Not as happy after stressful time? Here's why.
Channel: Dr. Anne White
Date: 2021-12-16

The reason that you're not as happy as you used to be, can all be explained by science. The science of the brain is called the science of neuroplasticity.  In this video, I'll tell you why you're not as happy after a stressful period of time and what you can do to fix it.

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Pandemics are not fun. Pandemics are inherently stressful.  Science of neuroplasticity says every single thought that you think wires your brain. It also says -  this is way simplified -  there are  distinct pathways for negative emotions and positive emotions and scientific studies call it negative effect and positive effect.  But for our purposes, let's call it negative emotions and positive emotions. Now some of the brain regions do overlap with those emotions, but in the studies, the negative emotions had a few brain regions that were specific to the negativity and the positive emotions had a few regions that were specific to the positivity.

Every single thought you think wires your brain. So it's either going to wire the pathways in the negativity section or the pathways in the positivity section. 
Every single thought will wire your brain or strengthen those pathways. So you're either strengthening the negative or the positive. I do know this is an oversimplification. All I want you to get here is the concept. And then we'll get into the reason you're not as happy. So over a stressful period of time, what thoughts are you thinking?

Well, you're thinking the negative thoughts. You're thinking the stressful thoughts. Why are stressful thoughts negative? Because inherent in our survival mechanism is worst case scenario. When we're stressed, when we encounter a stressful situation, we have to consider all of the worst case scenarios in order to survive.

Don't we? But what happens is in a very, very stressful period, we're doing that constantly. We don't need to survive life every day, but when those pathways get wired, so now we have the stress pathways strengthened. And we're starting to get the negative pathways strengthened, right? Because worst case scenario is never positive.

So our brain is then becoming more and more and more stressed because those pathways are strengthened. And I will talk about the how and why of the science in other videos I want you to get the main concept today. So with the stressful thoughts and the worst case scenario and negative thinking, You're building your brain to be more stressed and negative.

I.E. more stressed than happy. That's why after a stressful period of time, you're less happy. And I don't know if you're like me. I went through a very, very, very stressful period and I found that my thoughts were highly negative.

Because another law of neuroplasticity is that the thought will always go down the path of least resistance. If you have more stress and negative neural pathways built and strengthened in your brain than the positive ones, stress is always going to dominate.
 what I found for me personally, was I needed a systematic technique in order to build those calm and happy pathways. And I have that in my Calm Code program and this isn't an advertisement, it is meant to help people because I have something that can help people.

Every single thought that you think matters. So if you want to concentrate on thinking positive thoughts, and if you're able to restructure your brain that way, do it and go for it.

I'm giving you the concepts. If you want additional help with it, I can give additional help too. But what's important to me is that people don't live in the space that I know is not fun. It's really not fun. I've been there. I know. And thank you for joining me today. I love seeing you here. I would love to hear what you think, your thoughts on the video, even if you don't agree with me, that's okay.
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