Happiness is just a neurochemical spurt. Four different brain chemicals create happy feelings, and you need all of them to feel good. You miss out when you rely on one or two old familiar ways of triggering your happy chemicals. You can enjoy a balanced happy chemical diet if you know the distinct kind of happiness each brain chemical evolved for

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Four Types of Happiness given by Nature
A balanced diet of happy chemicals nourishes your brain
Ref- Loretta G. Breuning Ph.D.

2. Introduction
 Happiness is just a neurochemical spurt.
 Four different brain chemicals create happy feelings, and you
need all of them to feel good.
 You miss out when you rely on one or two old familiar ways of
triggering your happy chemicals.
 You can enjoy a balanced happy chemical diet if you know the
distinct kind of happiness each brain chemical evolved for

3. Happiness and story Telling depends on our Hormones
 Story telling can be effective if and only if both teller and listeners are in
happy mood
 There are four hormones which determine a human's happiness -
 1. Endorphins happiness is triggered by physical pain.
 The body's natural morphine masks pain, which allowed our
ancestors to run from predators when injured.
 Humans experience endorphin as euphoria, but it did not evolve
to trigger a constant feeling of joy.
 You would touch hot stoves and run on a broken leg if your brain
were always releasing endorphins.
 Nature saves them for moments when they help you do what's
necessary to survive.
 This hormone helps the body cope with the pain of exercising.
 We then enjoy exercising because these Endorphins will make us happy.
 Laughter is another good way of generating Endorphins.
 We need to spend 30 minutes exercising every day, read or watch
funny stuff to get our day's dose of Endorphins

4. Happiness and story Telling depends on our Hormones
 2. Dopamine happiness is triggered when you get a new reward.
 In our journey of life, we accomplish many little and big tasks, it
releases various levels of Dopamine.
 When we get appreciated for our work at the office or at home, we
feel accomplished and good, that is because it releases Dopamine.
 This also explains why most housewives are unhappy since they
rarely get acknowledged or appreciated for their work.
 When you see a finish line, your brain releases dopamine.
 Once, we get a job, we buy a car, a house, the latest gadgets, a new
house so forth.
 In each instance, it releases Dopamine and we become happy.
 Now, do we realize why we become happy when we shop?
 It's nature's reserve tank of energy.
 Dopamine keeps you going until you catch the prey you've been stalking,
even when the chase is long and frustrating.
 If you surged with dopamine all the time, your energy would be depleted
when you really needed it.
 We evolved to save dopamine for those moments when an important

5. Happiness and story Telling depends
on our Hormones
 3. Serotonin happiness is triggered when you feel
important.
 Animals release serotonin when they dominate a
resource.
 Their serotonin falls when they cede a resource to avoid
conflict.
 Being one-up feels good, but conflict can cause painful
injuries.
 The brain is constantly analyzing information to balance
the risk of pain against the satisfaction of winning.
 It is released when we act in a way that benefits others.
 When we transcend ourselves and give back to others
or to nature or to the society, it releases Serotonin.
 Even, providing useful information on the internet like
writing information blogs, answering peoples questions on
Quora or sharing through whatsapp, Facebook groups
will generate Serotonin.

6. Happiness and story Telling depends
on our Hormones
 4. Oxytocin happiness is triggered when we trust
those around us.
 Oxytocin is associated with pleasant feelings and
close bonds, but it has also been linked to social
prejudice.
 It promotes bonding between mother and child, and
between sex partners.
 It's stimulated when you're with a group of like-minded
people, or when you get a massage.
 But we did not evolved to feel oxytocin happiness all
the time because there's no survival value in trusting
people who are not trustworthy.
 It is released when we become close to other human
beings.
 When we hug our friends or family Oxytocin is released.
 The "Jadoo Ki Jhappi" from Munnabhai does really
work.

7. Happiness and story Telling depends
on our Hormones
 So to be happy
 We have to exercise every day to get Endorphins,
 We have to accomplish little goals and get Dopamine,
 We need to be nice to others to get Serotonin and
 Finally hug our kids, friends, and families to get Oxytocin and we
will be happy.
 When we are happy, we can deal with our challenges and
problems better.
 Now, we can understand why we need to hug a child who has a
bad mood.
 So to make your child more and more happy day by day …
 1.Motivate him to play on the ground : Endorphins.
 2. Appreciate your child for his small big achievements :
Dopamine.
 3.Inculcate sharing habit through you to your child :

8. Conclusion
 Each of the happy chemicals evolved to do a job.
 They work by making you feel good, which motivates you to go after
whatever triggered them.
 You have inherited a brain that motivates you to go toward anything that
promotes the survival of your DNA.
 Sometimes you stumble on happiness.
 When an ape accidentally stumbles on a luscious fruit tree, its brain
surges with dopamine. That creates memory, which helps the ape find the
tree in the future.
 Apes invest time teasing termites out of a mound, and it stimulates their
dopamine.
 New rewards trigger dopamine whether the rewards came by
accident or with sustained effort.
 The happy chemicals feel so good that we use our big cortex to figure out
how to get more.
 Apes negotiate groomings with each other, and it stimulates their
oxytocin.
 Apes dominate their troop-mates when they think they can get away with
it, which stimulates their serotonin.
 Apes are not known to hurt themselves in order to get an endorphin
high.
 People do all kinds of things once they find that it stimulates their

9. Conclusion
 Sometimes it works.
 But the brain only releases happy chemicals in limited bursts for
specific aims.
 It did not evolve to release them all the time.
 If happy chemicals flowed all the time, they could not do their jobs.
 When your happy chemicals dip, however, you notice. Something
feels wrong.
 Nothing is wrong.
 Your happy chemicals evolved to ebb and flow.
 But if you attend to this feeling that something is wrong, it can preoccupy
you.
 Your cortex will scan the environment for evidence that something is, in
fact, wrong.
 And it will find evidence to confirm that feeling.
 If you expect all the happy chemicals all the time, you're going to be
disappointed.
 And if you focus on that disappointment, you wire your brain to see the
world through that lens