Without it, they would not have had the stamina necessary to bring back food for their family. It gave our ancestors a competitive advantage when hunting their next meal.
Known in the fitness industry as "the runner's high", endorphin provides the ability to work hard through hard labour. Dopamine will reward you along the way and keep you on track. If procrastination and self-doubt are present, chunk down your goal into smaller steps and keep track of your progress. When we do so, dopamine will support us in our journey. Hence, the importance of writing down and visualizing our goals. Being able to see our goal or imagine it will send us a feel-good hit that will help us keep going towards achieving it. We get a feel of the incentive power of dopamine when we make progress. It is a reward-motivated behaviour generator.
They help us accomplish and persevere.ĭopamine allows us the ability to focus, set goals and get things done. The selfish chemicals, dopamine and endorphin, give us short term rewards. When released in our brain, these good stress chemicals each play a different role. Wanting to repeat a behaviour that makes us feel good is the source of our motivation. Which one is which? These feel good neurotransmitters are essential for our survival. Watch the video or read the transcript below to learn more.ĭopamine, Oxytocin, Serotonin, Endorphin.
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Do you like to feeeeeeeel goooooood? I often get questions on these feel-good chemicals how they happen in the brain and how to generate more of them in a healthy way, so that they can support you as you work towards your goals.
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