Meet Your Happy Chemicals: Dopamine, Endorphin, Oxytocin, Serotonin

big burst of cortisol is what we call “fear.” Small drips of cortisol are “anxiety” or “stress.” These bad feelings tell you you’re in immediate danger of pain, and your cortex tries to figure out what the danger is. Your reptile brain can’t say why it released the cortisol. It just responds when electricity flows down a pathway you connected in the past. You built those pathways from real experience, so the danger feels real to you. You want to avoid stress, but you want to avoid harm even more

you expected to live at that level of excitement forever, you would be disappointed.

Your cortex sees the world as a chaos of raw detail until your limbic system labels things as good for you or bad for you.

our brain rewards you with good feelings when you do something good for your survival.

design today if you started from

joy of finding what you seek

being respected by others

feeling of being safe with others

oblivion that masks pain

sees something good for your survival.