Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Less Stress, more happy

Some prescription medication, makes you feel better by raising your seritonin and dopamine levels. These are you happy chemicals. Well there is a way to raise these chemical levels in a natural way and it's SO easy to do. Don't do it while driving, but if you are sitting at your office desk, or feeling stress in most any situation, try this.

Put a big ole smile on your face. A smile that reaches from ear to ear. Now, hold that smile and look up to the ceiling or sky. Hold it. Now, put your arms way out to both sides, like an airplane. Hold that pose (arms out, smile, head up) for a few seconds. This will activate you  natural seritonin, dopamine, and adrenaline chemicals and take you to that happy place. Another way to do this is to take a pen and put it crossways in your mouth and bite down on it.  Not hard, just enough to hold it in place. Then smile from ear to ear, the biggest smile you can muster with that pen in your mouth. Hold that for a few seconds. You will feel the shift away from stress and to that happy place. Try it.

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