If you’ve ever wondered why it seems so hard to be positive despite mantras, afffirmations and meditations, then do we have the Science of Positivity Show for you!
Today I’ll be talking with Loretta Breuning, PhD, Professor Emerita of Management at California State University Easy Bay, and author of several fantastic books on Happiness including Habits of a Happy Brain and her latest, the Science of Positivity.
And that’s just what we’ll be talking about today, how to stop negative thought patterns by changing your brain chemistry.
That plus we’ll talk about elephants and watering holes, monkeys and spinach, birthday cakes for pacaderms, what wildlife documentaries and love songs have in common, why mandrills have it better than baboons, what in the world’s the dogpoop rule, and what you need to do when another monkey’s eyeing your banana.
Science of Positivity Self-Help and Self-Improvement Topics Include:
- How to have great luck parking!
- How positivity relates to our childhoods.
- How Nature videos, particularly from David Attenborough can help us crank up the positivity
- How did Dr. Breuning get into Positive Psychology
- Why do our brains go negative because our brains expect negativity to feel good
- What’s the benefit of saying “the world is going to hell in a handbasket”
- What does dopamine have to do with negativity
- Why getting disappointed can make us happy
- What are the happy chemicals and how do they effect us?
- Why are we trying to be first by being last
- What does cortisol have to do with the extreme desire that “I’ve gotta do something”
- Why we want to focus on something dangerous, no matter how far away it is
- Why we feel it’s important to scare ourselves with the evening news
- What moral superiority has to do with the news
- Why looking for negativity makes us feel so good, and what that’s really doing to us
- What’s the dog pool rule?
- What’s it mean to habituate and how does this effect me?
- What happens when you give an elephant a giant birthday cake
- What are habits of a happy brain
- How we take the negatives and turn them into positives
- How to keep the negativity from coming up on autopilot (particularly with politics)
- What’s the difference between gratitude and positivity exercises
- Once we recognize we’re going negative, what do we do?
- Why you want to watch Mark Marin –
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- What is the movie October Sky?
Dr. Loretta Breuning on How to Find Happiness & Discard Negativity Thru the Science of Positivity! Health | Inspiration | Motivation | Spiritual | Spirituality | Meditation | Inspirational | Motivational | Self-Improvement | Self-Help | Inspire
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