This is the recipe to have a happy brain

What is happiness for you? Complicated to define, right? For some it can be to be in peace with yourself, while for others it is to be able to see a final model or have the current bill full of zeros. There will also be people who feel happy with little and who never do it, even if it has everything. «We are constantly bombed by moments of supposed happiness. In social networks we only see smiling faces, lives in which everyone seems to be happy. It does not seem bad that that side of people is shown because joy is spread, but we must also be aware that it is just a face of the many we have. For me, the word happiness generates a lot of pressure, “says Sara Teller, Physics and a doctor in neuroscience of the University of Barcelona (UB).

For the scientific spread Ferran -cases, “the secret of that emotional good that we all strive is in balance.” And he calls himself as an example. «When I finally succeeded in overcoming the fear crises I had fifteen years ago, I felt so powerful that I looked the winner in everything and I started to feel happiness every second of my life. It is true that I won in self -image and safety, but from there to be happy, there is a long stretch. Among other things because it is impossible, ‘reasons the co -author of the book’ The Brain of Happy People ‘(ed. Grijalbo), in which he explains with Sara Teller how you can overcome fear with the help of neuroscience. «Let’s say that if you don’t want to know what you won’t know.

That constant search for happiness in absolute terms often leads to frustration and discouragement. «If someone wants a chalet in Miami and manages to have a chalet in Miami, he is happy. But if someone wants a final model Ferrari and only gets a second utility, he understands and assimilates it as a loss. Happiness does not understand if we have a lot of money, health or more friends. It previously depends on the difference between what I want to happen and what I really have. Conclusion: It is easier to be happy as you need less, ”says Sara Teller, who has worked out a sort of decalogue with Ferran Cases as a recipe book to get a long -standing happy brain for so long. And the first ingredient that they propose ‘100 grams of acceptance of the present’. That standing in which we feel happy».

Explains the psychiatrist Rosa Molina in her book ‘A Mind With Much Body’ (Ed. Paidós) that not only produce a whole series of chemical and hormonal changes in our bodies, but also change our immune system. «We go for an accelerated life. In a sense we generate stress spotlights who deduct the quality of life and then look for new needs. It is an endless loop. We go to the car or electric scooter instead of walking and then we signed up for the gym to practice. We are able to be alone with ourselves and to compensate for the stress that generates ourselves, we sign up for relaxation classes. This is the era of multitasking. We do ten things at the same time and after we want our brains to relax and go out to sleep as if it were a switch. It will be no, “argues the psychiatrist who specializes in clinical neuroscience.

To dare!

The following ingredient includes one of the fashion words: ‘a pinch of resilience’. Personality is exactly what makes every individual unique. And in that you can distinguish between temperament (40%) – for a genetic origin and you are usually more or less stable throughout life – and character (60%), which can be controlled and forged through the years through the lived experiences. “You see that you have more possibilities of change than sustainability,” says Sara Teller.

We continue with the recipe to have a happy brain with ‘two cups of identity’. «That 60% margin that we have to form our character because of the things we do is able to form our brains on the day to day thanks to neuronal plasticity. By repeating the same patterns again (worries, fear, fear, fear …) always makes the same neurochemia in our body and in the end we get addicted to it. Try to adjust your beliefs, turn your thoughts into positive and even change your identity. The abandonment and breaking of this vicious circle is possible, “coincides experts together.

Another ingredient that should not be missing is daring. «The more routine your environment and your experiences, the more you will always experience the same memories and sensations. Your mind will be your own prison. Salt from that state. If you get up in the morning and you have not planned anything, you will be looking for an excuse not to do or postpone what to do. Better programming, mark an hour and a place. Make a pattern. If you do not make any changes to your routines, you will not evolve ». And that there is no lack of humor, empathy and a pinch of love. “Connecting to others is the best natural anti -inflammatory that we can have.”