How your hormones make you happy.
Happiness is entrenched in natural, chemical and hormonal actions in your brain. These actions developed long before humans evolved. There are a number of structures in our brain, which collectively are known as the limbic system. We share this system with many members of the animal kingdom. These structures manage the chemicals and hormones responsible for our happiness.
Our happy hormones are dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. They are released each time we recognise something that might be good for our survival. Whenever we see, smell, hear or touch something, the limbic makes a super quick decision about it. We decide if that something deserves a surge of happy hormones.
Our limbic system’s decisions can be confusing sometimes. It’s hard to understand why one thing can make us happy when others don’t. You can begin to understand your limbic system by understanding how your happy chemicals work.
Dopamine
This chemical rewards you for seeking out your desires. It also helps you combat physical pain. Dopamine is released when you expect a reward, and it’s what motivates you to keep seeking them. It is a key hormone in helping you to achieve your goals.
Your subconscious mind is always looking for rewards or goals. When it finds one, dopamine motivates you to take action go for it and helps you manage the energy it takes to get it.
Oxytocin
Oxytocin rewards you for building friendships and social alliances. The happy feeling you get when you feel you can confide in or trust another person is due to oxytocin release in your brain. Every experience of belonging or connection triggers oxytocin.
Oxytocin is also important for bonding. When a child is born, oxytocin is released in its mother’s brain, motivating her to look after her newborn. Oxytocin also flows in the child’s brain, building the attachment between parent and child. Oxytocin is also known as the love hormone produced in larger quantities by women than by men during sexual bonding and orgasm.
Serotonin
Seratonin can be blamed for the drive of power-hungry politicians. It is the chemical that rewards us when we assert our position by dominating others. Our brain rewards us whenever we feel respected in our position in the social hierarchy. Unfortunately, despite attempts to promote fairness, equality and kindness in modern society, we still feel good when we occupy positions of power and dominance. This can explain why we like to win.
Why we can’t just be happy with what we have?
Habituation is the diminishing of an innate response to a frequently repeated stimulus. It evolved to promote survival. Sitting around being happy with what you’ve got doesn’t help you survive. We are driven to go out looking for new ways to get our happy hormones flowing. This is why humans respond well to defined goals that have an accompanying action plan that includes rewards. That is why I designed the Happy Life Goals program.
Kinesiology can help balance your hormones.
Kinesiology can be used as a tool to identify and reduce stress and blockages that exist within the hormonal system. The chakras provide a direct connection to the functioning of the endocrine glands and balancing the energy of these centres can have an effect on your hormonal expression. Kinesiology can also determine what lifestyle and dietary changes need to be made to get your hormones balanced.
Using kinesiology in combination with Nutrition, Yoga, Counselling, Dreamwork, Chinese medicine and the Chakra system can help to balance body and mind.
Suggested treatment plan.
I recommend:
- An initial 90 minute kinesiology consultation followed by 3 - 5 standard consultations 1 -2 weeks apart.
- Further follow-up standard consultations should be spaced between 2 -4 weeks apart or booked as needed.
Kristen Ross founded Affinity Wellness in 2007 and since has helped hundreds of clients to unlock their Inner Guidance, Unleash their potential and create lives they love.
With a history in the management of artists. Kristen had the opportunity to help guide the careers of many professional actors and artists, helping others thrive personally and professionally by connecting to their intuition and inner compass, this led her to study healing modalities such as kinesiology and counselling to enhance her work as a soul empowerment guide.
Kristen combines a striking combination of energy healing (kinesiology), counselling, coaching, dreamwork, meditation and yogic medicine practices to tap into the many facets of the self, mind, body and soul and release the layers that block her clients from accessing their intuition and self-love.
She believes that your life is your spiritual practice and that every decision you make is a part of your journey towards peace, power and enlightenment.
Everything you create and achieve comes from your ability to love and accept yourself and to do that you must engage in inner work.
Kristen currently runs a private online practice servicing individuals across Australia, New Zealand and the UK based in Melbourne, Australia.
