KNOW YOUR FEEL – GOOD CHEMICALS

Let’s hustle and bustle into a neuro- chemistry lesson . Grab your snorkelling gear, prepping yourself for a big bomb into the feel-good chemical pool.

FIRST, SCROLL DOWN TO MEET YOUR FEEL-GOOD CHEMICALS!

KNOW YOUR FEEL – GOOD CHEMICALS

Let’s hustle and bustle into a neuro- chemistry lesson . Grab your snorkelling gear, prepping yourself for a big bomb into the feel-good chemical pool.

FIRST, SCROLL DOWN TO MEET YOUR FEEL-GOOD CHEMICALS!

Substances ☹☹

‘What ever goes up, comes back down’ – Substances provide certain feel-good chemicals to explode into action by stimulating our brain chemistry with artificial highs. Think of feel – good chemicals as light switches, switching on through feelings created or rewards we generate naturally. Check out a substance and its artificial impact on your mental health.

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Social Media ☹☺

Hustling on social feed is real, we’ll do anything for a couple of ‘likes’ in the bank. #like4like

Why are we seeing an increase in young people’s mental health in modern day times?! The connection between feel-good chemicals & social media has a big question mark. Time to get Sherlock Holmes on the case to detect a few suspicious and suspect clues.

Exercise☺☺

Our unprescribed antidote! It’s foundational growth and development on the state of mind deserves more respect. Exercise is the master mind stimulator and energy channeller to put down any anxious or depressive stress – RIGHT! Feel-good chemical releases post workout should be knighted by the king for their services to the mental state of mind.

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Music☺☺

The powerhouse of beats, rhythm, vocal chord’s and togetherness. Music flirts with feel-good chemicals creating uplifting emotions, fuelling motivation, mental performance and therapeutic releases. Studies reveal which feel-good chemicals we induce to the sound of the beat.

‘REWARD & PLEASURE CHEMICAL’

Dopamine operates on reward by releasing pleasure to the brain which includes motivation and satisfaction. Dopamine also increases mental performance by enhancing productivity and concentration levels to our brain. It feels good because it’s ‘pleasure’ therefore dopamine can lead to negative addictions and really poor mind control through artificial highs from substances, social media, gaming and gambling. Dopamine does not make us happy it makes us want to do things associated with pleasure. Natural healthy highs of dopamine can offer a very productive lifestyle, healthy highs include exercise, daily to do lists, small achievements, music response, pleasures of foods we enjoy. We can also increase levels of dopamine naturally by being a go-getter in your daily life and flooding your brain with dopamine regularly by setting goals and achieving them – No matter how small or big you will feel satisfaction and motivation to achieve more.

‘MOOD STABILISER & SELF -ESTEEM’

Serotonin has many complex roles and functions on the human body, in this instance serotonin is regarded as the ‘top dog’ of feel- good chemicals for the general feeling of ‘happiness & contentment in life’. It causes the feeling of safety calmness, happiness and self-confidence with the stability it places in your life. Deficiency causes low self-esteem, obsessive thoughts, compulsive behaviour, aggressiveness and depressive thoughts. Science has proved natural healthy highs from exercise routines positively increase serotonin levels. Feelings we may experience:

‘Social Network & Love Hormone’

Oxytocin is developed through positive social interactions; this helps build a bridge of emotional communication between individuals and generates a feeling of trust. Oxytocin also helps generate a sense of belonging and identity within ourselves, which theoretically speaking makes sense as to why we feel connected through western social experiences like fashion trends, music and sport club following, etc. Although research is not clear enough yet, studies suggest oxytocin spurts are triggered during emotional peak moments in sports clubs, music events, group workouts and similar forms of togetherness. Positive social connections such as this are seen frequently. Nature created oxytocin because people would not survive alone without other people. Nature created it so that we gather in groups, we create communities. It has been created for our survival, and is a powerful evolutionary chemical. How does Oxytocin benefit us?

‘Pain Relief Euphoria’

Free morphine hit? You got to be kidding me?! The name Endorphin translates into “self-produced morphine.” It relieves the body from mental/emotional pain. This is where we get a bit dazed & confused in the fog of emotion. Its role in relieving emotional pain cover sadness, worry, anger, stress or negative feelings. For example, if you feel low, stressed out or in a depressive state of mind a challenging gym workout working past your bodies pain threshold places a positive perspective moments after.

KNOW YOUR FEEL – GOOD CHEMICALS

FIRST, SCROLL DOWN TO MEET YOUR FEEL-GOOD CHEMICALS!

KNOW YOUR FEEL – GOOD CHEMICALS

FIRST, SCROLL DOWN TO MEET YOUR FEEL-GOOD CHEMICALS!

NEGATIVE VS POSITIVE HIGHS

Substances ☹☹

Social Media ☹☺

Exercise☺☺

Music☺☺

WHEN IN ROME, LET’S ROAM! MEET YOUR FEEL-GOOD CHEMICALS ……

DOPAMINE

‘REWARD & PLEASURE CHEMICAL’

SEROTONIN

‘MOOD STABILISER & SELF -ESTEEM’

OXYTOCIN

‘Social Network & Love Hormone’

ENDORPHIN

‘Pain Relief Euphoria’