With all the dissension the country in the world is experiencing, how does one maintain a state of calm and inner peace? In this episode, I offer some suggestions as well as explaining how brain chemicals affect our inner world and how we can regulate them.
Highlights
- Any time you experience the feeling of love, your brain releases oxytocin, which is known as the love chemical, and it has a healing effect on the body.
- When you feel stress or anything negative, cortisol is released, which has a deleterious effect on the body because it causes inflammation.
- The idea is to minimize cortisol and maximize oxytocin.
- Chronic diseases are affected by cortisol.
- Every time you feel annoyed or angry, you are releasing cortisol.
- Gratitude practices help you develop a oxytocin habit.
- Every time you get angry or upset, that adds inflammation to your system, especially if the feelings are ongoing rather than momentary.
- You have the ability to change your brain chemical releases by changing your emotional habits.
- Everything about your life will get better when you move from the cortisol space to the oxytocin space.
- When you consciously develop an attitude of love and peace, I guarantee that your life will get better.
- If you haven’t dealt with your childhood wounds it is going to affect your life outcomes.
- Because your business and life outcomes are an extension of you, you will do better when you are in a more positive space.
- When dealing with other people, if I’m always looking for our similarities rather than our differences, I am actually missing something.
- Embracing our differences allows for expansion.
- The place to start is for you to learn how to love yourself because when you love yourself, it’s easier for you to love and accept other people.
- I suggest that you work on altering your thought patterns and your emotional habits and accepting who and where you are.
Links
The Search for Connection
The Anatomy of Peace
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