Turns out that Oxytocin – the same hormone given to women to speed up child birth – organically boosts the brain’s capacity for trust, generosity, empathy, connection and bonding with other people. Relationships with other people is one of the primary determinants of our feelings of happiness (as well as statistically significant in [...]
Achieving a goal we set for ourselves makes us feel better. But will we be happier then, some time in the future when we master the challenge we have set for ourselves?
For the left-brained, analytical, thinking over feeling among us – myself included along with most of my clients – it may come as a bit of a surprise that there is actually a formula, a scientific and well researched formula, for that sometimes aloof and elusive state we refer to as "happiness." Not "the secret" [...]
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