Does the brain chemistry affect happiness? Many scientist say yes- though they're not sure exactly why. Although endorphins have become known a happy hormonethey're far from being considered the only feel good brain chemicals. According to a neuroscientist, neurotransmitters are strong painkillers, and we do feel good when their levels increase after exercise. There are short-term ways to boost happiness. A Ph.D. found that eating carbohydrates (say pasta) can relieve stress and induce sleep. Furthermore, it maybe the brain's way of medicating itself.

Happiness is a skill not an acquisition

We do not experience happiness because of what we get. We experience happiness because of how we live each moment. It is a skill, an ability we must master, just like learning how to be a good painter, or an excellent athlete. Having a tennis racket and a ball does not make us a tennis player. Knowing how to play does. According to a psychologist, if you can't be happy now, with what you have and who you are, you will not be happy when you get what you think you want. Having more money or more recreation will make your life easier-but it will not make you happy because it can't. Only you can do that by learning to live with more real moments.

Quote about happiness

Happiness quote

Quotes on happy life

Real moment

According to an internationally recognized expert on relationship all real moments have at least three elements of experience that need to be present:

Consciousness. What is consciousness. Real moments occur only when you are consciously and completely experiencing where you are, what you are doing, and how you are feeling. Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson or delight that moment has to offer.
Connection. Real moments are always moments when you made an emotional connection between yourself and something or someone else. It might be a connection between you and God, you and loved one, or you and a stranger. They are moments in which the usual boundaries that appear to separate us from one another are penetrated, and in that connection, a kind of magic occurs.
Surrender meaning. You allow real moments to happen when you totally surrender into whatever you are experiencing, and let go of trying to be in control. In short you are fully embracing rather than resisting, the experience of the moment. It is impossible to have a real moments when you are trying to control or resist a situation or emotion.

Quote about happiness

Children are master of creating real moments. They haven't yet learned to postpone joy, so they practice it as much as possible! They are totally alive in the moment.

Source:

Anonymous, "Difference Between Happiness and Satisfaction." Women's Journal Aug.09

De Angelis, Barbara Ph.D. "Happiness is a Skill Not an Acquisition." Women's Journal 8 Aug. 98