The happy brain

What makes you happy today may not make you happy tomorrow; so any relationship, even the most solid ones, needs time and effort to continue. Fortunately, because it is with someone you love, this time and effort can be rewarding and can bring you happiness. Simply, you cannot point to something you dislike and decisively say it is bad; it may be so for you because your brain has been shaped in a way that makes you see the thing as disgusting. But other people have different brains. They are not you. Do you want to know where happiness comes from? Well, what is happiness? It is a feeling, or emotion, or mood, or mental state, or something like that. Define it however you want, but it will be very difficult for you to deny that it is something our brains produce essentially. Now remember the brain, despite its amazing development and complexity, remains an organ of the body, not only affected by things that come from the surrounding world around our heads, but also owing thanks to what happens inside our bodies: hormones, blood supply, oxygen levels. You could say that our homes make us happy in different ways... isn’t that right? Is it just the feeling of completing a task or an unpleasant series of events when we reach our homes’ doorstep? Or is there something related to the home that stimulates positive feelings in our brains? What do you think happens there? Studies indicate that people can get used even to electric shocks, as long as they are expected and relatively moderate. Habituation is an influential process, meaning the brain immediately focuses on any sudden change in the situation around us, but if things stabilize and nothing else important happens, the brain will lose interest.