 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.<br /><br />Check out video clips from this episode and others here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a> <br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-happy-brain/id1377502232?i=1000558350153<br /><br />Spotify Podcasts: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1wuRZCKcRWsg0sIPSvcrA6?si=jEJRVF72TSKNaE5b5pk1ig Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a><br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org. <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/54826622</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Jul 2023 07:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/54826622/happy_brain_scott_ervin_6_15_23.mp3" length="157878772" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Troubled classrooms are transformed by my guest Scott Ervin as he rewards positive behaviors &amp;amp; NEVER rewards negative behaviors. (http://behavioralleadership.com/) 

You can now enroll in my new video course, which helps you rewire your happy...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Troubled classrooms are transformed by my guest Scott Ervin as he rewards positive behaviors &amp; NEVER rewards negative behaviors. (<a href="http://behavioralleadership.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">behavioralleadership.com</a>) <br /><br />You can now enroll in my new video course, which helps you rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps! <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a>. Get 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.<br /><br />Check out video clips from this episode and others here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a> <br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-happy-brain/id1377502232?i=1000558350153<br /><br />Spotify Podcasts: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1wuRZCKcRWsg0sIPSvcrA6?si=jEJRVF72TSKNaE5b5pk1ig Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a><br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org. <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3947</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,dopamine,endorphin,happy,health,inner,institute,mammal,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,serotonin,the</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Music and the Brain</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/music-and-the-brain--54140945</link><description><![CDATA[Kalos Music School founders Eugenia Mendez and Saul Vera tell me how they teach music to children, and how this helps us all find our power over our brain. (<a href="http://kalosmusicandart.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">kalosmusicandart.com</a><br /><br />Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now https://innermammalinstitute.org/course<br /><br />Get 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout. You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Check out video clips from this episode and others here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org. <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/54140945</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Jul 2023 07:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/54140945/happy_brain_eugenia_and_saul_music_and_the_brain_6_8_24.mp3" length="121320928" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Kalos Music School founders Eugenia Mendez and Saul Vera tell me how they teach music to children, and how this helps us all find our power over our brain. (http://kalosmusicandart.com/

Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Kalos Music School founders Eugenia Mendez and Saul Vera tell me how they teach music to children, and how this helps us all find our power over our brain. (<a href="http://kalosmusicandart.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">kalosmusicandart.com</a><br /><br />Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now https://innermammalinstitute.org/course<br /><br />Get 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout. You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Check out video clips from this episode and others here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org. <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3033</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,dopamine,endorphin,happy,health,inner,institute,learning,mammal,mental,music,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,serotonin,the,time</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Spirituality: Disagreeing Respectfully</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/spirituality-disagreeing-respectfully--53935763</link><description><![CDATA[I discuss the book <b>Questioning Spirituality</b> with the author, Eldon Taylor, finding common ground despite core differences. (<a href="https://amzn.to/3mXdzEy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://amzn.to/3mXdzEy</a>)<br /><br />Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now https://innermammalinstitute.org/course<br /><br />Get 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout. You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Check out video clips from this episode and others here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org. <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/53935763</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2023 07:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/53935763/happy_brain_eldon_taylor_5_19_23.mp3" length="143137352" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>I discuss the book Questioning Spirituality with the author, Eldon Taylor, finding common ground despite core differences. (https://amzn.to/3mXdzEy)

Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[I discuss the book <b>Questioning Spirituality</b> with the author, Eldon Taylor, finding common ground despite core differences. (<a href="https://amzn.to/3mXdzEy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://amzn.to/3mXdzEy</a>)<br /><br />Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now https://innermammalinstitute.org/course<br /><br />Get 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout. You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Check out video clips from this episode and others here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org. <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3579</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>affirmations,atheism,brain,chemicals,dopamine,endorphin,happy,health,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,religion,scientism,serotonin,spirituality,subliminals,the</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Thinking About Eating</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/thinking-about-eating--53741415</link><description><![CDATA[I think about eating a lot, so I talk to a health and mindset coach who helps people think differently about food. (<a href="https://jeniferparedes.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://jeniferparedes.com</a>)<br /><br />Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now https://innermammalinstitute.org/course<br /><br />Get 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout. You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Check out video clips from this episode and others here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org. <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/53741415</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2023 07:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/53741415/happy_brain_jennifer_paredes_eating_w_cross_promo_6_8_23.mp3" length="113067279" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>I think about eating a lot, so I talk to a health and mindset coach who helps people think differently about food. (https://jeniferparedes.com/)

Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[I think about eating a lot, so I talk to a health and mindset coach who helps people think differently about food. (<a href="https://jeniferparedes.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://jeniferparedes.com</a>)<br /><br />Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now https://innermammalinstitute.org/course<br /><br />Get 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout. You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Check out video clips from this episode and others here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org. <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2827</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,digestion,dopamine,eating,endorphin,fiber,happy,health,healthy,hormones,intuition,mammal,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,serotonin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Change Catalyst</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/change-catalyst--53647664</link><description><![CDATA[Lisa Cunningham DeLauney shares my interest in travel and animals and management, so I was eager to hear how she helps people deal with change.<br /><br />Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now https://innermammalinstitute.org/course <br /><br />Get 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout. You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Check out video clips from this episode and others here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org.  <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/53647664</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jun 2023 07:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/53647664/happy_brain_lisa_cunningham_4_25_23.mp3" length="74420683" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Lisa Cunningham DeLauney shares my interest in travel and animals and management, so I was eager to hear how she helps people deal with change.

Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Lisa Cunningham DeLauney shares my interest in travel and animals and management, so I was eager to hear how she helps people deal with change.<br /><br />Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now https://innermammalinstitute.org/course <br /><br />Get 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout. You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Check out video clips from this episode and others here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org.  <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1861</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,dopamine,employment,endorphin,environment,happy,health,inner,institute,mammal,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,serotonin,the,work</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Boost Your Mood 10th Anniversary</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/boost-your-mood-10th-anniversary--53067657</link><description><![CDATA[Ten years ago, I wrote a blog post on boosting your happy chemicals, and I re-posted it last year. My guest Lisa Williams Edgar wrote to tell me that she read it ten years ago and has been using it with her clients since then. I was excited to hear more about it so I invited her onto the show. (<a href="https://www.newhorizontraining.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.newhorizontraining.co.uk</a>)<br /><br />Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now https://innermammalinstitute.org/course <br /><br />Get 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout. You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Check out video clips from this episode and others here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org. <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/53067657</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2023 07:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/53067657/happy_brain_lisa_williams_edgar_3_1_23.mp3" length="93085696" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Ten years ago, I wrote a blog post on boosting your happy chemicals, and I re-posted it last year. My guest Lisa Williams Edgar wrote to tell me that she read it ten years ago and has been using it with her clients since then. I was excited to hear...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Ten years ago, I wrote a blog post on boosting your happy chemicals, and I re-posted it last year. My guest Lisa Williams Edgar wrote to tell me that she read it ten years ago and has been using it with her clients since then. I was excited to hear more about it so I invited her onto the show. (<a href="https://www.newhorizontraining.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.newhorizontraining.co.uk</a>)<br /><br />Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now https://innermammalinstitute.org/course <br /><br />Get 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout. You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Check out video clips from this episode and others here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org. <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2328</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>boost,brain,chemicals,dopamine,endorphin,happy,health,inner,institute,mammal,mental,mood,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,serotonin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Change Your Branches by Nourishing Your Roots</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/change-your-branches-by-nourishing-your-roots--52815059</link><description><![CDATA[Andrea Nakayama trains functional nutritional counselors, and teaches me about functional medicine, training, and to tell you the truth, about poop. <a href="https://www.fxnutrition.com/about-andrea/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.fxnutrition.com/about-andrea/</a><br /><br />Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now https://innermammalinstitute.org/course<br /><br />Get 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout. You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Check out video clips from this episode and others here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org. <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/52815059</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2023 07:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/52815059/happy_brain_andrea_nakayama_2_22_23.mp3" length="91601940" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Andrea Nakayama trains functional nutritional counselors, and teaches me about functional medicine, training, and to tell you the truth, about poop. https://www.fxnutrition.com/about-andrea/

Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Andrea Nakayama trains functional nutritional counselors, and teaches me about functional medicine, training, and to tell you the truth, about poop. <a href="https://www.fxnutrition.com/about-andrea/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.fxnutrition.com/about-andrea/</a><br /><br />Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now https://innermammalinstitute.org/course<br /><br />Get 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout. You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />Check out video clips from this episode and others here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a><br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org. <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2290</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,diet,digestion,dopamine,endorphin,happy,health,inner,magnesium,mammal,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,reward,serotonin,sleep</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Self-Confidence: Can It Be Taught?</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/self-confidence-can-it-be-taught--51695396</link><description><![CDATA[Paul Levitin tells me how he teaches people to feel their own strength— though they don't know it's serotonin. (instagram.com/paullevitin)<br /><br />Link to my new course! https://innermammalinstitute.org/course <br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/51695396</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2023 07:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/51695396/happy_brain_paul_levitin_10_26_22.mp3" length="104083246" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Paul Levitin tells me how he teaches people to feel their own strength— though they don't know it's serotonin. (instagram.com/paullevitin)

Link to my new course! https://innermammalinstitute.org/course 

If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Paul Levitin tells me how he teaches people to feel their own strength— though they don't know it's serotonin. (instagram.com/paullevitin)<br /><br />Link to my new course! https://innermammalinstitute.org/course <br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2602</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,dopamine,endorphin,happy,health,inner,institute,mammal,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,serotonin,the</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Mean Mammals</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/mean-mammals--52519292</link><description><![CDATA[<b>Mean Mammals</b> Realtor Matt O-Neill describes people who manipulate, intimidate, and try to get something for free, and how the inner mammal approach helps him manage it. (<a href="https://www.mattoneillrealestate.com/agents/matt-oneill/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.mattoneillrealestate.com/agents/matt-oneill/</a>)<br /><br />Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now https://innermammalinstitute.org/course<br />Get 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout. You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/52519292</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2023 07:00:01 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/52519292/happy_brain_matt_oneill_1_23_23.mp3" length="111693238" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Mean Mammals Realtor Matt O-Neill describes people who manipulate, intimidate, and try to get something for free, and how the inner mammal approach helps him manage it. (https://www.mattoneillrealestate.com/agents/matt-oneill/)

Check out my new video...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[<b>Mean Mammals</b> Realtor Matt O-Neill describes people who manipulate, intimidate, and try to get something for free, and how the inner mammal approach helps him manage it. (<a href="https://www.mattoneillrealestate.com/agents/matt-oneill/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.mattoneillrealestate.com/agents/matt-oneill/</a>)<br /><br />Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now https://innermammalinstitute.org/course<br />Get 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout. You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2793</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,dopamine,endorphin,happy,health,homeowners,inner,mammal,mental,mortgages,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,realtor,realty,serotonin,stress</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Rapid Transformation Therapy</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/rapid-transformation-therapy--52123755</link><description><![CDATA[RTT practitioner Valentina Michetti joins me for a deep discussion of what it takes to rewire, and asks me great questions about enabling, myelin, relaxation, abstract thought, and using bad words. (facebook.com/BetterBelief)<br /><br />Apple Podcasts: <br />https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-happy-brain/id1377502232?i=1000558350153<br /><br />Spotify Podcasts: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1wuRZCKcRWsg0sIPSvcrA6?si=jEJRVF72TSKNaE5b5pk1ig<br /><br />You can now enroll in my new course! https://innermammalinstitute.org/course <br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/52123755</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 Mar 2023 07:05:01 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/52123755/happy_brain_valentina_michetti_12_7_22.mp3" length="147066168" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>RTT practitioner Valentina Michetti joins me for a deep discussion of what it takes to rewire, and asks me great questions about enabling, myelin, relaxation, abstract thought, and using bad words. (facebook.com/BetterBelief)

Apple Podcasts:...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[RTT practitioner Valentina Michetti joins me for a deep discussion of what it takes to rewire, and asks me great questions about enabling, myelin, relaxation, abstract thought, and using bad words. (facebook.com/BetterBelief)<br /><br />Apple Podcasts: <br />https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-happy-brain/id1377502232?i=1000558350153<br /><br />Spotify Podcasts: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1wuRZCKcRWsg0sIPSvcrA6?si=jEJRVF72TSKNaE5b5pk1ig<br /><br />You can now enroll in my new course! https://innermammalinstitute.org/course <br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3677</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,dopamine,endorphin,happy,health,inner,institute,mammal,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,rapidtransformation,rtt,serotonin,the,therapy</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Beyond Burnout</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/beyond-burnout--51187833</link><description><![CDATA[Sharon Grossman, "The Burnout Doc," talks to me about preventing burnout and designing solutions that fit your individual needs. (drsharongrossman.com)<br /><br />Link to my new course! <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a><br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp</a>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/51187833</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2023 08:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/51187833/happy_brain_sharon_grossman_9_8_22.mp3" length="110740291" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Sharon Grossman, "The Burnout Doc," talks to me about preventing burnout and designing solutions that fit your individual needs. (drsharongrossman.com)&#13;
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Link to my new course! https://innermammalinstitute.org/course&#13;
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If you like The Happy Brain...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Sharon Grossman, "The Burnout Doc," talks to me about preventing burnout and designing solutions that fit your individual needs. (drsharongrossman.com)<br /><br />Link to my new course! <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a><br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp</a>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2769</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,burnout,chemicals,dopamine,endorphin,happy,health,inner,institute,mammal,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,serotonin,stress,the,work</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Divorce Lawyer’s Advice</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/divorce-lawyer-s-advice--51917954</link><description><![CDATA[Toni Nieuwhof wrote “Before You Split” after years of watching the toll that divorce takes. (toninieuwhof.com)<br /><br />Link to my new course! <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> <br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp</a>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/51917954</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2023 08:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/51917954/happy_brain_toni_niewhof_11_16_22.mp3" length="96236063" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Toni Nieuwhof wrote “Before You Split” after years of watching the toll that divorce takes. (toninieuwhof.com)&#13;
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If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Toni Nieuwhof wrote “Before You Split” after years of watching the toll that divorce takes. (toninieuwhof.com)<br /><br />Link to my new course! <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> <br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp</a>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2406</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,divorce,dopamine,endorphin,happy,health,inner,institute,mammal,marriage,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,reconciliation,serotonin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Release Constrictions: Live Lesson</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/release-constrictions-live-lesson--51917094</link><description><![CDATA[A method for releasing physical and emotional pain is taught to me (and you!) by Roberta Tachi, a senior teacher of The Realization Process. (theselfawakens.com)<br /><br />Link to my new course! https://innermammalinstitute.org/course <br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/51917094</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2023 08:00:01 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/51917094/happy_brain_roberta_tachi_11_16_22.mp3" length="104141761" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>A method for releasing physical and emotional pain is taught to me (and you!) by Roberta Tachi, a senior teacher of The Realization Process. (theselfawakens.com)

Link to my new course! https://innermammalinstitute.org/course 

If you like The Happy...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[A method for releasing physical and emotional pain is taught to me (and you!) by Roberta Tachi, a senior teacher of The Realization Process. (theselfawakens.com)<br /><br />Link to my new course! https://innermammalinstitute.org/course <br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2604</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,constriction,dopamine,endorphin,happy,health,inner,institute,kundalini,mammal,meditation,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,release,serotonin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Sex Chemicals with John Gray</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-sex-chemicals-with-john-gray--52535463</link><description><![CDATA[The author of the Mars Venus books gives me his view of the sex hormones and tells me how a dog obedience class improved his marriage. (<a href="http://marsvenus.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">marsvenus.com</a>)<br /><br />Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now https://innermammalinstitute.org/course <br />Get 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout. You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps! <br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal. <br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways. <br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The author of the Mars Venus books gives me his view of the sex hormones and tells me how a dog obedience class improved his marriage. (<a href="http://marsvenus.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">marsvenus.com</a>)<br /><br />Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now https://innermammalinstitute.org/course <br />Get 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout. You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps! <br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal. <br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways. <br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3710</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,dopamine,endorphin,happy,health,inner,institute,mammal,marriage,mars,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,relationships,serotonin,venus</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Problem with Academic Psychology</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-problem-with-academic-psychology--52204530</link><description><![CDATA[This episode is just me because I want to explain my skepticism about the research we get from academic psychology. Get the full text here: https://innermammalinstitute.org/theproblem/ or watch it on YouTube here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emsI9pxYWUQ" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emsI9pxYWUQ</a><br /><br />Check out my new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now https://innermammalinstitute.org/course<br />Get 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout. You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps!<br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.o...</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.o...</a>.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.o...</a>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/52204530</guid><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2023 08:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/52204530/happy_brain_problem_with_academic_psychology_updated.mp3" length="76568994" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>This episode is just me because I want to explain my skepticism about the research we get from academic psychology. 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My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.o...</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.o...</a>.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.o...</a>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1915</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>academia,brain,chemicals,dopamine,endorphin,happy,health,inner,institute,mammal,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,science,selfhelp,serotonin,the</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Your Executive Brain</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/your-executive-brain--51694176</link><description><![CDATA[Dr. Eugene Choi left a career as a pharmacist to teach people how to manage their higher brain, but how does that fit with my work on the lower brain?  (destinyhacks.com)<br /><br />Link to my new course! <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> <br /><br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp</a>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/51694176</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2022 08:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/51694176/happy_brain_eugene_choi_10_26_22.mp3" length="93027181" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Dr. Eugene Choi left a career as a pharmacist to teach people how to manage their higher brain, but how does that fit with my work on the lower brain?  (destinyhacks.com)&#13;
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If you...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Dr. Eugene Choi left a career as a pharmacist to teach people how to manage their higher brain, but how does that fit with my work on the lower brain?  (destinyhacks.com)<br /><br />Link to my new course! <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> <br /><br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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(achadinha.com)<br /><br />You can now enroll in my new course! https://innermammalinstitute.org/course<br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/51360469</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2022 08:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/51360469/happy_brain_donna_pacheco_9_23_22.mp3" length="93323932" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>My guest manages goats, cows, a cheese factory, and a farm tour, so she’s full of insight on mammalian impulses. (achadinha.com)

You can now enroll in my new course! https://innermammalinstitute.org/course

If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[My guest manages goats, cows, a cheese factory, and a farm tour, so she’s full of insight on mammalian impulses. (achadinha.com)<br /><br />You can now enroll in my new course! https://innermammalinstitute.org/course<br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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(<a href="https://RNextdoor.com" rel="noopener">https://RNextdoor.com</a>)<br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. 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The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[My guest tells us how she brings the inner mammal method into her daily work as a Registered Nurse. (<a href="https://RNextdoor.com" rel="noopener">https://RNextdoor.com</a>)<br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp</a>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50803503</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2022 07:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/50803503/happy_brain_vera_tarman_8_3_22.mp3" length="154609287" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Dr. Vera Tarman tells me about the changes that have taken place in her 20 years of treating addiction.&#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Dr. Vera Tarman tells me about the changes that have taken place in her 20 years of treating addiction.<br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp</a>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50706509</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2022 07:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/50706509/happy_brain_adam_lyons_7_25_22.mp3" length="136717499" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Adam Lyons has applied the inner mammal method to his many businesses, from dating coach to supply chain consultant, with great results!&#13;
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If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Adam Lyons has applied the inner mammal method to his many businesses, from dating coach to supply chain consultant, with great results!<br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp</a>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50680931</guid><pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2022 08:00:01 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/50680931/happy_brain_janet_gourand_7_22_22.mp3" length="106876259" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Janet Gourand helps people stimulate their dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin after they give up alcohol (TribeSober.com).&#13;
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If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal....</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Janet Gourand helps people stimulate their dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin after they give up alcohol (TribeSober.com).<br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp</a>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50311411</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2022 07:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/50311411/happy_brain_kartina_6_23_22.mp3" length="82980487" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Kartini Ariffin is sharing my work with her clients in Malaysia and brought me a long list of great questions about moving toward goals.&#13;
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f you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Kartini Ariffin is sharing my work with her clients in Malaysia and brought me a long list of great questions about moving toward goals.<br /><br />f you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp</a>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50498996</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2022 07:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/50498996/happy_brain_lucy_mullins_7_7_22.mp3" length="92729385" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Lucy Mullins, founder of #RidetheWave Professional Coaching School, talks to me about learning to jump the waves that crash on us throughout life. https://www.ridethewave.co.uk/&#13;
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If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Lucy Mullins, founder of #RidetheWave Professional Coaching School, talks to me about learning to jump the waves that crash on us throughout life. <a href="https://www.ridethewave.co.uk/" rel="noopener">https://www.ridethewave.co.uk/</a><br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp</a>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50143164</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2022 07:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/50143164/happy_brain_priscille_6_9_22.mp3" length="109314006" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>You don’t appreciate the supply chain 'til it’s gone, and logistics expert Priscille Livenais tells me about the stress and the career opportunity. 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If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[You don’t appreciate the supply chain 'til it’s gone, and logistics expert Priscille Livenais tells me about the stress and the career opportunity. (priscillelivenais.com)<br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp</a>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50109534</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2022 07:00:01 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/50109534/happy_brain_kamran_questions_6_7_22.mp3" length="186471360" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>My guest has read all of my books and asks great questions so we kept going until I answered them all, especially about stimulating all the happy chemicals at the same time. &#13;
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If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[My guest has read all of my books and asks great questions so we kept going until I answered them all, especially about stimulating all the happy chemicals at the same time. <br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp</a>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>4662</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>academia,brain,chemicals,disease,dopamine,endorphin,happy,health,mental,model,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,serotonin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How to Gamify Your Life</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-to-gamify-your-life--50039590</link><description><![CDATA[Renowned gamification expert Yu-kai Chou tells me how anyone can gamify their life to get desired behaviors more easily. (<a href="https://octalysisgroup.com" rel="noopener">https://octalysisgroup.com</a>)<br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp</a>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/50039590</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2022 07:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/50039590/happy_brain_yu_kai_6_2_22.mp3" length="127324912" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Renowned gamification expert Yu-kai Chou tells me how anyone can gamify their life to get desired behaviors more easily. (https://octalysisgroup.com)&#13;
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If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Renowned gamification expert Yu-kai Chou tells me how anyone can gamify their life to get desired behaviors more easily. (<a href="https://octalysisgroup.com" rel="noopener">https://octalysisgroup.com</a>)<br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp</a>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3184</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,dopamine,endorphin,gamers,gamification,gaming,goals,happy,health,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,serotonin,steps,the,triggers</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Entrepreneur Stress</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/entrepreneur-stress--49955634</link><description><![CDATA[If you’re tempted to quit your job and go solo, here’s a realistic talk with performance coach, Lydia Kathryn. (lydiakathryn.com)<br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp</a>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/49955634</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2022 07:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/49955634/happy_brain_lydia_kathryn_5_26_22.mp3" length="101170071" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>If you’re tempted to quit your job and go solo, here’s a realistic talk with performance coach, Lydia Kathryn. (lydiakathryn.com)&#13;
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If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal....</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[If you’re tempted to quit your job and go solo, here’s a realistic talk with performance coach, Lydia Kathryn. (lydiakathryn.com)<br /><br />If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp</a>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2530</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,career,chemicals,coaching,dopamine,endorphin,freelance,happy,jobs,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,serotonin,stayathome,the,work</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Deep Work vs. Busy Work</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/deep-work-vs-busy-work--49836400</link><description><![CDATA[Tova Safra tells me about her new app that gives you a virtual co-working space on demand:  <a href="https://groove.io" rel="noopener">https://groove.io</a><br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp</a>]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/49836400</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2022 07:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/49836400/happy_brain_tova_5_17_22.mp3" length="99921418" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Tova Safra tells me about her new app that gives you a virtual co-working space on demand:  https://groove.io&#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Tova Safra tells me about her new app that gives you a virtual co-working space on demand:  <a href="https://groove.io" rel="noopener">https://groove.io</a><br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org</a>.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at <a href="https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp" rel="noopener">https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp</a>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2498</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,deephealing,dopamine,endorphin,happy,innerhealing,monkeymind,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,podcast,serotonin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>A PTSD Success Story</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-ptsd-success-story--49760678</link><description><![CDATA[Medric Cousineau explains the cascade of problems that began with a heroic rescue, and the cascade of solutions that began with a service dog. (<a href="https://pawsfurthought.ca" rel="noopener">https://pawsfurthought.ca</a>)<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/49760678</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2022 07:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/49760678/happy_brain_medric_cousineae_5_11_22.mp3" length="115744308" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Medric Cousineau explains the cascade of problems that began with a heroic rescue, and the cascade of solutions that began with a service dog. (https://pawsfurthought.ca)&#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Medric Cousineau explains the cascade of problems that began with a heroic rescue, and the cascade of solutions that began with a service dog. (<a href="https://pawsfurthought.ca" rel="noopener">https://pawsfurthought.ca</a>)<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2894</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>animal,brain,chemicals,cortisol,disorder,dopamine,endorphin,military,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,pet,post,ptsd,serotonin,servicedogs,stress,therapy,traumatic</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Negotiating with Family</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/negotiating-with-family--49777064</link><description><![CDATA[Chris Wilson teaches conflict resolution in prisons, colleges, and corporations, so I ask her about conflict within families. (<a href="https://iheartresolution.com" rel="noopener">https://iheartresolution.com</a>)<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/49777064</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2022 07:00:01 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/49777064/happy_brain_chris_wilson_5_11_22.mp3" length="111215720" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Chris Wilson teaches conflict resolution in prisons, colleges, and corporations, so I ask her about conflict within families. (https://iheartresolution.com)&#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Chris Wilson teaches conflict resolution in prisons, colleges, and corporations, so I ask her about conflict within families. (<a href="https://iheartresolution.com" rel="noopener">https://iheartresolution.com</a>)<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2781</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,dopamine,endorphin,expectations,family,inner,mammal,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,patterns,practice,serotonin,thought</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Panic Attacks</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/panic-attacks--49596104</link><description><![CDATA[Maite Crespo tells me how she stopped her panic attacks by creating a “pause for serenity” method, which she teaches now at <a href="https://todoyoga.com" rel="noopener">https://todoyoga.com</a><br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/49596104</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2022 07:00:01 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/49596104/happy_brain_maite_crispo_4_29_22.mp3" length="131010267" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Maite Crespo tells me how she stopped her panic attacks by creating a “pause for serenity” method, which she teaches now at https://todoyoga.com&#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Maite Crespo tells me how she stopped her panic attacks by creating a “pause for serenity” method, which she teaches now at <a href="https://todoyoga.com" rel="noopener">https://todoyoga.com</a><br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/49413120</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2022 07:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/49413120/happy_brain_julian_jaynes_4_12_22.mp3" length="119478773" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>I discuss the Origins of Consciousness theory of Julian Jaynes with the founder of the JJ Society, Marcel Kuijsten. (JulianJaynes.org)&#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[I discuss the Origins of Consciousness theory of Julian Jaynes with the founder of the JJ Society, Marcel Kuijsten. (JulianJaynes.org)<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[I discuss the HR world with Daniel Vent, a professional who shares my interest in applying inner mammal awareness to the HR function. <br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3646</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,disciplined,dopamine,endorphin,habits,inner,institute,mammal,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,practice,reciprocity,repetition,science,serotonin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Body/Mind Connection</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/body-mind-connection--49070323</link><description><![CDATA[Todd Nyholm, somatic therapist, tells me about his system for using your body and mind together to change unwanted patterns. (nytality.com)<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/49070323</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2022 07:00:03 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/49070323/happy_brain_todd_nyholm_3_15_22.mp3" length="77690169" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Todd Nyholm, somatic therapist, tells me about his system for using your body and mind together to change unwanted patterns. (nytality.com)&#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Todd Nyholm, somatic therapist, tells me about his system for using your body and mind together to change unwanted patterns. (nytality.com)<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[My guest is the Alcohol Minimalist, who trained her brain to lose interest in alcohol. (<a href="https://mollywatts.com" rel="noopener">https://mollywatts.com</a>)<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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(<a href="https://www.ajourneytoyourself.com" rel="noopener">https://www.ajourneytoyourself.com</a>)<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/48899134</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2022 08:00:03 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/48899134/happy_brain_agata_2_28_22.mp3" length="90353287" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>My guest, Agata Dzierzawa, is the translator of my book "I, Mammal" into Polish, and she wants to talk to me about spirituality. (https://www.ajourneytoyourself.com)&#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[My guest, Agata Dzierzawa, is the translator of my book "I, Mammal" into Polish, and she wants to talk to me about spirituality. (<a href="https://www.ajourneytoyourself.com" rel="noopener">https://www.ajourneytoyourself.com</a>)<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2259</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>adulting,anxiety,balance,brain,chemicals,childhood,dopamine,endorphin,health,insecurity,loops,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,patterns,practice,programming,science,serotonin,spirituality,thought</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Quest for Happy Habits</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-quest-for-happy-habits--48772851</link><description><![CDATA[I speak with Irish broadcaster Matthieu Norry about his research on happy habits, to see which conclusions we share.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[I speak with Irish broadcaster Matthieu Norry about his research on happy habits, to see which conclusions we share.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Diris has read 4 of my books and asks me great questions about his efforts to get ahead and to help friends in need. <br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[My guest, Paul Taylor, learned stress resistance from high-pressure military experience plus formal study of neuroscience, but I disagree with him on some things. (mindbodybrain.com.au)<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3273</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,children,dopamine,endorphin,health,mental,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,resilience,serotonin,strength</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Keeping Up Appearances</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/keeping-up-appearances--46128655</link><description><![CDATA[An MD reader asks me big existential questions: Why do we care about social approval? How can a person get unstuck and live authentically?<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[An MD reader asks me big existential questions: Why do we care about social approval? How can a person get unstuck and live authentically?<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[My guest, Victoria Puzach, helps digital nomads be more productive…but are nomads happy? worktravelsummit.com <br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[I learn about an app that holds your personal health data (Andaman7) from its creator, Vincent Keunan, whose personal experience with health records was sad but illuminating. <br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Mediator and dispute resolution expert Arabella Tresilian explains her method of cooling down entrenched conflicts. (arabellatresilian.com)<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[I learn about the nervous system from fire-walking chiropractor, Dr. Josh Handt.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2185</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,breuning,chemicals,chiropractor,dopamine,endorphin,inner,institude,mammal,nervous,oxytocin,serotonin,system</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Money Circuits in Your Brain</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-money-circuits-in-your-brain--45891376</link><description><![CDATA[Early experience shapes your relationship with money in surprising ways, explains “Anatomy of Money” founder Deborah Fryer. (DeborahFryer.com)<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin....</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Early experience shapes your relationship with money in surprising ways, explains “Anatomy of Money” founder Deborah Fryer. (DeborahFryer.com)<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can turn on your happy chemicals in healthy new ways.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning PhD, is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org</a><br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand the brain we’ve inherited from earlier mammals. Your mammal brain controls the chemicals that make you feel good: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. These chemicals are released for reasons that don’t make sense to our verbal human brain. When you know what these chemicals do in animals, your ups and downs make sense!<br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Each happy chemical has a special job. When it turns on, it paves neural pathways that turn it on more easily in the future. That’s why we repeat behaviors that we’d rather do without. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself to stimulate them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. It’s like learning a foreign language: it takes a lot of repetition. Yet people do it every day. You can be one of them! You can design a new path to your happy chemicals and repeat it until it’s strong enough to turn on easily. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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Listen in and subscribe so you can blaze new trails to your happy chemicals too.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels."<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand your inner mammal. Good feelings come from brain chemicals we've inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s many books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45875703</guid><pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2021 07:00:11 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/45875703/happy_brain_janie_peters_07_28_21.mp3" length="117846642" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Video confidence coach Janie Peters chats with me about overcoming fear of speaking live on video.&#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Video confidence coach Janie Peters chats with me about overcoming fear of speaking live on video.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can blaze new trails to your happy chemicals too.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels."<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand your inner mammal. Good feelings come from brain chemicals we've inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s many books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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Listen in and subscribe so you can blaze new trails to your happy chemicals too.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels."<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand your inner mammal. Good feelings come from brain chemicals we've inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s many books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45727504</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2021 07:00:13 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/45727504/happy_brain_kristen_helmstetter_07_16_21.mp3" length="76684977" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Great questions on cortisol, adrenaline, sex, bonding and 14 Days to Sustainable Happiness, with reader Kristen Helmstetter.&#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Great questions on cortisol, adrenaline, sex, bonding and 14 Days to Sustainable Happiness, with reader Kristen Helmstetter.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can blaze new trails to your happy chemicals too.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels."<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand your inner mammal. Good feelings come from brain chemicals we've inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s many books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can blaze new trails to your happy chemicals too.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels."<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand your inner mammal. Good feelings come from brain chemicals we've inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s many books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45726480</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2021 07:00:08 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/45726480/happy_brain_juleus_ghunta_07_16_21.mp3" length="156452487" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Juleus Ghunta wrote a children’s book to help build literacy in children with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) like his own (Rohan Bullkin and the Shadows).&#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Juleus Ghunta wrote a children’s book to help build literacy in children with adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) like his own (Rohan Bullkin and the Shadows).<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can blaze new trails to your happy chemicals too.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels."<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand your inner mammal. Good feelings come from brain chemicals we've inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s many books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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Listen in and subscribe so you can blaze new trails to your happy chemicals too.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels."<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand your inner mammal. Good feelings come from brain chemicals we've inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. 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Dr. Breuning’s many books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45892154</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2021 07:00:13 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/45892154/happy_brain_mark_queppet_07_29_21.mp3" length="117877989" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>These addictions are status problems in the opinion of my guest, masculinity coach Mark Queppet.&#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[These addictions are status problems in the opinion of my guest, masculinity coach Mark Queppet.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can blaze new trails to your happy chemicals too.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels."<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand your inner mammal. Good feelings come from brain chemicals we've inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s many books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2947</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>addiction,brain,chemicals,dopamine,endorphin,gaming,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,porn,serotonin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Social Awkwardness</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/social-awkwardness--45683221</link><description><![CDATA[Is it new? Is it you? I discuss social awkwardness with “Focus on the Forty” founder, Anthony Poponi. (The 40% of happiness he believes we control.)<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can blaze new trails to your happy chemicals too.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels."<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand your inner mammal. Good feelings come from brain chemicals we've inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s many books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45683221</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2021 07:00:15 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/45683221/happy_brain_anthony_poponi_07_13_21.mp3" length="91444161" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Is it new? Is it you? I discuss social awkwardness with “Focus on the Forty” founder, Anthony Poponi. (The 40% of happiness he believes we control.)&#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Is it new? Is it you? I discuss social awkwardness with “Focus on the Forty” founder, Anthony Poponi. (The 40% of happiness he believes we control.)<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can blaze new trails to your happy chemicals too.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels."<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand your inner mammal. Good feelings come from brain chemicals we've inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s many books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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Don't miss it.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can blaze new trails to your happy chemicals too.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels."<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand your inner mammal. Good feelings come from brain chemicals we've inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s many books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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He added one question in Spanish that he didn't ask in English, and the next day, I was asked the very same question by a different guest, so I tacked it onto the end of this episode- after the Spanish. Don't miss it.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can blaze new trails to your happy chemicals too.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels."<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand your inner mammal. Good feelings come from brain chemicals we've inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s many books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2970</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,dopamine,endorphin,inner,mammal,neural,oxytocin,pathways,practice,serotonin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Why We Do Things for Free</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/why-we-do-things-for-free--45880874</link><description><![CDATA[A Brazilian Product Manager asks me great questions about why we contribute to uncompensated activities, both online and IRL.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can blaze new trails to your happy chemicals too.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels."<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand your inner mammal. Good feelings come from brain chemicals we've inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s many books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45880874</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2021 07:00:18 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/45880874/happy_brain_rodrigo_kleinert_07_29_21.mp3" length="99866038" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>A Brazilian Product Manager asks me great questions about why we contribute to uncompensated activities, both online and IRL.&#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[A Brazilian Product Manager asks me great questions about why we contribute to uncompensated activities, both online and IRL.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can blaze new trails to your happy chemicals too.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels."<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand your inner mammal. Good feelings come from brain chemicals we've inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s many books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can blaze new trails to your happy chemicals too.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels."<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand your inner mammal. Good feelings come from brain chemicals we've inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s many books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45341136</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2021 07:00:21 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/45341136/happy_brain_miriam_mandel_06_17_21.mp3" length="96607002" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Dr. Miriam Mandel shares the inspiring story of how she came to train teachers in methods that build wellness in children. (exhalewithme.com)&#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin....</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Dr. Miriam Mandel shares the inspiring story of how she came to train teachers in methods that build wellness in children. (exhalewithme.com)<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can blaze new trails to your happy chemicals too.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels."<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand your inner mammal. Good feelings come from brain chemicals we've inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s many books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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Listen in and subscribe so you can blaze new trails to your happy chemicals too.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels."<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand your inner mammal. Good feelings come from brain chemicals we've inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s many books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45218125</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2021 07:00:12 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/45218125/happy_brain_rafik_belloum_06_08_21.mp3" length="185226886" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Great questions about career happiness and trade-offs are posed by a reader who's a computer scientist in France.&#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Great questions about career happiness and trade-offs are posed by a reader who's a computer scientist in France.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can blaze new trails to your happy chemicals too.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels."<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand your inner mammal. Good feelings come from brain chemicals we've inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s many books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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Listen in and subscribe so you can blaze new trails to your happy chemicals too.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels."<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand your inner mammal. Good feelings come from brain chemicals we've inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s many books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45341968</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2021 07:00:05 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/45341968/happy_brain_rob_roseman_06_17_21.mp3" length="134086446" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The man behind the "Dad The Best I Can" book and podcast chats with me about helping his kids wire in good happy habits within the challenges of modern life. &#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The man behind the "Dad The Best I Can" book and podcast chats with me about helping his kids wire in good happy habits within the challenges of modern life. <br /><br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can blaze new trails to your happy chemicals too.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels."<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand your inner mammal. Good feelings come from brain chemicals we've inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s many books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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Listen in and subscribe so you can blaze new trails to your happy chemicals too.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels."<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand your inner mammal. Good feelings come from brain chemicals we've inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Addiction coach Dennis Berry tells me how he left the partying life and how he helps others reach emotional sobriety.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can blaze new trails to your happy chemicals too.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels."<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand your inner mammal. Good feelings come from brain chemicals we've inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s many books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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Listen in and subscribe so you can blaze new trails to your happy chemicals too.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels."<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand your inner mammal. Good feelings come from brain chemicals we've inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s many books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45032967</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2021 07:00:11 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/45032967/happy_brain_zack_klapman_05_25_21.mp3" length="93926838" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>A car enthusiast tells me about the early experience that wired in his hobby happiness, and how he built it into a career.&#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[A car enthusiast tells me about the early experience that wired in his hobby happiness, and how he built it into a career.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin.  My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can blaze new trails to your happy chemicals too.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels."<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand your inner mammal. Good feelings come from brain chemicals we've inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s many books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can blaze new trails to your happy chemicals too.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels."<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand your inner mammal. Good feelings come from brain chemicals we've inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s many books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to dopamine,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Brain First Training Institute Founder Ramon David tells me how he helps people tap into high-performance motivation with his deep research and coaching experience (mybrainfirst.com).<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can blaze new trails to your happy chemicals too.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels."<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand your inner mammal. Good feelings come from brain chemicals we've inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s many books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can blaze new trails to your happy chemicals too.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels."<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand your inner mammal. Good feelings come from brain chemicals we've inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s many books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to dopamine,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[My guest, Renee de Weerd, explains how emotions get stuck as muscle tension, and how you can release them to improve physical and emotional well-being.  embodiedpleasures.com<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can blaze new trails to your happy chemicals too.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels."<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand your inner mammal. Good feelings come from brain chemicals we've inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. 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My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can blaze new trails to your happy chemicals too.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels."<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand your inner mammal. Good feelings come from brain chemicals we've inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. 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They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s many books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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Listen in and subscribe so you can blaze new trails to your happy chemicals too.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels."<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand your inner mammal. Good feelings come from brain chemicals we've inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[You’re responsible for your brain the way that you're responsible for your teeth, says my guest, LCSW Andrea Parsons.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you blaze new trails to your dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. My guests are pioneers in retraining the inner mammal. I love learning from them! Listen in and subscribe so you can blaze new trails to your happy chemicals too.<br /><br />Your host, Loretta Breuning is founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels."<br /><br />Life is more peaceful and satisfying when you understand your inner mammal. Good feelings come from brain chemicals we've inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s many books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain:...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[My guest, Tim Krass, was depressed and addicted for decades, but he found love and purpose by redefining masculinity.<br /><br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Luis Gallardo tells me how he created the World Happiness Foundation and what’s in store for this year’s free online festival March 18-23 <a href="http://www.worldhappiness.foundation" rel="noopener">www.worldhappiness.foundation</a>  <br /><br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2127</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,dopamine,endorphins,feedback,happiness,loop,mood,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,perspective,practice,serotonin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>How Dentists Fight Stress</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/how-dentists-fight-stress--43147919</link><description><![CDATA[Find out how my guest, Dhru Shah, helps dentists improve their wellbeing through his organization, Dentinal Tubules.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43147919</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2021 08:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/43147919/happy_brain_dhru_shah_edit_1_27_21.mp3" length="78659002" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Find out how my guest, Dhru Shah, helps dentists improve their wellbeing through his organization, Dentinal Tubules.&#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain:...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Find out how my guest, Dhru Shah, helps dentists improve their wellbeing through his organization, Dentinal Tubules.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2458</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain chemicals,dentist,dentistry,dopamine,mental health,neural,neuroplasticity,pathways,serotonin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>A Gentle Way to Reprogram Yourself</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-gentle-way-to-reprogram-yourself--42827879</link><description><![CDATA[My guest, EFT Therapist Cecile Marie, explains how the tapping technique worked for her, and why she thinks it can work for others. (femininehealingarts.com)<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/42827879</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2021 08:30:08 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/42827879/happy_brain_cecile_tapping_edit_1_07_20.mp3" length="45417871" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>My guest, EFT Therapist Cecile Marie, explains how the tapping technique worked for her, and why she thinks it can work for others. (femininehealingarts.com)&#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[My guest, EFT Therapist Cecile Marie, explains how the tapping technique worked for her, and why she thinks it can work for others. (femininehealingarts.com)<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1420</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>anxiety,brainchemicals,eft,practice,ptsd,relief,repetition,tapping,trauma</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Teaching Self-Management to Children</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/teaching-self-management-to-children--42504714</link><description><![CDATA[My guest, Christen Schweizer, tells me how she uses the inner mammal method on her kids. <br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/42504714</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2021 08:00:04 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/42504714/happy_brain_christen_scheizer_edit_12_15_20.mp3" length="73142776" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>My guest, Christen Schweizer, tells me how she uses the inner mammal method on her kids. &#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[My guest, Christen Schweizer, tells me how she uses the inner mammal method on her kids. <br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2286</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>adaptation,behavior,bias,dopamine,endorphin,happy brain,innermammalinstitute,learning,mental health,oxytocin,parenting,practice,raisingchildren,repetition,serotonin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Beyond Bipolar</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/beyond-bipolar--42363920</link><description><![CDATA[My guest is writer, podcast host, and mental health advocate Joseph Fusaro, who talks to me about how he got labelled at a young age, and how he got himself past it.  <br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[My guest is writer, podcast host, and mental health advocate Joseph Fusaro, who talks to me about how he got labelled at a young age, and how he got himself past it.  <br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2687</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>dopamine,endorphin,feedbackloop,happy brain,neural,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,practice,repetition,serotonin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Winning and Losing</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/winning-and-losing--42160960</link><description><![CDATA[Coach Gwen Bryson recalls her “winning” days and how the inner-mammal method helped her get past that perspective and teach others to get past it.<br /><br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/42160960</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2020 08:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/42160960/happy_brain_gwen_edit_11_25_20.mp3" length="79229098" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Coach Gwen Bryson recalls her “winning” days and how the inner-mammal method helped her get past that perspective and teach others to get past it.&#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Coach Gwen Bryson recalls her “winning” days and how the inner-mammal method helped her get past that perspective and teach others to get past it.<br /><br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2476</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>addiction,brain chemicals,cortisol,dopamine,healthy habits,innermammalinstitute,losing,retrainyourbrain,serotonin,winning</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Anti-Bullyism Makes Things Worse</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/anti-bullyism-makes-things-worse--42125475</link><description><![CDATA[Izzy Kalman, school psychologist and founder of Bullies 2 Buddies, explains why the accepted anti-bullying strategy makes things worse.<br /><br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org.  <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now. (<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps! <br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them. <br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: https://innermammalinstitute.org/why  <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a> If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal. <br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons.  <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions.  <br /><br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org.  <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/42125475</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2020 08:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/42125475/happy_brain_izzy_kalman_edit_11_23_20.mp3" length="99820276" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Izzy Kalman, school psychologist and founder of Bullies 2 Buddies, explains why the accepted anti-bullying strategy makes things worse.


The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G....</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Izzy Kalman, school psychologist and founder of Bullies 2 Buddies, explains why the accepted anti-bullying strategy makes things worse.<br /><br /><br />The HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST helps you spark your happy brain chemicals in healthy ways. Your host is Loretta G. Breuning PhD, founder of the Inner Mammal Institute and author of "Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels.” Details at: https://innermammalinstitute.org.  <br /><br />Check out our new video course, Train Your Inner Mammal to Feel Good Now. (<a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/course" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/course</a> — 10% off with the code ReaderDiscount at the checkout.) You will learn to rewire your happy chemicals with small simple steps! <br /><br />Our dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin are inherited from earlier mammals. We control them with the limbic brain we’ve inherited from animals. The verbal human part of the brain doesn’t understand what makes the animal part feel good, and that’s why we do things to feel good that we later regret. When you understand the job that each happy chemical evolved to do, you can find healthy ways to spark them. <br /><br />Dr. Breuning’s new book, Why You’re Unhappy: Biology vs Politics, shows why unhappiness comes so easily to our brain. Why do they tell us that happiness is the natural state and unhappiness is a disorder? It’s politics. The kind of politics that all mammals have. Find out more at: https://innermammalinstitute.org/why  <br /><br />See video clips from this episode and others at: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hyR2RHXp04OmVhFUKNh81FT5gffvplq</a> If you like The Happy Brain Podcast, please rate and review it to help others make peace with their inner mammal. <br /><br />Our happy chemicals evolved to reward survival behavior, not to make you feel good all the time. Your brain chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, which wires you to repeat behaviors that spark good feelings and avoid behaviors that spark bad feelings. That’s why we keep repeating or avoiding things without quite knowing why. To change these patterns, you have to blaze a new trail through your jungle of neurons.  <br /><br />It’s hard because it takes so much repetition. The Inner Mammal Institute shows you how to design and build the new neural pathway that’s right for you, and motivate yourself to do the repetitions.  <br /><br />Rewiring your brain is like learning a foreign language: we all know it’s possible, but most people don’t. You can be someone who does! You can build new paths to your happy chemicals so you flow there more easily. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has the resources you need to do that. It offers free resources, including videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books explain the big picture and help you plot your course step by step. No matter where you are right now, you can enjoy more happy chemicals in healthy ways. Get the details at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org.  <br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at https://InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3120</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>anti-bullying,anti-bullyism,brainchemicals,bullying,bullyism,learning,lessons,neuralpathways,practice,resilience,schooling</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Best Morning Routine Ever</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/best-morning-routine-ever--41686337</link><description><![CDATA[The link between success and your morning routine is explained to me by Habit Coach Lunide Louis.  <br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/41686337</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2020 08:00:18 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/41686337/happy_brain_lunide_louis_edit_10_28_20.mp3" length="82418127" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The link between success and your morning routine is explained to me by Habit Coach Lunide Louis.  &#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The link between success and your morning routine is explained to me by Habit Coach Lunide Louis.  <br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2576</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brainchemicals,dopamine,habits,happybrain,health,healthy,oxytocin,routine,serotonin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Meditation Teacher Gets Real</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/meditation-teacher-gets-real--41087480</link><description><![CDATA[Singapore life coach and meditation teacher Yvonne Yeow chats with me about competitiveness, anxiety, and what works better than meditation (yvonneyeow.com).  <br /><br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/41087480</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2020 08:00:05 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/41087480/happy_brain_yvonne_meditation_edit_9_23_20.mp3" length="106478366" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Singapore life coach and meditation teacher Yvonne Yeow chats with me about competitiveness, anxiety, and what works better than meditation (yvonneyeow.com).  &#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Singapore life coach and meditation teacher Yvonne Yeow chats with me about competitiveness, anxiety, and what works better than meditation (yvonneyeow.com).  <br /><br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3328</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>anxiety,brainchemicals,cortisol,dopamine,happybrain,meditation,neuroplasticity,relief,serotonin,trauma</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/a5563df86724d6292f60a07e6fbb7030.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Guilt-Free Eating</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/guilt-free-eating--40250804</link><description><![CDATA[Eating with pleasure instead of guilt is the guiding light of my guest, Wellness Coach Kacee Leigh (kaceefitness.com).  <br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/40250804</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2020 07:00:06 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/40250804/happy_brain_kacee_edit_8_10_20.mp3" length="73004850" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Eating with pleasure instead of guilt is the guiding light of my guest, Wellness Coach Kacee Leigh (kaceefitness.com).  &#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Eating with pleasure instead of guilt is the guiding light of my guest, Wellness Coach Kacee Leigh (kaceefitness.com).  <br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2282</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,change,dopamine,eating,food,guilt,guilt-free,mindset,neuroplasticity,nutrition,repetition,self-acceptance,shift,sugar,traits,trends</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/39230abfb411653f0214a2d2fbf8e734.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Digital Nomads</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/digital-nomads--39924496</link><description><![CDATA[The joys and sorrows of the digital nomad lifestyle are explored with entrepreneur Tomas Laurinavicius.    <br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The joys and sorrows of the digital nomad lifestyle are explored with entrepreneur Tomas Laurinavicius.    <br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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  THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[A clever program to help children resist bullying is explained to me by its creator, Mike Healy, of FaceOffGroup.com. <br /><br />  THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The strong emotions people have about public speaking are discussed with speaking coach, Maryna Shkvorets (marynashkvorets.com), and I get unconventional advice.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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Gavin Abeyratne tells me about his work helping consultants to market themselves.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/37682572</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2020 07:00:08 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/37682572/happy_brain_gavin_a_edit_7_8_20.mp3" length="67623207" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>What persuasion techniques work? Should you feel comfortable using them? Gavin Abeyratne tells me about his work helping consultants to market themselves.&#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[What persuasion techniques work? Should you feel comfortable using them? Gavin Abeyratne tells me about his work helping consultants to market themselves.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Brett McKay of The Art of Manliness joins me for a discussion of hopelessness about relationships and how to transcend it.  <br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2779</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>chemicals,divorce,female brain,hope,hopelessness,learning,male brain,monogamy,neural,neuroplasticity,pathways,relationships,unlearning</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/39230abfb411653f0214a2d2fbf8e734.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Money + Emotions</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/money-emotions--24748643</link><description><![CDATA[Our money-related fears and impulses are the subject of my conversation with Dennis Harhalakis, Founder of Cambridge Money Coaching. Can you change your money habits?<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Our money-related fears and impulses are the subject of my conversation with Dennis Harhalakis, Founder of Cambridge Money Coaching. Can you change your money habits?<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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Get the link and listen to more past weekly recordings at: InnerMammalInstitute.org/zoomchat.<br /><br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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Get the link and listen to more past weekly recordings at: InnerMammalInstitute.org/zoomchat.<br /><br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[What to do when nothing seems to work - and other great questions posed by Liz Harmer, Leadership coach and student in the Inner Mammal Institute training program.  <br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[How can you be a happy couple when you’re both mammals? This is the interest of my guest, Happiness Laboratory founder Mariann Idstad.<br /><br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2851</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,lastinglove,love,neural,neuroplasticity,pathways,practice,relationships,retrain,serotonin,train</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/39230abfb411653f0214a2d2fbf8e734.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Weltschmerz = World Pain</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/weltschmerz-world-pain--29315825</link><description><![CDATA[Russian journalist Nika Weltschmerz asks me questions about how to shift out of painful feelings. <br /><br />  THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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  THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Russian journalist Nika Weltschmerz asks me questions about how to shift out of painful feelings. <br /><br />  THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3438</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,dopamine,feelings,habits,neural,neuroplasticity,pathways,response,serotonin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/39230abfb411653f0214a2d2fbf8e734.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Health Fears</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/health-fears--24750200</link><description><![CDATA[Stress coach and yoga teacher Ola Mason chats with me about body concerns, both positives and negatives.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Stress coach and yoga teacher Ola Mason chats with me about body concerns, both positives and negatives.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Many couples are battling over whether it's safe to go out, and marriage therapist Dr. Susan Heitler gives me tips on how to deal with this.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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Sherri is a Certified Inner Mammal Trainer <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/certifiedtrainers/" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/certifiedtrainers/</a><br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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Sherri is a Certified Inner Mammal Trainer <a href="https://innermammalinstitute.org/certifiedtrainers/" rel="noopener">https://innermammalinstitute.org/certifiedtrainers/</a><br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Therapist Mia Bolte uses the inner mammal method with clients and talks to me about who changes and why. Career planning is also a topic.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2206</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>anxiety,brain,change,habits,neuroplasticity,science,selfhelp,selfimprovement</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/39230abfb411653f0214a2d2fbf8e734.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Motivation and Flow</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/motivation-and-flow--27676822</link><description><![CDATA[Flow Coach Marco Giannecchini talks to me about the four-step flow cycle: struggle, release, flow, and recovery.  <a href="https://marcogiannecchini.com/2020/04/05/an-extraordinary-life-a-life-with-many-mini-flow-cycles/" rel="noopener">https://marcogiannecchini.com/2020/04/05/an-extraordinary-life-a-life-with-many-mini-flow-cycles/</a>  <br /><br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Flow Coach Marco Giannecchini talks to me about the four-step flow cycle: struggle, release, flow, and recovery.  <a href="https://marcogiannecchini.com/2020/04/05/an-extraordinary-life-a-life-with-many-mini-flow-cycles/" rel="noopener">https://marcogiannecchini.com/2020/04/05/an-extraordinary-life-a-life-with-many-mini-flow-cycles/</a>  <br /><br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2282</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>automatic,body,brain,cerebellum,enjoyment,flow,mind,motivation,neural,overanalyzation,pathways,practice,struggle,thought</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/39230abfb411653f0214a2d2fbf8e734.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Stop Wasting Time &amp; Money</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/stop-wasting-time-money--34519494</link><description><![CDATA[Personal Finance guru Leif Kristjansen tells me how he stopped wasting time watching news, and how he taught his three-year old to save money.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/34519494</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2020 07:00:19 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/34519494/happy_brain_leif_stop_wasting_time_money_edit_06_29_20.mp3" length="73047482" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Personal Finance guru Leif Kristjansen tells me how he stopped wasting time watching news, and how he taught his three-year old to save money.&#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Personal Finance guru Leif Kristjansen tells me how he stopped wasting time watching news, and how he taught his three-year old to save money.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2283</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,consumption,finances,input,interest,learning,lessons,media,network,neural,news,pathways</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/39230abfb411653f0214a2d2fbf8e734.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Rewiring Children</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/rewiring-children--21280712</link><description><![CDATA[Child therapist Maurice Flournoy of New Mind Creator tells us how he helps children rewire themselves when necessary.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/21280712</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2020 08:00:09 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/21280712/happy_brain_maurice_flournoy_edit_01_02_20.mp3" length="68576990" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Child therapist Maurice Flournoy of New Mind Creator tells us how he helps children rewire themselves when necessary.&#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain:...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Child therapist Maurice Flournoy of New Mind Creator tells us how he helps children rewire themselves when necessary.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2143</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,depression,parenting,psychology,rewire</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/39230abfb411653f0214a2d2fbf8e734.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Gamifying Education</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/gamifying-education--21280695</link><description><![CDATA[Rob Alvarez, AKA ProfessorGame, helps me think about bringing the fun of games to education.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Rob Alvarez, AKA ProfessorGame, helps me think about bringing the fun of games to education.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2344</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,dopamine,education,gamification,learning,literacy,neuroplasticity,practice</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/b8a5ef3e1184ac490cd0a667770a1962.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Coaching with the Inner Mammal Method</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/coaching-with-the-inner-mammal-method--21280693</link><description><![CDATA[Health coach Lily Potter tells me how she helps clients discover their old pathways and build new paths to their happy chemicals; the Inner Mammal Method she mentions is at InnerMammalInstitute.org/method<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/21280693</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2020 08:00:08 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/21280693/happy_brain_lilly_potter_edit_01_02_20.mp3" length="64017055" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Health coach Lily Potter tells me how she helps clients discover their old pathways and build new paths to their happy chemicals; the Inner Mammal Method she mentions is at InnerMammalInstitute.org/method&#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Health coach Lily Potter tells me how she helps clients discover their old pathways and build new paths to their happy chemicals; the Inner Mammal Method she mentions is at InnerMammalInstitute.org/method<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2001</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>anxiety,coaching,cortisol,dopamine,parenting</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/b8a5ef3e1184ac490cd0a667770a1962.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>HR &amp; Mental Health</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/hr-mental-health--28893394</link><description><![CDATA[HR expert Mitchell Langbert discusses the pros and cons of employee mental health programs with me, as these programs grow rapidly.<br /><br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/28893394</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2020 07:05:13 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/28893394/happy_brain_mitchell_langbert_edit_6_02_20.mp3" length="77898316" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>HR expert Mitchell Langbert discusses the pros and cons of employee mental health programs with me, as these programs grow rapidly.&#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[HR expert Mitchell Langbert discusses the pros and cons of employee mental health programs with me, as these programs grow rapidly.<br /><br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2435</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,dopamine,human,jobs,mentalhealth,resources,reward,risk,serotonin,structure</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/b8a5ef3e1184ac490cd0a667770a1962.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Job Interview Status Anxiety</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/job-interview-status-anxiety--21227517</link><description><![CDATA[A recruiter chats with me about managing your one-up/one-down feelings during a job interview.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[A recruiter chats with me about managing your one-up/one-down feelings during a job interview.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[I discover the amazing work of Zing Performance with its founder, Wynford Dore, who built tools to reprogram the cerebellum and make astonishing improvements in performance.<br /> <br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2699</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,cerebellum,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,program,reprogram,wynforddore,zingperformance</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/b8a5ef3e1184ac490cd0a667770a1962.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Push Positivity onto Others?</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/push-positivity-onto-others--20630965</link><description><![CDATA[I want to hear how Robert Labayen pushes positivity onto colleagues, friends and family because I find it hard to do that.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/20630965</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2020 11:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/20630965/happy_brain_robert_lebayen_edit_12_10_19.mp3" length="74140863" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>I want to hear how Robert Labayen pushes positivity onto colleagues, friends and family because I find it hard to do that.&#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[I want to hear how Robert Labayen pushes positivity onto colleagues, friends and family because I find it hard to do that.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2317</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>author,brain,brainscience,doubt,health,hope,neuroplasticity,optimism,positivity,programming,psychology,science,serotonin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/b8a5ef3e1184ac490cd0a667770a1962.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Animal-Human Bond</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-animal-human-bond--19909399</link><description><![CDATA[Yumi Tsui of Psych2Go.net asked me questions about the human/animal bond that came from her young readers.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Yumi Tsui of Psych2Go.net asked me questions about the human/animal bond that came from her young readers.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2152</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>affection,animals,bonding,brain,brainchemicals,comfort,connection,disappointment,health,love,mammalbrain,mammalilian,pets</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/b8a5ef3e1184ac490cd0a667770a1962.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>A Bibliotherapy Start-Up</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/a-bibliotherapy-start-up--19894198</link><description><![CDATA[Gabriella Cordero asks me great questions to help launch her bibliotherapy project. <br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/19894198</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2020 04:00:10 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/19894198/happy_brain_bibliotherapy_edit_11_06_19.mp3" length="91403414" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Gabriella Cordero asks me great questions to help launch her bibliotherapy project. &#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Gabriella Cordero asks me great questions to help launch her bibliotherapy project. <br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2857</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>bibliotherapy,brain,emotionalgrowth,health,journaling,selfawareness,selfdiscovery,selfhelp,therapy,writing</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/b8a5ef3e1184ac490cd0a667770a1962.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Becoming an Authoritative Parent/Teacher</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/becoming-an-authoritative-parent-teacher--19573917</link><description><![CDATA[A longtime reader faces the challenge of being an authoritative teacher/parent when she’d rather just be “nice."<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain:...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[A longtime reader faces the challenge of being an authoritative teacher/parent when she’d rather just be “nice."<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2586</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>action,authority,behavioral,change,discipline,health,oxytocin,parenting,responsibility,teacher</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/b8a5ef3e1184ac490cd0a667770a1962.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Stuck at Home? How to Keep Up Your Happy Brain Chemicals and Avoid Threat Chemicals</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/stuck-at-home-how-to-keep-up-your-happy-brain-chemicals-and-avoid-threat-chemicals--23936713</link><description><![CDATA[Even when the world has changed or come to a stop, you can keep directing your brain toward reward chemicals and feel good.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Even when the world has changed or come to a stop, you can keep directing your brain toward reward chemicals and feel good.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain:...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA["Claire the Soberholic" tells me how she re-wired a lifelong drinking habit, and now helps others to do the same.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Dr. Liz Bonet gives me a practical explanation of how hypnosis relieves pain, fear, and stress.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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I love hearing her view of animal behavior.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/18866063</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Feb 2020 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/18866063/happy_brain_april_ockerman_edit_08_20_19_8_20_19_10_51_am.mp3" length="73854143" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>My guest, April Ockerman, manages cows and teaches people how to manage them. I love hearing her view of animal behavior.&#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[My guest, April Ockerman, manages cows and teaches people how to manage them. I love hearing her view of animal behavior.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2308</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,bull,cow,dopamine,farming,feeding,herdmentality,mammal brain,mating,ranchers,survivalofthefittest</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/b8a5ef3e1184ac490cd0a667770a1962.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/solution-focused-hypnotherapy--18900614</link><description><![CDATA[My guest tells us how Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy helps people build new neural pathways.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/18900614</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2020 14:00:14 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/18900614/happy_brain_trevor_edells_edit_08_23_19.mp3" length="63202035" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>My guest tells us how Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy helps people build new neural pathways.&#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[My guest tells us how Solution-Focused Hypnotherapy helps people build new neural pathways.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1975</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,brainchemicals,connections,depression,fear,focus,hypnotherapy,neuralpathways,neurons,nlp,pain,solution based,solution focused,solutions</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/b8a5ef3e1184ac490cd0a667770a1962.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Trauma + Hope Documentary Producer</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/trauma-hope-documentary-producer--18867916</link><description><![CDATA[Emmy-award-winner Eric Christiansen rose from addiction and losing his home in a wildfire through the act of making documentaries about other people’s trauma path.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Emmy-award-winner Eric Christiansen rose from addiction and losing his home in a wildfire through the act of making documentaries about other people’s trauma path.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2343</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>addiction,art,authors,brainchemicals,documentary,emmy,hope,mammal brain,producer,recovery,screenwriter,trauma,trauma survivor,writers</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/b8a5ef3e1184ac490cd0a667770a1962.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Emotional Self-Management Tools</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/emotional-self-management-tools--18299819</link><description><![CDATA[My guest is Janelle Allbritton, who teaches of emotional self-management through Jailhouse Jazz, Tapping (EFT), and the centerfold section of the local newspaper she owns.<br /><br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[My guest is Janelle Allbritton, who teaches of emotional self-management through Jailhouse Jazz, Tapping (EFT), and the centerfold section of the local newspaper she owns.<br /><br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2786</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,chi,cortisol,eft,emotions,jailhousejazz,ki,music,science,self-care,self-management,self-regulation,serotonin,tapping</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/b8a5ef3e1184ac490cd0a667770a1962.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Endorphin = Laughter = Improv</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/endorphin-laughter-improv--18205401</link><description><![CDATA[Improv teacher Peter Chapman helps me understand what makes us laugh.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Improv teacher Peter Chapman helps me understand what makes us laugh.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/17859844</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 2019 05:00:18 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/17859844/happy_brain_casey_hersch_edit_05_07_19.mp3" length="73810675" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>My guest Casey Hersch of Light Your Sparkle tells us how a healthy habit of her youth helped her transcend some unhealthy habits.&#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[My guest Casey Hersch of Light Your Sparkle tells us how a healthy habit of her youth helped her transcend some unhealthy habits.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2307</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,crohns,crohnsdisease,neuroplasticity,pain,rewire</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/37fd8b7b1dd2d162678404ba627f02ad.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Adrenaline &amp; Your Passion</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/adrenaline-your-passion--17805945</link><description><![CDATA[Do you love something that others hate? My guest does, and we explore the reasons.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/17805945</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2019 05:00:20 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/17805945/happy_brain_tom_chillemi_edit_05_01_19.mp3" length="86602734" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Do you love something that others hate? My guest does, and we explore the reasons.&#13;
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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Do you love something that others hate? My guest does, and we explore the reasons.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2707</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>adrenaline,cortisol,dopamine,individuality,oxytocin,passion,serotonin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/37fd8b7b1dd2d162678404ba627f02ad.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Money: How it Triggers Us</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/money-how-it-triggers-us--17659228</link><description><![CDATA[Investment-manager JP Tissot tells me how the Inner Mammal Method saved him millions of dollars by improving his self-management skills.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Investment-manager JP Tissot tells me how the Inner Mammal Method saved him millions of dollars by improving his self-management skills.<br /><br />THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST is a frank conversation between Loretta Breuning and a real reader of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />It’s not easy, alas. Our brain is designed to release happy chemicals when you take steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them— a lot!<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s manyt books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can feel good in new ways, no matter where you are right now. Get the details at InnerMammalInstitute.org.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3239</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>cortisol,dopamine,finances,financialfreedom,financial triggers,investments,money,prosperity,stress,valueinvestor,warrenbuffet</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/37fd8b7b1dd2d162678404ba627f02ad.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Yoga, Mythology, and Happy Chemicals</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/yoga-mythology-and-happy-chemicals--16864057</link><description><![CDATA[My guest Mu Gadu teaches yoga and mythology and loves finding ways to integrate it with science.<br /><br />WHAT IS THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST?<br /><br />It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. <br /><br />Do you wonder what stimulates your happy brain chemicals- dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphin? Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. Our brain is designed to reward you with happy chemicals for steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them a lot. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can find new ways to feel good, wherever you are right now.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[My guest Mu Gadu teaches yoga and mythology and loves finding ways to integrate it with science.<br /><br />WHAT IS THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST?<br /><br />It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. <br /><br />Do you wonder what stimulates your happy brain chemicals- dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphin? Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. Our brain is designed to reward you with happy chemicals for steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them a lot. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can find new ways to feel good, wherever you are right now.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3221</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,egyptianyoga,emotions,endorphin,myth,mythology,yoga</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e06505838f53ccdfde38cf453af26790.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Social Pain = Physical Pain to your Inner Mammal</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/social-pain-physical-pain-to-your-inner-mammal--16331598</link><description><![CDATA[A reader asks why we confuse social pain with physical pain, and how this works with “introverts” vs “extroverts.” <br /><br />WHAT IS THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST?<br /><br />It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. <br /><br />Do you wonder what stimulates your happy brain chemicals- dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphin? Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. Our brain is designed to reward you with happy chemicals for steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them a lot. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can find new ways to feel good, wherever you are right now.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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WHAT IS THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST?&#13;
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It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[A reader asks why we confuse social pain with physical pain, and how this works with “introverts” vs “extroverts.” <br /><br />WHAT IS THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST?<br /><br />It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. <br /><br />Do you wonder what stimulates your happy brain chemicals- dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphin? Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. Our brain is designed to reward you with happy chemicals for steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them a lot. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can find new ways to feel good, wherever you are right now.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2129</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,cortisol,inner,introvert,mammal,oxytocin,rejection</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e06505838f53ccdfde38cf453af26790.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Feeling Judged in the Workplace</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/feeling-judged-in-the-workplace--16331701</link><description><![CDATA[I explore the deeper roots of workplace stress with coach Robert Paris, Founder of Myelin Leadership.<br /><br />WHAT IS THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST?<br /><br />It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. <br /><br />Do you wonder what stimulates your happy brain chemicals- dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphin? Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. Our brain is designed to reward you with happy chemicals for steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them a lot. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can find new ways to feel good, wherever you are right now.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/16331701</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Sep 2019 08:00:10 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/16331701/happy_brain_robert_paris_mhnr_edit_volume_fixed_11_27_18_11_27_am.mp3" length="46299764" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>I explore the deeper roots of workplace stress with coach Robert Paris, Founder of Myelin Leadership.&#13;
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It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain:...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[I explore the deeper roots of workplace stress with coach Robert Paris, Founder of Myelin Leadership.<br /><br />WHAT IS THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST?<br /><br />It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. <br /><br />Do you wonder what stimulates your happy brain chemicals- dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphin? Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. Our brain is designed to reward you with happy chemicals for steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them a lot. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can find new ways to feel good, wherever you are right now.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1929</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,career,cortisol,innner,leadership,mammal,myelin,stress</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e06505838f53ccdfde38cf453af26790.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Hijackals: The People Who Trigger You</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/hijackals-the-people-who-trigger-you--16336331</link><description><![CDATA[Dr. Rhoberta Shaler shares her strategy for managing “hijackals” (her term), and I question the habit of blaming our feelings on others.<br /><br />WHAT IS THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST?<br /><br />It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. <br /><br />Do you wonder what stimulates your happy brain chemicals- dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphin? Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. Our brain is designed to reward you with happy chemicals for steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them a lot. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can find new ways to feel good, wherever you are right now.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/16336331</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2019 08:00:16 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/16336331/happy_brain_rhoberta_shaler_11_27_18_12_43_pm.mp3" length="95257834" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Dr. Rhoberta Shaler shares her strategy for managing “hijackals” (her term), and I question the habit of blaming our feelings on others.&#13;
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It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Dr. Rhoberta Shaler shares her strategy for managing “hijackals” (her term), and I question the habit of blaming our feelings on others.<br /><br />WHAT IS THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST?<br /><br />It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. <br /><br />Do you wonder what stimulates your happy brain chemicals- dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphin? Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. Our brain is designed to reward you with happy chemicals for steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them a lot. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can find new ways to feel good, wherever you are right now.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2977</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>anger,boundaries,narcissism,narcissists,victim</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e06505838f53ccdfde38cf453af26790.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Gossip on the Self-Change Industry</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/gossip-on-the-self-change-industry--16751813</link><description><![CDATA[Dr. Steven Cangiano describes his long experience in the Personal Growth world: good, bad, ugly, and happy ending.<br /><br />WHAT IS THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST?<br /><br />It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. <br /><br />Do you wonder what stimulates your happy brain chemicals- dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphin? Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. Our brain is designed to reward you with happy chemicals for steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them a lot. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can find new ways to feel good, wherever you are right now.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/16751813</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2019 08:00:19 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/16751813/happy_brain_stephen_cangiano_mhnr_edit_1_18_19_6_16_pm.mp3" length="113851166" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Dr. Steven Cangiano describes his long experience in the Personal Growth world: good, bad, ugly, and happy ending.&#13;
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It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a Happy...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Dr. Steven Cangiano describes his long experience in the Personal Growth world: good, bad, ugly, and happy ending.<br /><br />WHAT IS THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST?<br /><br />It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. <br /><br />Do you wonder what stimulates your happy brain chemicals- dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphin? Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. Our brain is designed to reward you with happy chemicals for steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them a lot. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can find new ways to feel good, wherever you are right now.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3558</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>diet,empowerment,personaldevelopment,personalgrowth,selfchange,weightloss</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e06505838f53ccdfde38cf453af26790.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Love and The Mammalian Quest for Safety</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/love-and-the-mammalian-quest-for-safety--17445012</link><description><![CDATA[How can you fall in love with someone who makes you feel safe? My guest, Megan Riley, guides her clients to do this.<br /><br />WHAT IS THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST?<br /><br />It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. <br /><br />Do you wonder what stimulates your happy brain chemicals- dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphin? Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. Our brain is designed to reward you with happy chemicals for steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them a lot. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can find new ways to feel good, wherever you are right now.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/17445012</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2019 08:00:02 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/17445012/happy_brain_megan_riley_mhnr_edit_03_26_19.mp3" length="102438373" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>How can you fall in love with someone who makes you feel safe? My guest, Megan Riley, guides her clients to do this.&#13;
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It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[How can you fall in love with someone who makes you feel safe? My guest, Megan Riley, guides her clients to do this.<br /><br />WHAT IS THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST?<br /><br />It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. <br /><br />Do you wonder what stimulates your happy brain chemicals- dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphin? Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. Our brain is designed to reward you with happy chemicals for steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them a lot. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can find new ways to feel good, wherever you are right now.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3202</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>dopamine,healing,love,oxytocin,relationships,serotonin,trauma</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/37fd8b7b1dd2d162678404ba627f02ad.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Self vs. Other: Finding Balance</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/self-vs-other-finding-balance--17658018</link><description><![CDATA[Charlotte Tharup of theMindfulnessClinic.com.au weaves her perspective with mine on the challenge of finding connection and transcending negativity.<br /><br />WHAT IS THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST?<br /><br />It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. <br /><br />Do you wonder what stimulates your happy brain chemicals- dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphin? Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. Our brain is designed to reward you with happy chemicals for steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them a lot. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can find new ways to feel good, wherever you are right now.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/17658018</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2019 08:00:03 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/17658018/happy_brain_charlotte_tharup_edit_04_16_19.mp3" length="131351118" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Charlotte Tharup of theMindfulnessClinic.com.au weaves her perspective with mine on the challenge of finding connection and transcending negativity.&#13;
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It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Charlotte Tharup of theMindfulnessClinic.com.au weaves her perspective with mine on the challenge of finding connection and transcending negativity.<br /><br />WHAT IS THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST?<br /><br />It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. <br /><br />Do you wonder what stimulates your happy brain chemicals- dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphin? Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. Our brain is designed to reward you with happy chemicals for steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them a lot. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can find new ways to feel good, wherever you are right now.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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(Read it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/method).<br /><br />WHAT IS THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST?<br /><br />It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. <br /><br />Do you wonder what stimulates your happy brain chemicals- dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphin? Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. Our brain is designed to reward you with happy chemicals for steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them a lot. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can find new ways to feel good, wherever you are right now.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/16342159</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2019 08:00:23 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/16342159/happy_brain_q_and_a_about_inner_mammalian_brain.mp3" length="87696116" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Jayaram Krishnaswami tries reconcile the Inner Mammal Method with his prior training with many good questions. (Read it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/method).&#13;
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It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Jayaram Krishnaswami tries reconcile the Inner Mammal Method with his prior training with many good questions. (Read it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/method).<br /><br />WHAT IS THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST?<br /><br />It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. <br /><br />Do you wonder what stimulates your happy brain chemicals- dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphin? Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. Our brain is designed to reward you with happy chemicals for steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them a lot. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can find new ways to feel good, wherever you are right now.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2741</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>depression,happiness,neuroplasticity,parenting,selfimprovement</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e06505838f53ccdfde38cf453af26790.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>"Men Are Great" Author Karen Jones Helps Us Manage Cortisol</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/men-are-great-author-karen-jones-helps-us-manage-cortisol--16445363</link><description><![CDATA["Honey, I don’t ask until I’m angry and I’m going to change that." This line will solve your relationship problems, says Karen.<br /><br />WHAT IS THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST?<br /><br />It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. <br /><br />Do you wonder what stimulates your happy brain chemicals- dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphin? Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. Our brain is designed to reward you with happy chemicals for steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them a lot. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can find new ways to feel good, wherever you are right now.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/16445363</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2019 08:00:18 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/16445363/happy_brain_karen_men_are_great_mhnr_edit_12_11_18_2_41_pm.mp3" length="97587538" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>"Honey, I don’t ask until I’m angry and I’m going to change that." This line will solve your relationship problems, says Karen.&#13;
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It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA["Honey, I don’t ask until I’m angry and I’m going to change that." This line will solve your relationship problems, says Karen.<br /><br />WHAT IS THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST?<br /><br />It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. <br /><br />Do you wonder what stimulates your happy brain chemicals- dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphin? Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. Our brain is designed to reward you with happy chemicals for steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them a lot. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can find new ways to feel good, wherever you are right now.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3050</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,cortisol,dating,femalebrain,marriage,oxytocin,relationships</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e06505838f53ccdfde38cf453af26790.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Social Media and Brain Chemistry</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/social-media-and-brain-chemistry--16792688</link><description><![CDATA["Good Social Only" founder Anna Kochetkova chats with me about healthy use of social media instead of demonizing it and giving up.<br /><br />WHAT IS THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST?<br /><br />It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. <br /><br />Do you wonder what stimulates your happy brain chemicals- dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphin? Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. Our brain is designed to reward you with happy chemicals for steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them a lot. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can find new ways to feel good, wherever you are right now.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA["Good Social Only" founder Anna Kochetkova chats with me about healthy use of social media instead of demonizing it and giving up.<br /><br />WHAT IS THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST?<br /><br />It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. <br /><br />Do you wonder what stimulates your happy brain chemicals- dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphin? Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. Our brain is designed to reward you with happy chemicals for steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them a lot. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can find new ways to feel good, wherever you are right now.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>3499</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>balance,brain,digitaldetox,empowerment,facebook,marketing,neuroplasticity,thrive</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e06505838f53ccdfde38cf453af26790.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Brain-Based Trauma Interventions</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/brain-based-trauma-interventions--17571388</link><description><![CDATA[Libby Murdoch of Brain-based Trauma Counseling and Consulting explains some effective strategies for people who believe they are experiencing trauma.<br /><br />WHAT IS THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST?<br /><br />It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. <br /><br />Do you wonder what stimulates your happy brain chemicals- dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphin? Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You could be a guest on the show!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. Our brain is designed to reward you with happy chemicals for steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them a lot. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can find new ways to feel good, wherever you are right now.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/17571388</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2019 08:00:17 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/17571388/happy_brain_libby_murchoch_edit_04_08_19.mp3" length="113852002" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Libby Murdoch of Brain-based Trauma Counseling and Consulting explains some effective strategies for people who believe they are experiencing trauma.&#13;
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It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Libby Murdoch of Brain-based Trauma Counseling and Consulting explains some effective strategies for people who believe they are experiencing trauma.<br /><br />WHAT IS THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST?<br /><br />It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. <br /><br />Do you wonder what stimulates your happy brain chemicals- dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphin? Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You could be a guest on the show!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. Our brain is designed to reward you with happy chemicals for steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them a lot. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can find new ways to feel good, wherever you are right now.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. 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He actually trains managers at the zoo!<br /><br />WHAT IS THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST?<br /><br />It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. <br /><br />Do you wonder what stimulates your happy brain chemicals- dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphin? Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. Our brain is designed to reward you with happy chemicals for steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them a lot. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can find new ways to feel good, wherever you are right now.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/16816400</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2019 08:00:04 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/16816400/happy_brain_andrew_okeefe_1_22_19_mhnr_edit.mp3" length="61779302" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Andrew O’Keefe founded “Hardwired Humans” to solve inner mammal problems in the workplace. He actually trains managers at the zoo!&#13;
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It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Andrew O’Keefe founded “Hardwired Humans” to solve inner mammal problems in the workplace. He actually trains managers at the zoo!<br /><br />WHAT IS THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST?<br /><br />It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. <br /><br />Do you wonder what stimulates your happy brain chemicals- dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphin? Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. Our brain is designed to reward you with happy chemicals for steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them a lot. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can find new ways to feel good, wherever you are right now.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1931</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>chimpanzees,hr,humanresources,leadership,management</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e06505838f53ccdfde38cf453af26790.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Want to Be Perfect Someday or Better Now?</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/want-to-be-perfect-someday-or-better-now--16385687</link><description><![CDATA[Alison Task, life coach and author of Personal Revolution, chats with me about taking that next step. It's hard, but it's everything!<br /><br />WHAT IS THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST?<br /><br />It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. <br /><br />Do you wonder what stimulates your happy brain chemicals- dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphin? Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. Our brain is designed to reward you with happy chemicals for steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them a lot. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can find new ways to feel good, wherever you are right now.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/16385687</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2019 08:00:10 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/16385687/happy_brain_alison_task_mhnr_edit_12_4_18_4_35_pm.mp3" length="88599744" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Alison Task, life coach and author of Personal Revolution, chats with me about taking that next step. It's hard, but it's everything!&#13;
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It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Alison Task, life coach and author of Personal Revolution, chats with me about taking that next step. It's hard, but it's everything!<br /><br />WHAT IS THE HAPPY BRAIN PODCAST?<br /><br />It’s frank conversations between Loretta Breuning and real readers of her book, Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. <br /><br />Do you wonder what stimulates your happy brain chemicals- dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, endorphin? Read the book and send your questions to Dr. Breuning on the contact form at the Inner Mammal Institute at: InnerMammalInstitute.org. You may be a guest on the show yourself!<br /><br />The brain chemicals that make us feel good are inherited from earlier mammals. They evolved to do a job, not to make you feel good all the time. When you know the job each chemical does in the state of nature, your ups and downs make sense. More important, you can re-wire yourself to enjoy more of them in sustainable ways.<br /><br />But it’s hard. Our brain is designed to reward you with happy chemicals for steps that promote survival. But our brain defines survival in a quirky way: it cares about the survival of your genes and it relies on neural pathways built in youth. To make things even harder, our brain habituates to the rewards it has so you always have to do more to get more happy chemicals.<br /><br />We are not born with survival skills like our animal ancestors. Each newborn human wires itself from its own early experience. Happy chemicals are like paving on your neural pathways, wiring you to repeat behaviors that made you feel good before. This is why our urgent motivations don’t make sense to our verbal brain. It’s not easy being mammal!<br /><br />When you know how your brain works, you can find healthier ways to enjoy happy chemicals and relieve unhappy chemicals. You can build new neural pathways by feeding your brain new experiences. But you have to design the new experiences carefully and repeat them a lot. <br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has free resources to help you make peace with your inner mammal: videos, blogs, infographics, and podcasts. Dr. Breuning’s books illuminate the big picture and help you plot your course. You can find new ways to feel good, wherever you are right now.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2769</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,coaching,dopamine,jobs,neuroplasticity,oxytocin,pathways,serotonin,work</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e06505838f53ccdfde38cf453af26790.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Dopamine and the Joy of Discovery</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/dopamine-and-the-joy-of-discovery--15415483</link><description><![CDATA[Dopamine creates the feeling of excitement when you anticipate a new way to meet a need, but you have power over the way you define that.<br /><br />This podcast is a live call-in with Loretta Breuning, PhD, author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Questions? InnerMammalInstitute.org/podcast.<br /><br />Happiness is caused by four special brain chemicals: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. When you know how they work in animals, you can find your power over them in daily life.<br /><br />The happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward behaviors that promote survival in the state of nature. They are only released in short spurts, so you always have to do more to get more. This makes life frustrating!<br /><br />Our chemicals are controlled by neural pathways built from life experience. Neurons connect when your happy chemicals flow, which wires you to repeat behaviors that felt good before. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself, but it’s not easy. That’s why we keep discussing and asking questions.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has resources that help you make peace with your inner mammal: books, videos, blogs, graphics, and podcasts. You’ll find out what turns on your happy chemicals in the state of nature, and how you can turn them on today. InnerMammalInstitute.org<br /><br />It’s not easy being mammal! But you can build your power over your mammalian brain chemicals. Listen! Read! Join the conversation! Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/15415483</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2019 04:00:17 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/15415483/show_10744797_2018_05_10_02_17_33.mp3" length="37315468" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Dopamine creates the feeling of excitement when you anticipate a new way to meet a need, but you have power over the way you define that.&#13;
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This podcast is a live call-in with Loretta Breuning, PhD, author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Dopamine creates the feeling of excitement when you anticipate a new way to meet a need, but you have power over the way you define that.<br /><br />This podcast is a live call-in with Loretta Breuning, PhD, author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Questions? InnerMammalInstitute.org/podcast.<br /><br />Happiness is caused by four special brain chemicals: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. When you know how they work in animals, you can find your power over them in daily life.<br /><br />The happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward behaviors that promote survival in the state of nature. They are only released in short spurts, so you always have to do more to get more. This makes life frustrating!<br /><br />Our chemicals are controlled by neural pathways built from life experience. Neurons connect when your happy chemicals flow, which wires you to repeat behaviors that felt good before. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself, but it’s not easy. That’s why we keep discussing and asking questions.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has resources that help you make peace with your inner mammal: books, videos, blogs, graphics, and podcasts. You’ll find out what turns on your happy chemicals in the state of nature, and how you can turn them on today. InnerMammalInstitute.org<br /><br />It’s not easy being mammal! But you can build your power over your mammalian brain chemicals. Listen! Read! Join the conversation! Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2333</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>behavioral,brain,breuning,chemicals,dopamine,happiness,happy,health,inner,institute,joy,loretta,mammal,mammalian,mental,neurons,oxytocin,seratonin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e06505838f53ccdfde38cf453af26790.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Social Anxiety Solutions from “Too Nice” author Dr. Aziz</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/social-anxiety-solutions-from-too-nice-author-dr-aziz--17101728</link><description><![CDATA[The social-confidence strategies of Dr. Aziz fit so well with the Inner Mammal method, but I ask him a lot of hard questions!<br /><br />Loretta Breuning answers readers questions about the brain chemicals that make us feel good. If you have more questions, check out the Inner Mammal Institute, read Habits of a Happy Brain, and then contact Dr Breuning to ask your questions on the show!<br /><br />Happiness is caused by four special brain chemicals: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. When you know how they work in animals, you can find your power over them in daily life. The happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward behaviors that promote survival in the state of nature. They are only released in short spurts, so you always have to do more to get more. This makes life frustrating!<br /><br />Our chemicals are controlled by neural pathways built from life experience. Neurons connect when your happy chemicals flow, which wires you to repeat behaviors that felt good before. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself, but it’s not easy. That’s why we keep discussing and asking questions.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has resources that help you make peace with your inner mammal: books, videos, blogs, graphics, and podcasts. You’ll find out what turns on your happy chemicals in the state of nature, and how you can turn them on today. It’s not easy being mammal! But you can build your power over your mammalian brain chemicals.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/17101728</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2019 05:00:20 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/17101728/happy_brain_dr_aziz_nice_vs_not_nice_mhnr_edit_02_20_19.mp3" length="74894861" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The social-confidence strategies of Dr. Aziz fit so well with the Inner Mammal method, but I ask him a lot of hard questions!&#13;
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Loretta Breuning answers readers questions about the brain chemicals that make us feel good. If you have more questions,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The social-confidence strategies of Dr. Aziz fit so well with the Inner Mammal method, but I ask him a lot of hard questions!<br /><br />Loretta Breuning answers readers questions about the brain chemicals that make us feel good. If you have more questions, check out the Inner Mammal Institute, read Habits of a Happy Brain, and then contact Dr Breuning to ask your questions on the show!<br /><br />Happiness is caused by four special brain chemicals: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. When you know how they work in animals, you can find your power over them in daily life. The happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward behaviors that promote survival in the state of nature. They are only released in short spurts, so you always have to do more to get more. This makes life frustrating!<br /><br />Our chemicals are controlled by neural pathways built from life experience. Neurons connect when your happy chemicals flow, which wires you to repeat behaviors that felt good before. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself, but it’s not easy. That’s why we keep discussing and asking questions.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has resources that help you make peace with your inner mammal: books, videos, blogs, graphics, and podcasts. You’ll find out what turns on your happy chemicals in the state of nature, and how you can turn them on today. It’s not easy being mammal! But you can build your power over your mammalian brain chemicals.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2341</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>anxiety,authentic,authenticity,confidence,neuroplasticity,serotonin,socialanxiety</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/37fd8b7b1dd2d162678404ba627f02ad.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Food &amp; Happy Chemicals: Too much, Too little, Just Right</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/food-happy-chemicals-too-much-too-little-just-right--15415447</link><description><![CDATA[People hope to eat their way to happiness in different ways, but we’re better off understanding why our brain is so obsessed with food.<br /><br />Loretta Breuning answers readers questions about the brain chemicals that make us feel good. If you have more questions, check out the Inner Mammal Institute, read Habits of a Happy Brain, and then contact Dr Breuning to ask your questions on the show!<br /><br />Happiness is caused by four special brain chemicals: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. When you know how they work in animals, you can find your power over them in daily life. The happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward behaviors that promote survival in the state of nature. They are only released in short spurts, so you always have to do more to get more. This makes life frustrating!<br /><br />Our chemicals are controlled by neural pathways built from life experience. Neurons connect when your happy chemicals flow, which wires you to repeat behaviors that felt good before. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself, but it’s not easy. That’s why we keep discussing and asking questions.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has resources that help you make peace with your inner mammal: books, videos, blogs, graphics, and podcasts. You’ll find out what turns on your happy chemicals in the state of nature, and how you can turn them on today. It’s not easy being mammal! But you can build your power over your mammalian brain chemicals.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/15415447</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2019 07:00:09 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/15415447/show_10867003_2018_07_05_16_49_18.mp3" length="36618318" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>People hope to eat their way to happiness in different ways, but we’re better off understanding why our brain is so obsessed with food.&#13;
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Loretta Breuning answers readers questions about the brain chemicals that make us feel good. If you have more...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[People hope to eat their way to happiness in different ways, but we’re better off understanding why our brain is so obsessed with food.<br /><br />Loretta Breuning answers readers questions about the brain chemicals that make us feel good. If you have more questions, check out the Inner Mammal Institute, read Habits of a Happy Brain, and then contact Dr Breuning to ask your questions on the show!<br /><br />Happiness is caused by four special brain chemicals: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. When you know how they work in animals, you can find your power over them in daily life. The happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward behaviors that promote survival in the state of nature. They are only released in short spurts, so you always have to do more to get more. This makes life frustrating!<br /><br />Our chemicals are controlled by neural pathways built from life experience. Neurons connect when your happy chemicals flow, which wires you to repeat behaviors that felt good before. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself, but it’s not easy. That’s why we keep discussing and asking questions.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has resources that help you make peace with your inner mammal: books, videos, blogs, graphics, and podcasts. You’ll find out what turns on your happy chemicals in the state of nature, and how you can turn them on today. It’s not easy being mammal! But you can build your power over your mammalian brain chemicals.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2289</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>behavioral,brain,breuning,chemicals,dopamine,endorphin,food,happy,health,inner,institute,loretta,mammal,mental,neurons,obsession,oxytocin,serotonin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/37fd8b7b1dd2d162678404ba627f02ad.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Dopamine and Procrastination</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/dopamine-and-procrastination--15415405</link><description><![CDATA[Giving up can be a fear of criticism or a good decision about the best way to invest your energy; here’s how to tell the difference, and some great listener questions about self-confidence, status, and compassion.<br /><br />This podcast is a live call-in with Loretta Breuning, PhD, author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Questions? InnerMammalInstitute.org/podcast.<br /><br />Happiness is caused by four special brain chemicals: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. When you know how they work in animals, you can find your power over them in daily life. The happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward behaviors that promote survival in the state of nature. They are only released in short spurts, so you always have to do more to get more. This makes life frustrating!<br /><br />Our chemicals are controlled by neural pathways built from life experience. Neurons connect when your happy chemicals flow, which wires you to repeat behaviors that felt good before. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself, but it’s not easy. That’s why we keep discussing and asking questions.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has resources that help you make peace with your inner mammal: books, videos, blogs, graphics, and podcasts. You’ll find out what turns on your happy chemicals in the state of nature, and how you can turn them on today. It’s not easy being mammal! But you can build your power over your mammalian brain chemicals.<br /><br />Listen! Read! Join the conversation! Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/15415405</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2019 07:00:20 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/15415405/show_10839257_2018_06_18_22_38_56.mp3" length="45512902" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Giving up can be a fear of criticism or a good decision about the best way to invest your energy; here’s how to tell the difference, and some great listener questions about self-confidence, status, and compassion.&#13;
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This podcast is a live call-in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Giving up can be a fear of criticism or a good decision about the best way to invest your energy; here’s how to tell the difference, and some great listener questions about self-confidence, status, and compassion.<br /><br />This podcast is a live call-in with Loretta Breuning, PhD, author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Questions? InnerMammalInstitute.org/podcast.<br /><br />Happiness is caused by four special brain chemicals: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. When you know how they work in animals, you can find your power over them in daily life. The happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward behaviors that promote survival in the state of nature. They are only released in short spurts, so you always have to do more to get more. This makes life frustrating!<br /><br />Our chemicals are controlled by neural pathways built from life experience. Neurons connect when your happy chemicals flow, which wires you to repeat behaviors that felt good before. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself, but it’s not easy. That’s why we keep discussing and asking questions.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has resources that help you make peace with your inner mammal: books, videos, blogs, graphics, and podcasts. You’ll find out what turns on your happy chemicals in the state of nature, and how you can turn them on today. It’s not easy being mammal! But you can build your power over your mammalian brain chemicals.<br /><br />Listen! Read! Join the conversation! Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2845</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>behavioral,brain,breuning,chemicals,dopamine,endorphin,happy,health,inner,institute,loretta,mammal,mental,oxytocin,procrastinating,procrastination,serotonin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/e06505838f53ccdfde38cf453af26790.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Political Correctness About Happy Chemicals</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/political-correctness-about-happy-chemicals--15415388</link><description><![CDATA[The academic view of the brain is filtered through the presumption that effortless happiness is the state of nature and “our society” is the cause of all unhappiness. <br /><br />This podcast is a live call-in with Loretta Breuning, PhD, author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Questions? InnerMammalInstitute.org/podcast.<br /><br />Happiness is caused by four special brain chemicals: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. When you know how they work in animals, you can find your power over them in daily life. The happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward behaviors that promote survival in the state of nature. They are only released in short spurts, so you always have to do more to get more. This makes life frustrating!<br /><br />Our chemicals are controlled by neural pathways built from life experience. Neurons connect when your happy chemicals flow, which wires you to repeat behaviors that felt good before. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself, but it’s not easy. That’s why we keep discussing and asking questions.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has resources that help you make peace with your inner mammal: books, videos, blogs, graphics, and podcasts. You’ll find out what turns on your happy chemicals in the state of nature, and how you can turn them on today. It’s not easy being mammal! But you can build your power over your mammalian brain chemicals.<br /><br />Listen! Read! Join the conversation! Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/15415388</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2018 05:00:21 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/15415388/show_10839245_2018_06_18_22_33_53.mp3" length="45389604" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The academic view of the brain is filtered through the presumption that effortless happiness is the state of nature and “our society” is the cause of all unhappiness. &#13;
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This podcast is a live call-in with Loretta Breuning, PhD, author of Habits of a...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The academic view of the brain is filtered through the presumption that effortless happiness is the state of nature and “our society” is the cause of all unhappiness. <br /><br />This podcast is a live call-in with Loretta Breuning, PhD, author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Questions? InnerMammalInstitute.org/podcast.<br /><br />Happiness is caused by four special brain chemicals: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. When you know how they work in animals, you can find your power over them in daily life. The happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward behaviors that promote survival in the state of nature. They are only released in short spurts, so you always have to do more to get more. This makes life frustrating!<br /><br />Our chemicals are controlled by neural pathways built from life experience. Neurons connect when your happy chemicals flow, which wires you to repeat behaviors that felt good before. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself, but it’s not easy. That’s why we keep discussing and asking questions.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has resources that help you make peace with your inner mammal: books, videos, blogs, graphics, and podcasts. You’ll find out what turns on your happy chemicals in the state of nature, and how you can turn them on today. It’s not easy being mammal! But you can build your power over your mammalian brain chemicals.<br /><br />Listen! Read! Join the conversation! Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2837</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>behavioral,brain,breuning,chemicals,correctness,denial,dopamine,endorphin,happiness,health,inner,institute,loretta,mammal,mental,oxytocin,political,serotonin,society</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/37fd8b7b1dd2d162678404ba627f02ad.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>The Neural Pathways That Control Your Brain Chemicals</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/the-neural-pathways-that-control-your-brain-chemicals--15415362</link><description><![CDATA[The roots trip I took to explore my early wiring, and questions about building a strong spine vs external armor when dealing with people who get on your nerves.<br /><br />This podcast is a live call-in with Loretta Breuning, PhD, author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Questions? InnerMammalInstitute.org/podcast.<br /><br />Happiness is caused by four special brain chemicals: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. When you know how they work in animals, you can find your power over them in daily life. The happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward behaviors that promote survival in the state of nature. They are only released in short spurts, so you always have to do more to get more. This makes life frustrating!<br /><br />Our chemicals are controlled by neural pathways built from life experience. Neurons connect when your happy chemicals flow, which wires you to repeat behaviors that felt good before. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself, but it’s not easy. That’s why we keep discussing and asking questions.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has resources that help you make peace with your inner mammal: books, videos, blogs, graphics, and podcasts. You’ll find out what turns on your happy chemicals in the state of nature, and how you can turn them on today. It’s not easy being mammal! But you can build your power over your mammalian brain chemicals.<br /><br />Listen! Read! Join the conversation! Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/15415362</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2018 04:00:05 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/15415362/show_10839295_2018_06_18_22_53_42.mp3" length="40803343" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The roots trip I took to explore my early wiring, and questions about building a strong spine vs external armor when dealing with people who get on your nerves.&#13;
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This podcast is a live call-in with Loretta Breuning, PhD, author of Habits of a Happy...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The roots trip I took to explore my early wiring, and questions about building a strong spine vs external armor when dealing with people who get on your nerves.<br /><br />This podcast is a live call-in with Loretta Breuning, PhD, author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Questions? InnerMammalInstitute.org/podcast.<br /><br />Happiness is caused by four special brain chemicals: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. When you know how they work in animals, you can find your power over them in daily life. The happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward behaviors that promote survival in the state of nature. They are only released in short spurts, so you always have to do more to get more. This makes life frustrating!<br /><br />Our chemicals are controlled by neural pathways built from life experience. Neurons connect when your happy chemicals flow, which wires you to repeat behaviors that felt good before. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself, but it’s not easy. That’s why we keep discussing and asking questions.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has resources that help you make peace with your inner mammal: books, videos, blogs, graphics, and podcasts. You’ll find out what turns on your happy chemicals in the state of nature, and how you can turn them on today. It’s not easy being mammal! But you can build your power over your mammalian brain chemicals.<br /><br />Listen! Read! Join the conversation! Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2551</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>behavioral,brain,breuning,chemicals,dopamine,early,endorphin,happy,health,inner,institute,loretta,mammal,mammals,mental,nerves,oxytocin,serotonin,wiring</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/37fd8b7b1dd2d162678404ba627f02ad.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Cortisol, Mortality, and Legacy</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/cortisol-mortality-and-legacy--15415325</link><description><![CDATA[The mammal brain focuses on the survival of your unique individual essence, so it is terrified by the human brain’s awareness of mortality until you soothe it with thoughts of a legacy.   <br /><br />This podcast is a live call-in with Loretta Breuning, PhD, author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Questions? InnerMammalInstitute.org/podcast.<br /><br />Happiness is caused by four special brain chemicals: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. When you know how they work in animals, you can find your power over them in daily life. The happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward behaviors that promote survival in the state of nature. They are only released in short spurts, so you always have to do more to get more. This makes life frustrating!<br /><br />Our chemicals are controlled by neural pathways built from life experience. Neurons connect when your happy chemicals flow, which wires you to repeat behaviors that felt good before. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself, but it’s not easy. That’s why we keep discussing and asking questions.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has resources that help you make peace with your inner mammal: books, videos, blogs, graphics, and podcasts. You’ll find out what turns on your happy chemicals in the state of nature, and how you can turn them on today. It’s not easy being mammal! But you can build your power over your mammalian brain chemicals.<br /><br />Listen! Read! Join the conversation! Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/15415325</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2018 04:30:06 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/15415325/show_10840821_2018_06_19_19_25_33.mp3" length="27989127" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>The mammal brain focuses on the survival of your unique individual essence, so it is terrified by the human brain’s awareness of mortality until you soothe it with thoughts of a legacy.   &#13;
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This podcast is a live call-in with Loretta Breuning, PhD,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[The mammal brain focuses on the survival of your unique individual essence, so it is terrified by the human brain’s awareness of mortality until you soothe it with thoughts of a legacy.   <br /><br />This podcast is a live call-in with Loretta Breuning, PhD, author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Questions? InnerMammalInstitute.org/podcast.<br /><br />Happiness is caused by four special brain chemicals: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. When you know how they work in animals, you can find your power over them in daily life. The happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward behaviors that promote survival in the state of nature. They are only released in short spurts, so you always have to do more to get more. This makes life frustrating!<br /><br />Our chemicals are controlled by neural pathways built from life experience. Neurons connect when your happy chemicals flow, which wires you to repeat behaviors that felt good before. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself, but it’s not easy. That’s why we keep discussing and asking questions.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has resources that help you make peace with your inner mammal: books, videos, blogs, graphics, and podcasts. You’ll find out what turns on your happy chemicals in the state of nature, and how you can turn them on today. It’s not easy being mammal! But you can build your power over your mammalian brain chemicals.<br /><br />Listen! Read! Join the conversation! Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1750</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,breuning,chemicals,cortisol,dopamine,endorphin,happy,inner,institute,loretta,mammal,oxytocin,serotonin,survival,training</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/37fd8b7b1dd2d162678404ba627f02ad.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Mirror Neuron and Your Happy Chemicals</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/mirror-neuron-and-your-happy-chemicals--15415283</link><description><![CDATA[Your mirror neurons activate when you see someone else enjoy a reward or risk harm; thus, your happy circuits are influenced by those around you, and your happy circuits were shaped by those you mirrored in youth.<br /><br />This podcast is a live call-in with Loretta Breuning, PhD, author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Questions? InnerMammalInstitute.org/podcast.<br /><br />Happiness is caused by four special brain chemicals: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. When you know how they work in animals, you can find your power over them in daily life. The happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward behaviors that promote survival in the state of nature. They are only released in short spurts, so you always have to do more to get more. This makes life frustrating!<br /><br />Our chemicals are controlled by neural pathways built from life experience. Neurons connect when your happy chemicals flow, which wires you to repeat behaviors that felt good before. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself, but it’s not easy. That’s why we keep discussing and asking questions.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has resources that help you make peace with your inner mammal: books, videos, blogs, graphics, and podcasts. You’ll find out what turns on your happy chemicals in the state of nature, and how you can turn them on today. It’s not easy being mammal! But you can build your power over your mammalian brain chemicals.<br /><br />Listen! Read! Join the conversation! Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/15415283</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2018 04:00:06 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/15415283/show_10795403_2018_05_25_22_50_47.mp3" length="33262518" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Your mirror neurons activate when you see someone else enjoy a reward or risk harm; thus, your happy circuits are influenced by those around you, and your happy circuits were shaped by those you mirrored in youth.&#13;
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This podcast is a live call-in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Your mirror neurons activate when you see someone else enjoy a reward or risk harm; thus, your happy circuits are influenced by those around you, and your happy circuits were shaped by those you mirrored in youth.<br /><br />This podcast is a live call-in with Loretta Breuning, PhD, author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Questions? InnerMammalInstitute.org/podcast.<br /><br />Happiness is caused by four special brain chemicals: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. When you know how they work in animals, you can find your power over them in daily life. The happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward behaviors that promote survival in the state of nature. They are only released in short spurts, so you always have to do more to get more. This makes life frustrating!<br /><br />Our chemicals are controlled by neural pathways built from life experience. Neurons connect when your happy chemicals flow, which wires you to repeat behaviors that felt good before. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself, but it’s not easy. That’s why we keep discussing and asking questions.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has resources that help you make peace with your inner mammal: books, videos, blogs, graphics, and podcasts. You’ll find out what turns on your happy chemicals in the state of nature, and how you can turn them on today. It’s not easy being mammal! But you can build your power over your mammalian brain chemicals.<br /><br />Listen! Read! Join the conversation! Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2079</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain,chemicals,dopamine,endorphin,happy,innermammalinstitute,lorettabreuning,mammilian,mirror,neuron,oxytocin,serotonin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/37fd8b7b1dd2d162678404ba627f02ad.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Oxytocin and Special Guest Paul Zak</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/oxytocin-and-special-guest-paul-zak--15413173</link><description><![CDATA[Research perspectives on boosting oxytocin with Paul Zak, Center for Neuroeconomic Studies with Loretta Breuning, PhD.<br /><br />Happiness is caused by four special brain chemicals: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. When you know how they work in animals, you can find your power over them in daily life. The happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward behaviors that promote survival in the state of nature. They are only released in short spurts, so you always have to do more to get more.<br /><br />Our chemicals are controlled by neural pathways built from life experience. Neurons connect when your happy chemicals flow, which wires you to repeat behaviors that felt good before. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself, but it’s not easy. That’s why we keep discussing and asking questions.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has resources that help you make peace with your inner mammal: books, videos, blogs, graphics, and podcasts. You’ll find out what turns on your happy chemicals in the state of nature, and how you can turn them on today. It’s not easy being mammal! But you can build your power over your mammalian brain chemicals.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/happybrain/2018/08/01/oxytocin-and-special-guest-paul-zak</guid><pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2018 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/15413173/oxytocin_and_special_guest_paul_zak.mp3" length="37189250" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Research perspectives on boosting oxytocin with Paul Zak, Center for Neuroeconomic Studies with Loretta Breuning, PhD.&#13;
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Happiness is caused by four special brain chemicals: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. When you know how they work in...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Research perspectives on boosting oxytocin with Paul Zak, Center for Neuroeconomic Studies with Loretta Breuning, PhD.<br /><br />Happiness is caused by four special brain chemicals: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. When you know how they work in animals, you can find your power over them in daily life. The happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward behaviors that promote survival in the state of nature. They are only released in short spurts, so you always have to do more to get more.<br /><br />Our chemicals are controlled by neural pathways built from life experience. Neurons connect when your happy chemicals flow, which wires you to repeat behaviors that felt good before. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself, but it’s not easy. That’s why we keep discussing and asking questions.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has resources that help you make peace with your inner mammal: books, videos, blogs, graphics, and podcasts. You’ll find out what turns on your happy chemicals in the state of nature, and how you can turn them on today. It’s not easy being mammal! But you can build your power over your mammalian brain chemicals.<br /><br />Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2325</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>dopamine,endorphin,happiness,happy brain chemicals,inner mammal institute,neuroeconomic,oxytocin,paul j. zak,serotonin,trust</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/37fd8b7b1dd2d162678404ba627f02ad.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>When Your Happy Chemicals Droop</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/when-your-happy-chemicals-droop--15413175</link><description><![CDATA[Happy chemicals naturally droop after they spurt. Questions about the “after the party” letdown feeling, about food obsessions, and about classical virtues.<br /><br />This podcast is a live call-in with Loretta Breuning, PhD, author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Questions? InnerMammalInstitute.org/podcast.<br /><br />Happiness is caused by four special brain chemicals: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. When you know how they work in animals, you can find your power over them in daily life.<br /><br />The happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward behaviors that promote survival in the state of nature. They are only released in short spurts, so you always have to do more to get more. This makes life frustrating!<br /><br />Our chemicals are controlled by neural pathways built from life experience. Neurons connect when your happy chemicals flow, which wires you to repeat behaviors that felt good before. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself, but it’s not easy. That’s why we keep discussing and asking questions.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has resources that help you make peace with your inner mammal: books, videos, blogs, graphics, and podcasts. You’ll find out what turns on your happy chemicals in the state of nature, and how you can turn them on today. InnerMammalInstitute.org<br /><br />It’s not easy being mammal! But you can build your power over your mammalian brain chemicals. Listen! Read! Join the conversation! Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/happybrain/2018/07/01/when-your-happy-chemicals-droop</guid><pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2018 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/15413175/when_your_happy_chemicals_droop.mp3" length="44516905" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Happy chemicals naturally droop after they spurt. Questions about the “after the party” letdown feeling, about food obsessions, and about classical virtues.

This podcast is a live call-in with Loretta Breuning, PhD, author of Habits of a Happy Brain:...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Happy chemicals naturally droop after they spurt. Questions about the “after the party” letdown feeling, about food obsessions, and about classical virtues.<br /><br />This podcast is a live call-in with Loretta Breuning, PhD, author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Questions? InnerMammalInstitute.org/podcast.<br /><br />Happiness is caused by four special brain chemicals: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. When you know how they work in animals, you can find your power over them in daily life.<br /><br />The happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward behaviors that promote survival in the state of nature. They are only released in short spurts, so you always have to do more to get more. This makes life frustrating!<br /><br />Our chemicals are controlled by neural pathways built from life experience. Neurons connect when your happy chemicals flow, which wires you to repeat behaviors that felt good before. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself, but it’s not easy. That’s why we keep discussing and asking questions.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has resources that help you make peace with your inner mammal: books, videos, blogs, graphics, and podcasts. You’ll find out what turns on your happy chemicals in the state of nature, and how you can turn them on today. InnerMammalInstitute.org<br /><br />It’s not easy being mammal! But you can build your power over your mammalian brain chemicals. Listen! Read! Join the conversation! Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2783</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>inner mammal institute,letdown,loretta breuning,neurons,oxytocin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/37fd8b7b1dd2d162678404ba627f02ad.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Compassion and Happy Chemicals</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/compassion-and-happy-chemicals--15413177</link><description><![CDATA[“Compassion” is a word often used to point blame and avoid responsibility; here’s my take on the problem and my answer to readers’ questions about how to deal with negative people.<br /><br />This podcast is a live call-in with Loretta Breuning, PhD, author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Questions? InnerMammalInstitute.org/podcast.<br /><br />Happiness is caused by four special brain chemicals: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. When you know how they work in animals, you can find your power over them in daily life. The happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward behaviors that promote survival in the state of nature. They are only released in short spurts, so you always have to do more to get more. This makes life frustrating!<br /><br />Our chemicals are controlled by neural pathways built from life experience. Neurons connect when your happy chemicals flow, which wires you to repeat behaviors that felt good before. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself, but it’s not easy. That’s why we keep discussing and asking questions.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has resources that help you make peace with your inner mammal: books, videos, blogs, graphics, and podcasts. You’ll find out what turns on your happy chemicals in the state of nature, and how you can turn them on today. It’s not easy being mammal! But you can build your power over your mammalian brain chemicals.<br /><br />Listen! Read! Join the conversation! Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/happybrain/2018/05/31/compassion-and-happy-chemicals</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2018 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/15413177/compassion_and_happy_chemicals.mp3" length="36071627" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>“Compassion” is a word often used to point blame and avoid responsibility; here’s my take on the problem and my answer to readers’ questions about how to deal with negative people.

This podcast is a live call-in with Loretta Breuning, PhD, author of...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[“Compassion” is a word often used to point blame and avoid responsibility; here’s my take on the problem and my answer to readers’ questions about how to deal with negative people.<br /><br />This podcast is a live call-in with Loretta Breuning, PhD, author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Questions? InnerMammalInstitute.org/podcast.<br /><br />Happiness is caused by four special brain chemicals: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. When you know how they work in animals, you can find your power over them in daily life. The happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward behaviors that promote survival in the state of nature. They are only released in short spurts, so you always have to do more to get more. This makes life frustrating!<br /><br />Our chemicals are controlled by neural pathways built from life experience. Neurons connect when your happy chemicals flow, which wires you to repeat behaviors that felt good before. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself, but it’s not easy. That’s why we keep discussing and asking questions.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has resources that help you make peace with your inner mammal: books, videos, blogs, graphics, and podcasts. You’ll find out what turns on your happy chemicals in the state of nature, and how you can turn them on today. It’s not easy being mammal! But you can build your power over your mammalian brain chemicals.<br /><br />Listen! Read! Join the conversation! Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2255</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>brain chemicals,dopamine,endorphin,oxytocin,serotonin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/37fd8b7b1dd2d162678404ba627f02ad.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Oxytocin: Acceptance and Belonging</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/oxytocin-acceptance-and-belonging--15413180</link><description><![CDATA[Oxytocin causes the good feeling of acceptance and belonging, but that animal urge for safety in numbers causes the frustrating in-group/out-group dynamics of daily life, such as gossip.<br /><br />This podcast is a live call-in with Loretta Breuning, PhD, author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Questions? InnerMammalInstitute.org/podcast.<br /><br />Happiness is caused by four special brain chemicals: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. When you know how they work in animals, you can find your power over them in daily life.<br /><br />The happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward behaviors that promote survival in the state of nature. They are only released in short spurts, so you always have to do more to get more. This makes life frustrating!<br /><br />Our chemicals are controlled by neural pathways built from life experience. Neurons connect when your happy chemicals flow, which wires you to repeat behaviors that felt good before. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself, but it’s not easy. That’s why we keep discussing and asking questions.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has resources that help you make peace with your inner mammal: books, videos, blogs, graphics, and podcasts. You’ll find out what turns on your happy chemicals in the state of nature, and how you can turn them on today. InnerMammalInstitute.org<br /><br />It’s not easy being mammal! But you can build your power over your mammalian brain chemicals. Listen! Read! Join the conversation! Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/happybrain/2018/05/11/oxytocin-acceptance-and-belonging</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2018 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/15413180/oxytocin_acceptance_and_belonging.mp3" length="44121098" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Oxytocin causes the good feeling of acceptance and belonging, but that animal urge for safety in numbers causes the frustrating in-group/out-group dynamics of daily life, such as gossip.

This podcast is a live call-in with Loretta Breuning, PhD,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Oxytocin causes the good feeling of acceptance and belonging, but that animal urge for safety in numbers causes the frustrating in-group/out-group dynamics of daily life, such as gossip.<br /><br />This podcast is a live call-in with Loretta Breuning, PhD, author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Questions? InnerMammalInstitute.org/podcast.<br /><br />Happiness is caused by four special brain chemicals: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. When you know how they work in animals, you can find your power over them in daily life.<br /><br />The happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward behaviors that promote survival in the state of nature. They are only released in short spurts, so you always have to do more to get more. This makes life frustrating!<br /><br />Our chemicals are controlled by neural pathways built from life experience. Neurons connect when your happy chemicals flow, which wires you to repeat behaviors that felt good before. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself, but it’s not easy. That’s why we keep discussing and asking questions.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has resources that help you make peace with your inner mammal: books, videos, blogs, graphics, and podcasts. You’ll find out what turns on your happy chemicals in the state of nature, and how you can turn them on today. InnerMammalInstitute.org<br /><br />It’s not easy being mammal! But you can build your power over your mammalian brain chemicals. Listen! Read! Join the conversation! Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2758</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>endorphin,endorphins,loretta breuning,oxytocin,seratonin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/37fd8b7b1dd2d162678404ba627f02ad.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Cortisol and Clutter</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/cortisol-and-clutter--15413179</link><description><![CDATA[Cortisol can spiral when you have many triggers at once – like the time I was triggered by the clutter around my house.<br /><br />This podcast is a live call-in with Loretta Breuning, PhD, author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Questions? InnerMammalInstitute.org/podcast.<br /><br />Happiness is caused by four special brain chemicals: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. When you know how they work in animals, you can find your power over them in daily life.<br /><br />The happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward behaviors that promote survival in the state of nature. They are only released in short spurts, so you always have to do more to get more. This makes life frustrating!<br /><br />Our chemicals are controlled by neural pathways built from life experience. Neurons connect when your happy chemicals flow, which wires you to repeat behaviors that felt good before. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself, but it’s not easy. That’s why we keep discussing and asking questions.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has resources that help you make peace with your inner mammal: books, videos, blogs, graphics, and podcasts. You’ll find out what turns on your happy chemicals in the state of nature, and how you can turn them on today. InnerMammalInstitute.org<br /><br />It’s not easy being mammal! But you can build your power over your mammalian brain chemicals. Listen! Read! Join the conversation! Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/happybrain/2018/05/11/cortisol-and-clutter</guid><pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2018 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/15413179/cortisol_and_clutter.mp3" length="41278975" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Cortisol can spiral when you have many triggers at once – like the time I was triggered by the clutter around my house.

This podcast is a live call-in with Loretta Breuning, PhD, author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Cortisol can spiral when you have many triggers at once – like the time I was triggered by the clutter around my house.<br /><br />This podcast is a live call-in with Loretta Breuning, PhD, author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Questions? InnerMammalInstitute.org/podcast.<br /><br />Happiness is caused by four special brain chemicals: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. When you know how they work in animals, you can find your power over them in daily life.<br /><br />The happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward behaviors that promote survival in the state of nature. They are only released in short spurts, so you always have to do more to get more. This makes life frustrating!<br /><br />Our chemicals are controlled by neural pathways built from life experience. Neurons connect when your happy chemicals flow, which wires you to repeat behaviors that felt good before. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself, but it’s not easy. That’s why we keep discussing and asking questions.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has resources that help you make peace with your inner mammal: books, videos, blogs, graphics, and podcasts. You’ll find out what turns on your happy chemicals in the state of nature, and how you can turn them on today. InnerMammalInstitute.org<br /><br />It’s not easy being mammal! But you can build your power over your mammalian brain chemicals. Listen! Read! Join the conversation! Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2580</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>cortisol,endorphin,endorphins,oxytocin,seratonin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/37fd8b7b1dd2d162678404ba627f02ad.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>Serotonin and Competitiveness</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/serotonin-and-competitiveness--15413181</link><description><![CDATA[Serotonin creates the feeling of social importance, so how does it affect competitiveness at work?<br /><br />This podcast is a live call-in with Loretta Breuning, PhD, author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Questions? InnerMammalInstitute.org/podcast.<br /><br />Happiness is caused by four special brain chemicals: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. When you know how they work in animals, you can find your power over them in daily life.<br /><br />The happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward behaviors that promote survival in the state of nature. They are only released in short spurts, so you always have to do more to get more. This makes life frustrating!<br /><br />Our chemicals are controlled by neural pathways built from life experience. Neurons connect when your happy chemicals flow, which wires you to repeat behaviors that felt good before. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself, but it’s not easy. That’s why we keep discussing and asking questions.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has resources that help you make peace with your inner mammal: books, videos, blogs, graphics, and podcasts. You’ll find out what turns on your happy chemicals in the state of nature, and how you can turn them on today. InnerMammalInstitute.org<br /><br />It’s not easy being mammal! But you can build your power over your mammalian brain chemicals. Listen! Read! Join the conversation! Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/happybrain/2018/04/26/serotonin-and-competitiveness</guid><pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2018 16:30:00 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/15413181/serotonin_and_competitiveness.mp3" length="37739697" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>MHNR Network, LLC</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Serotonin creates the feeling of social importance, so how does it affect competitiveness at work?

This podcast is a live call-in with Loretta Breuning, PhD, author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine,...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Serotonin creates the feeling of social importance, so how does it affect competitiveness at work?<br /><br />This podcast is a live call-in with Loretta Breuning, PhD, author of Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain your brain to boost your serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin and endorphin levels. Questions? InnerMammalInstitute.org/podcast.<br /><br />Happiness is caused by four special brain chemicals: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and endorphin. When you know how they work in animals, you can find your power over them in daily life.<br /><br />The happy chemicals are not designed to flow all the time for no reason. They evolved to reward behaviors that promote survival in the state of nature. They are only released in short spurts, so you always have to do more to get more. This makes life frustrating!<br /><br />Our chemicals are controlled by neural pathways built from life experience. Neurons connect when your happy chemicals flow, which wires you to repeat behaviors that felt good before. Fortunately, you can re-wire yourself, but it’s not easy. That’s why we keep discussing and asking questions.<br /><br />The Inner Mammal Institute has resources that help you make peace with your inner mammal: books, videos, blogs, graphics, and podcasts. You’ll find out what turns on your happy chemicals in the state of nature, and how you can turn them on today. InnerMammalInstitute.org<br /><br />It’s not easy being mammal! But you can build your power over your mammalian brain chemicals. Listen! Read! Join the conversation! Music from Sonatina Soleil by W.M. Sharp. Hear more of it at InnerMammalInstitute.org/musicbywmsharp.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>2359</itunes:duration><itunes:keywords>dopamine,loretta breuning,neurons,oxytocin,serotonin</itunes:keywords><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/37fd8b7b1dd2d162678404ba627f02ad.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item></channel></rss>
