The most successful storytellers often focus listeners’ minds on a single important idea and they take no longer than a 30-second to forge an emotional connection. Story telling can be effective if and only if both teller and listeners are in happy mood Happiness is just a neurochemical spurt of four different brain chemicals WE need all of them to feel good.

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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. Story Telling
 Storytelling may seem like an old-fashioned tool yet Life
happens in the narratives we tell one another.
 A story can go where quantitative analysis is denied
admission: our hearts.
 Data can persuade people, but it doesn’t inspire them to
act
 We need to wrap our vision in a story that fires the
imagination and stirs the soul.
 It has physiological and psychological effect
 Strategic storytelling has also been enlisted to change
attitudes and behaviors.
 Penn State College of Medicine researchers found that medical students ‘
attitudes about dementia patients, who are perceived as difficult to
treat, improved substantially after students participated in
storytelling exercises that made them more sympathetic to their
patients’ conditions.

3. Story Telling….
 Strategic storytelling has also been enlisted…..s’ conditions.
 University of Massachusetts Medical School study found that
a storytelling approach has also been effective in
convincing populations at risk for hypertension to change
their behavior and reduce their blood pressure.
 The most successful storytellers often focus listeners’
minds on a single important idea and they take no longer
than a 30-second to forge an emotional connection.
 Story telling can be effective if and only if both teller and
listeners are in happy mood
 Happiness is just a neurochemical spurt of four different
brain chemicals
 WE need all of them to feel good.

4. Four Hormones which determine happiness (1.Endorphins)
 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.
 Touching hot stoves and running on a broken leg is due to release of
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

5. Four Hormones whih determine happiness (2. Dopamine)
 Dopamine happiness is triggered when you get a new reward.
 Accomplishment little and big releases various levels of
Dopamine.
 Appreciation for our work at the office or at home makes us feel
accomplished and good hence release of Dopamine.
 Rare appreciation and acknowledgement of work/effort of
housewives make them unhappy hence lack of released Dopamine .
 When we see a finish line, our brain releases dopamine.
 Once, we get a job, we buy a car/ house/gadgets etc indicating
release of Dopamine
 It's nature's reserve tank of energy.
 Dopamine keeps one going until he catches the prey he is stalking
 We keep running in Marathon / X country though frustrating due to
release of Dopamine.
 Continuous surge of dopamine depletes energy may ditch you when
needed
 We are evolved to save dopamine for those moments
when an important goal is within reach.

6. Four Hormones whih determine happiness (3. Serotonin)
 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 give back to others or to nature or to the society
 Even while providing useful information on the internet like writing
information blogs, answering peoples questions on Quora or sharing
through whatsapp, Facebook groups will generate Serotonin.
 That is because we will use our precious time to help other people via
our answers or articles.
 Serotonin system is a key player in our mood
 The vast majority of your serotonin is located outside your brain
 90% in Gut- Helps regulate motility and contractions
 8% in platelets -Aids in clotting
 1 -2% In Brain

7. Four Hormones whih determine happiness (3.
Serotonin)
 Brain serotonin function besides influencing our mood
 Can be further metabolized into melatonin, a key sleep hormone.
 Is involved in
 Appetite,
 Reward processes,
 Memory, and
 Learning.
 Additional Brain System to improve Mood are
 Inflammation,
 Neuroplasticity,
 Stress pathways
 Above can be modified through
 Lifestyle choices like
 Exercise,
 Diet,
 Stress mitigation, and
 Sleep.

8. Four Hormones whih determine happiness
(4. Oxytocin)
 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.
 Similarly, when we shake hands or put our arms around
someone's shoulders, various amounts of Oxytocin is

9. 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.

10. 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 grooming 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 endorphins, or their dopamine, or their

11. Conclusion
 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