Habits Of a Happy Brain

A person’s brain produces four substances, or “happy chemicals,” that dictate how experiences make that person feel. These happy chemicals – dopamine, endorphin, oxytocin and serotonin -- create good feelings that cause people to build neural pathways, but when they repeat those pathways over and over the good feelings diminish. The key to sustained happiness is learning to form new pathways that will stimulate happy chemicals and create new good feelings.