The Neuroscience of HappYness - Part 7 “The Bucket List” - is it really useful? (Saturday, 25th May 2019) Reading time: approximately 4 minutes (644 words) Many people keep referring to a "bucket list" and many take pride in crossing items off from it. I never thought much of it initially. As is the norm lately though, I started thinking a little more about it. And asked, "Is it really useful? What does it really do to people?" And it led to my obtaining a different perspecti

The Neuroscience of HappYness - Part 6 Good Stress, or EUSTRESS! (Part B): (Saturday, 18th May 2019) Reading time: Approximately 5 minutes (1054 words) The word “eustress” is the combination of two words – “eu” meaning good, and “stress” – so eustress simply means “Good stress.” And here it would be very useful to remember what Shakespeare mentions in Hamlet: 'tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. since nothing is really good or

The Neuroscience of HappYness - Part 5 Part A of Stress, or more accurately, DISTRESS! (Saturday, 11th May 2019) Reading time approximately 5 minutes Continuing from Part 4, how do you ensure that you do not lose brain cells? The common thinking is that stress is the biggest lifestyle ailment. That stress kills brain cells, damages DNA, makes one age faster, and it even kills people. I have penned a few articles earlier that stress is the most common cause of all human a

The Neuroscience of HappYness – Part 4 The Amazing Human Brain! (Saturday, 4th May 2019) Reading time: Approximately 5 minutes HappYness is a slightly dicey subject - it means different things to people. HappYness is very personal. And most likely that the manner in which one perceives and experiences events in their lives might have a bearing on their level of HappYness. We make sense of the world, through our experiences - within the brain. Our consciousness of ourselves is